ADVERTISEMENT

The film industry is certainly known for its share of surprises. Whether we’re talking about obscure movie Easter eggs or the greatest behind-the-scenes facts, there are plenty of secrets that are not visible to the naked eye. And they would probably stay hidden if not for cinema aficionados who seek to know the ins and outs of the business.

Enter Film Facts, a Twitter account that’s purely dedicated to sharing details about all things cinema. From thoughts shared by the cast and crew to giant props and torturous makeup processes, this page is the place to learn the lesser-known facts about the craft.

Bored Panda has collected some of the best posts from this account, so make sure to check them out below and upvote the most interesting ones. Lights! Camera! Action!

#3

Interesting-Movie-Cinema-Industry-Facts

Factsonfilm Report

Add photo comments
POST
donotreplytokjk avatar
Otter
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's something a lot of people don't understand about cancer, is that it can last for YEARS. There are some forms that will carry a person off in a matter of months, but others that can be fought for years as Boseman had to. I've even heard of people battling with hemotological cancers for 15-20 years. And a person with these cancers has to go on with their life the whole time, raising children and earning a living, maybe even having the kind of success he did, while dealing with cancer the whole time. We just never know what other people are going through.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu

It’s no surprise that there are so many cinema lovers who appreciate movies by watching them over and over again. Films have the magical power of pressing pause on our everyday problems and carrying us into distant worlds, full of the most interesting characters and fantastic scenarios. 

If you also consider yourself to be a true movie expert, you should definitely take a look at the Film Facts Twitter account. They take some of the best never-before-heard details about cinema and share them online with more than 251.6K of their followers. 

These tidbits of information are not only cool to know for your weekly trivia nights or for impressing your friends and family members. When you’re presented with a quick question, you need to be able to pull that information from your memory or try to connect the dots and think of a possible answer. Learning new things and being able to put them into context helps to keep your mind sharp and healthy.

#4

Interesting-Movie-Cinema-Industry-Facts

Factsonfilm Report

Add photo comments
POST
katarzynadrozd avatar
Katarzyna Drozd
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You forgot to mention she is a professional video editor, which makes a huge difference as a lot of experience and software knowledge is required for this job. From text it sounds like she never edited any film before

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
ADVERTISEMENT

Some people tend to dismiss learning new and interesting facts as a waste of time because today you can find any information you need with just a few Google searches. However, when a person is asked a trivia question that they know the answer to, they suddenly perk up and feel engaged. 

One of the reasons behind this is simply that answering a trivia question provides us with a thrill. “You get a rush or a neuroreward signal or a dopamine burst from winning,” John Kounios, Ph.D., professor of psychology at Drexel University in Pennsylvania, told Healthline

“I think whenever you’re challenged with a trivia question and you happen to know it, you get a rush. It’s sort of like gambling.”

ADVERTISEMENT
#9

Interesting-Movie-Cinema-Industry-Facts

Factsonfilm Report

Add photo comments
POST
anissaseghiri avatar
Nini
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Bet the douchbags who sent competent talented people to work on Shrek to punish them were mad af, their little power trip turned against them

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu

For anyone who’s wondering if you have to be smart on many different levels to be good at answering quiz questions, Kounios said that people aren’t necessarily better at trivia games just because they’re more educated. “Some people soak up facts,” he continued. “Plenty of people with a lot more education may not remember what they had for breakfast yesterday morning.”

ADVERTISEMENT

“In typical people, my observation, not backed up by any research, is that their interest in trivia is confined to topics that they are generally interested in,” the professor added. “So if a person is very interested in history, then they may either seek out history trivia, or they might just naturally pick it up in the course of learning about nontrivial aspects of history.”

#10

Interesting-Movie-Cinema-Industry-Facts

Factsonfilm Report

Add photo comments
POST
franziska-birk avatar
Francis
Community Member
2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i think i've found my new hero :D 19 ice cones! i want to try this..

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#11

Interesting-Movie-Cinema-Industry-Facts

Factsonfilm Report

Add photo comments
POST
donotreplytokjk avatar
Otter
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How can an actor carry on with a fight scene, when they're laughing?

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu

When it comes to films, learning new things about them can keep you motivated, confident, and always curious. So whether you’re a cinema expert or a novice, this Twitter account will definitely assist you in getting those brain cells tingling and gain some points in your next movie trivia quest.

#13

Interesting-Movie-Cinema-Industry-Facts

Factsonfilm Report

Add photo comments
POST
askrivan avatar
80 Van
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That was definitely a gamble. It was very possible that she would have felt even more attached to him after that encounter.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
ADVERTISEMENT
#18

Interesting-Movie-Cinema-Industry-Facts

Factsonfilm Report

#20

Interesting-Movie-Cinema-Industry-Facts

Factsonfilm Report

Add photo comments
POST
eppetot avatar
Eppe
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's been a while, but those damn onion cutting ninjas caught me by surprise...

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
ADVERTISEMENT
#28

Interesting-Movie-Cinema-Industry-Facts

Factsonfilm Report

Add photo comments
POST
troux avatar
Troux
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It IS a family emergency; both of his parents are dead!

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#30

Interesting-Movie-Cinema-Industry-Facts

Factsonfilm Report

Add photo comments
POST
donotreplytokjk avatar
Otter
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's the weird thing about Hollywood. Sometimes the payday for doing great work comes with your next job, not the one where you really excel.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#32

Interesting-Movie-Cinema-Industry-Facts

Factsonfilm Report

Add photo comments
POST
sykes2477 avatar
SykesDaMan
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You might also have met him as "Chad" (really) in the Matrix Resurrections movie.

View more commentsArrow down menu
#33

Interesting-Movie-Cinema-Industry-Facts

Factsonfilm Report

Add photo comments
POST
donotreplytokjk avatar
Otter
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That probably helped her performance. Maybe she even avoided talking to him, because she wanted to hold onto the fear, and not realize he was just another guy!

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#34

Interesting-Movie-Cinema-Industry-Facts

Factsonfilm Report

Add photo comments
POST
minirett avatar
Marette
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's a pity Mr Weinstein didn't use the sword to chop off his d**k.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
ADVERTISEMENT
See Also on Bored Panda
#42

Interesting-Movie-Cinema-Industry-Facts

Factsonfilm Report

Add photo comments
POST
noneanon avatar
Random Anon
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All natural fidget spinner or some other fidgety gizmo.

View more commentsArrow down menu
#43

Interesting-Movie-Cinema-Industry-Facts

Factsonfilm Report

Add photo comments
POST
franziska-eller avatar
Konpat
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Only in 'murica. Plenty of decent cops elsewhere. Thorough education does that.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#44

Interesting-Movie-Cinema-Industry-Facts

Factsonfilm Report

Add photo comments
POST
jaquar123 avatar
Kat O.
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I just can't stomach those movies. I don't think they're clever or funny.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
See Also on Bored Panda
#46

Interesting-Movie-Cinema-Industry-Facts

Factsonfilm Report

Add photo comments
POST
franziska-eller avatar
Konpat
Community Member
2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love it. It's so totally random. Chris Evans is hiding his beard...

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#47

Interesting-Movie-Cinema-Industry-Facts

Factsonfilm Report

Add photo comments
POST
askrivan avatar
80 Van
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That’s a coincidence. I have spent months at a time not understanding that movie too.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#49

Interesting-Movie-Cinema-Industry-Facts

Factsonfilm Report

Add photo comments
POST
nadia_monteira avatar
Nadia Monteira
Community Member
2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Disgusting amount of money. Hollywood has lost touch with reality and real people money

kingkashue avatar
King Kashue
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As someone else wrote: "This is the moment they knew they needed to kill off Tony Stark."

jaquar123 avatar
Kat O.
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The amount celebrities are paid is absolutely ridiculous.

anissaseghiri avatar
Nini
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Without him there would be no MCU, he was one of the person who had a final say in the decision of casting of Tom Holland as Spider Man and we've seen how that ended with No Way Home grossing over 1B in 2 weeks which never happened for any other movie beside Avengers End Game. We were all sick and tired or reboots especially the Spiderman ones so RDJ being IN the 1st installment of the Spiderman "Home" trilogy, with his star power and influence is a big deal. Also don't forget that Terrence Howard was paid 4M to play Rodhey in Iron Man I and RDJ ONLY 500K. And that technically the better paid actor pro ratio in the MCU was (is?) Paul Bettany for being the voice of JARVIS and then Vision.

kaching12 avatar
Yort
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There are people who literally can’t afford both electricity and water in their own homes who work hard jobs every day, getting paid $10 million for what was probably one day of work is absolute disgusting no matter who it is.

Load More Replies...
james_croft avatar
Nimitz
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Almost as good as Mark Hamil being paid $5 mill for taking off his hood at the end of The Force Awakens.

rc_1 avatar
drummerkramer avatar
Bob Belcher
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If all of Hollywood did that, we could probably end world hunger and homelessness. It always annoys me how much they make and then they do commercials for WWF or Childerns hospitals. You know they "donate their time" on those so they can take it as a tax cut.

Load More Replies...
mariele_s avatar
Mariele Scherzinger
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Please tell me he donated 70% of that amount to cancer research. (see #1)

maraadams avatar
Ironass
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Pretty sure cevans was paid more. for one minute. (also maybe marvel is trying to make up for Iron Man(2008)

fmc avatar
Niall Mac Iomera
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This should be illegal. You could be curing cancer or something. This is pure evil.

jmchoto avatar
Jo Choto
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Such a waste. I'd like to think these guys give most of it away to charity, but I know they don't.

maiseymyles avatar
Maisey Myles
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don't get me started but what about drug makers spending millions on advertising and tv commercials. Why not use that wasted money on actual patients that can't afford them

harrylui avatar
Harry Lui
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

8 minutes of screen time doesn't mean 8 minutes of work time.

nazdapokmov avatar
Nazda Pokmov
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What makes him so special???? Still trying to figure that amount out.....

cecilyholland167 avatar
Cecily Holland
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

About the same they paid Hugh Jackman to tell 2 of them to eff off in one of the Xmen films

dremosley avatar
Dre Mosley
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's a multi billion dollar industry, just like sports in the US, they can afford to pay it. It is what it is.

kaching12 avatar
Yort
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But then they don’t pay the people who actually make the movie - the editors, the writers, the sound guys, the camera guys - much at all. The people who actually worked on that entire movie didn’t get paid even 1/20th of that. They pay the actors exorbitant amounts of money while stuffing all the people who are responsible for the movie actually looking good.

Load More Replies...
View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#52

Interesting-Movie-Cinema-Industry-Facts

Factsonfilm Report

Add photo comments
POST
jaquar123 avatar
Kat O.
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As much as I dislike Tom Cruise, I admire his work ethic on films.

View more commentsArrow down menu

Note: this post originally had 119 images. It’s been shortened to the top 52 images based on user votes.