According to Henry Fonda, Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in the West" (1968) ran four years at the same theater in Paris. The identical thing happened in Berlin. It was one of the all-time grossing pictures in Europe, South America, and Japan. But it was a big failure in the USA.
Audiences at home simply would not accept Henry Fonda shooting a helpless child in cold blood. The film may be seen on late-night television in the United States, but just as Fonda draws his gun, stations all over the country cut to commercials.
("Fonda My Life", Henry Fonda & Howard Teichmann, 1981)
P.S: Remembering the great American actor Henry Fonda on his 121st birthday!
This The Exorcist (1973) trailer was banned from theatres.
The original The Exorcist trailer was infamous for its fast flashing imagery, disturbing sound design, demonic and subliminal imagery that audiences of the 1970s found genuinely disturbing.
The trailer was pulled from circulation and has become one of the most controversial horror trailers of all time, after many theaters reportedly refused to show it, due to the fear, panic and discomfort reported by the viewers before screenings. #filmtwt
Javier Bardem speaks out in #Cannes on toxic masculinity:
"That problem also goes to Trump, Putin and Netanyahu... the big balls man saying 'my cock is bigger than yours and I'm going to bomb the shit out of you' is a f*cking male toxic behavior that is creating thousands of dead people."
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Behind-the-scenes of Terminator 3 (2003), the inflatable bladders used under Kristanna Loken’s costume for the chest expansion effect accidentally popped during testing, making her break character and laugh.
Before algorithms targetted demographics, we had films like Cocoon (1985). Septuagenarians, alien induced boners, Mahoney having otherworldly orgasms, aliens, life, death, gerascophobia, thanatophobia, abandoning grandchildren. Kids loved it, and they didn't even know why.
Voyager 1 is humanity’s most distant spacecraft.
But even after a million years, it will barely have scratched the surface of the galaxy.
Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 has been speeding away from Earth for 48 years. It now travels through interstellar space at about 38,000 miles per hour (61,000 km/h) – fast enough to circle the Earth in 40 minutes. Yet, space is so vast that this blistering speed barely makes a dent.
In one million years, Voyager 1 will cover about 330 trillion miles (530 trillion km). That sounds enormous – until you realize it’s only about 56 light-years. For comparison, the Milky Way is roughly 100,000 light-years across. After a million years, Voyager 1 won’t even have crossed one-tenth of one percent of our galaxy.
It will pass its first star encounter, a faint red dwarf called Gliese 445, in about 40,000 years – and then keep drifting silently onward. By then, its instruments will have long since gone dark, but the spacecraft itself, along with its golden record carrying sounds and images of Earth, will continue its lonely journey.
🚿On May 16, 1986, Bobby Ewing was revealed to be alive and showering in his ex-wife Pam's bathroom in the season nine finale of the CBS series, 'Dallas'