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Censored films
- Psycho (1960 film)Paramount refused to fund Hitchcock's Psycho, so he financed the 1960 film himself. He used his television crew.
- A Clockwork Orange (film)Warner Bros. pulled the film A Clockwork Orange from British cinemas in 1973. Kubrick himself requested it.
- Ben-Hur (1959 film)MGM bet its future on Ben-Hur, a 1959 epic whose budget more than doubled to $15.175 million.
- Oppenheimer (film)The teaser for the film Oppenheimer, released on the 28th of July 2022, carried a live countdown to 5:29 a.m. Mountain time on the 16th of July 2023. That hour marked the 78th anniversary of the first detonation of an atomic weapon.…
- HellraiserHellraiser was made by a first-time director on under a million dollars. It grossed $30 million worldwide.
- Fight ClubFight Club hid its twist by never filming Tyler Durden in two-shots with groups of people.
- Star Wars: The Rise of SkywalkerJohn Boyega left a Rise of Skywalker script in a hotel room, and it turned up on eBay.
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-VerseSpider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, the 2023 animated film about the teenage hero Miles Morales, runs 140 minutes. That makes it the longest animated film ever produced by an American studio, edging past Consuming Spirits from 2012. Its…
- Wicked (2024 film)Wicked, the 2024 musical fantasy film directed by Jon M. Chu, drew some unwelcome aerial visitors early in production. Paparazzi flew over the Munchkinland set in Ivinghoe, England, by hang glider, with GoPro cameras strapped to their…
- Paths of GloryBy his own account, Kirk Douglas threw a script across a room over the ending of Paths of Glory.
- Everything Everywhere All at OnceEverything Everywhere All at Once began as a script for a male lead, written with Jackie Chan in mind.
- The Birth of a NationThe Birth of a Nation was screened at the White House in 1915. The next night, the Supreme Court cheered it too.
- Eyes Wide ShutEyes Wide Shut, the last film Stanley Kubrick finished, holds the Guinness World Record for the longest continuous film shoot, at 400 days. During that stretch, a single scene of Tom Cruise walking through a door was filmed 95 times. The…
- Barbie (film)The film Barbie used up the world's remaining supply of one shade of pink paint. The shade was Pantone 219.
- Battleship PotemkinThe Odessa Steps massacre in Battleship Potemkin never happened. Ebert said that scarcely dims its power.
- DhurandharDhurandhar, a Hindi-language spy thriller written and directed by Aditya Dhar, runs for 214 minutes, which makes it one of the longest Indian films ever produced. Its story follows an undercover Indian agent inside the gangs and political…
- Dhurandhar: The RevengeDhurandhar: The Revenge, a 2026 Hindi-language spy thriller written and directed by Aditya Dhar, earned ₹75 crore before its official opening day had even begun. Paid preview shows on the evening of the 18th of March 2026 broke an Indian…