MoviesKevin Polowy'Half Baked' turns 20: Director Tamra Davis on exactly how baked everyone was during filming
Director Tamra Davis dropped by Yahoo Studios to commemorate the film's birthday on Facebook Live and insisted that it had been an extremely professional, extremely sober film production.
MoviesYahoo Movies UK10 Family Films With Really Dark Backstories
Lest you think filmmaking is all sunshine and lollipops, here are 10 reminders that showbusiness is an ugly business, and the family films which you hold dear to your heart were actually the cause of more than a little psychological scarring… ‘The Railway Children’ – The girl’s age was hushed up Casting producers on the 1970 children’s adventure 'The Railway Children’ liked actress Sally Thomsett’s audition for 11-year-old Phyllis so much, they were willing to overlook one fairly significant point – that she was actually 20 years old. Thomsett was three years old than her on-screen big sister, Jenny Agutter, but was treated like a child by crew members, who gave her sweeties for good behaviour. For starters, shooting on the movie very nearly led to tragedy, when Kym Karath, the actress playing Gretl, fell out of a boat and almost drowned – she couldn’t swim and Julie Andrews was unable to fetch her as planned. Andrews was disliked by co-star Christopher Plummer, who likened her presence to “being hit over the head with a big Valentine’s Day card every day”.
MoviesYahoo Movies UKWhy do all movie phone numbers start '555'?
It’s one of the strange things about making a movie: you can create entire worlds inside a computer and have winged dragons facing off against giant fire-breathing robots, but you can’t show someone dialling a real phone number on screen. Ever since the 1950s, when you see someone dial or recite a phone number, chances are it’ll start with the numbers 555.
MoviesYahoo Movies UKElf: 17 things you didn't know about the Will Ferrell classic
When it comes to Christmas movies, you’d have to be a hard-hearted creature not to have just the faintest whiff of affection for Jon Favreau’s ‘Elf’. - 25 things you might not know about The Hobbit - 2014’s best movie star photobombs - 13 mind-blowing Christmas movie facts Alongside veterans like James Caan, Bob Newhart and Ed Asner (and with a breakout role for Zooey Deschanel), Buddy’s love of Christmas is thoroughly infectious.
