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Did You Know?

That the costume budget for Tron Legacy was $13 million and that one racer costume alone costs $60,000.

They could have saved a fortune and asked this guy to make them.

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Nicolas Cage!

This week sees the nationwide release of Bad Lieutenant, staring the particularly unique Nicolas Cage. In the past Mr Cage’s movies have been a bit hit & miss from the brilliant Kick Ass to the not so brilliant 8mm. He is without doubt an interesting fellow and in homage to the man we wanted to share 10 Cage based factolas with you, the movie lover. So in no particular order….

1.In Vampire’s Kiss he ate 3 live cockroaches (1 for each take)
2.He once owned a pet Octopus
3.He likes castles. In July of 2006 he bought the 500-year-old Schloss Neidstein in the Bavarian village of Etzelwang.
4.In 1997 he paid $500,000 for a Lamborghini built for Prince Ali-Reza Pahlavi, the Shan of Iran
5.He got Johnny Depp his first acting job.
6.He’s the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola
7.He suffers from vertigo
8.His stage is name taken from comic book character Luke Cage (he’s a big comic book fan)
9.He proposed to Patricia Arquette on the day he met her althoug she got scared and avoided him. They met again many years later and eventually got married
10.He’s a BIG fan of Elvis!

so there you are, you might have not some of that already, you might not have done. If you’re interested, Bad Lieutenant is great movie.

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Mickey Rourke Fact #1

To mark the imminent UK release of Iron Man 2, we’re celebrating the magnificent return to form of Mickey Rourke with 7 amazing facts that you may or may not know about the motorcycle loving ex-boxer over the next 7 days..

FACT # 1:Mickey Rourke’s dogs are generally referred to as chihuahuas however, some are not pure-bred. Loki, his most-publicized dog whom he described as “the love of my life,” was a chihuahua-terrier mix.

NB. this isn’t Loki, but it’s a nice hairpiece all the same. ..

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