Licensing Nightmares
Film rights complications between studios meant Marvel Studios could not originally use this marvel superhero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
spiderman
Curious critters contractually dedicated to bring happiness into the world
Smiling Friends
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Gilligan's Island
This movie is the only non-western animated film to win an academy award for best animated feature
Spirited Away
The leading actors in this nostalgic sitcom made $1 million per episode in the final two seasons
Friends
This 80s coming-of-age comedy battled expensive music licensing & had to re-dub its iconic theme song by Joe Cocker for streaming
The wonder years
OCD ex-SFPD. It’s a jungle out there indeed
Monk
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Community
The original Micheal Myers mask was actually a modified version of a costume of this 1960s Canadian actor
William Shatner
It only took three days for this film adaptation to become the highest grossing in the Lionsgate Movies catalogue
The Hunger Games (2012)
The music rights for guest performers delayed home video releases of this 70s variety show for decades
Starbuck and Apollo were pilots, not a coffee shop and a god
Battlestar galactica
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The Andy Griffith show
The raw footage of this 1970s film that brought in real human corpses as props consists of over 1.2 million feet of film
Apocalypse Now
This actor portraying a popular villain earned over $160,000 per word in the screenplay dialogue of a 1980s action film
Jack Nicholson
To avoid interruptions in the broadcast of the original star wars trilogy, an agency in this country spliced beer commercials directly into the film (such as Palpatine levitating a beer can in ROTJ)
Chile
Cowboy karate and explosions, usually in slow motion
Walker, Texas Ranger
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Cheers
This lead actor of The Eiger Sanction was the last person to legally climb the Totem Pole in monument valley
Clint Eastwood
This Disney movie lost enough money that the company would not release another animated feature with a female lead for over two decades
Sleeping Beauty
This horror film is in the public domain because of a failure to include copyright notices on the prints meaning it may be freely distributed without a license
Night of the living dead
The sketch comedy showcase for the goofy lads across the pond, not the jungle
Monty Python's Flying Circus
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Ridley Scott used this band’s lighting equipment to shoot the alien egg chamber scene in Alien (1979)
The Who
This popular video game outpaced the first week box office earnings of the Lion King, released that same year.
Mortal Kombat II