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Remember these child stars? How did they turn out?

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Back in 1991, Steven Spielberg gave audiences an entirely new take on the story of Peter Pan with&nbsp;Hook. Robin Williams's adult version of Peter went toe-to-toe with the likes of Dustin Hoffman and Bob Hoskins, but some of the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-movie-characters-of-all-time?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">most memorable characters</a> in the film were the children who played the Lost Boys - as well as Peter's own children, Jack and Maggie.Over the decades since the movie's release, the kids who ran around fighting pirates and encouraging Peter Pan to fly have all done exactly what their characters insisted on never doing: they grew up. Those kids have gone on to have some rather fascinating careers - some remaining in Hollywood, and others going far, far away.&nbsp;Check out the list below and vote for the kids of the Hook cast who you think have changed the most.

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When there’s an award show, the focus is always on the award recipients. This makes sense, seeing as the whole point of something like the Emmy Awards, Grammy Awards, or Academy Awards is to celebrate an artist’s work. While that’s undoubtedly true, you can rarely have an <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/controversial-award-show-jokes/elle-tharp">award show</a> without a host, and over the years, hundreds, if not thousands, of them spread across various industries, handing out trophies and statues to the elite.While the awardees get to take home a statue of some kind, it’s undeniable that a fantastic host can sometimes steal the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/funniest-award-ceremony-jokes/elle-tharp">show</a>. This happens occasionally, and when a particular host does a spectacular job, they, too, deserve a standing ovation. Of the many award show hosts who’ve rocked a microphone on stage over the years, these deserve as much, if not more, praise than the awardees themselves.

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Behind The Scenes

Movies are a business like any other, typically involving hundreds of people working closely together for an extended period. All sorts of issues can flare up in situations like that, ranging from sexual harassment and bullying to recklessness and death. It’s an unfortunate fact of filmmaking that everything happening behind the scenes isn’t always apparent to the viewer.Still, when things get truly awful on set, they can lead to legal problems, and lawsuits are filed occasionally. These lawsuits can range in severity, with some concerning a person’s treatment by others, while severe accidents on set can result in terrible injuries and even death. Lawsuits like these tend to capture the attention of the moviegoing public, and these 12 are easily the worst to stem from BTS drama.

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Fairy Tales

When Walt Disney got his studio started on creating animated feature films, he looked to the public domain for stories he could adapt, landing on the tale of&nbsp;Snow White. This practice continues today as Disney’s animation studio adapts old folk tales into modern adaptations. Since Disney movies are marketed primarily toward children, a simple adaptation doesn’t often work. Western European folk tales aren’t as enamored with the concept of “happily ever after” as the Disney films they inspired.The real fairy tale endings are often dark and deadly, which doesn’t tend to entertain small children or serve for family-friendly theme park rides. Disney wisely altered the endings in most of its classic films, but you’d have to dive deep into Grimm’s Fairy Tales and other works to learn the true endings to these stories. Or, you could simply check them out below, as these are the original endings of some of Disney’s greatest movies.

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Ever since 1927’s&nbsp;The Jazz Singer,&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.sundance.org/blogs/a-brief-history-of-the-movie-musical/">Hollywood has been making movie musicals</a>. They probably would have arrived sooner had synchronized sound been an option, but the genre stayed there once the musical cat was finally out of the bag. Since then, there have been hundreds of amazing movie musicals, from&nbsp;Mary Poppins&nbsp;and The Sound of&nbsp;Music to Singin’ in the Rain and Grease.Musicals evolved as technology grew, and there are still new movie musicals released every year. Like any big project involving hundreds of people, it’s not uncommon for a controversy or two to pop up during production. These issues can cause serious problems for a musical’s bottom line, and they all make some pretty jarring headlines.Each of the movie musicals listed below had something crop up that offended someone or a group of people. It might have been culturally or racially insensitive, or a creative choice may have crossed the line of what’s decent. Whatever the issue, they all had controversies to deal with, so check them out and be sure to vote up the most interesting musical movie controversies out there.

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Fan Theories

Comic fans who love to root for misunderstood anti-heroes have had to wait years for the Thunderbolts to finally come together and join the MCU in their own movie.&nbsp;Thunderbolts*&nbsp;features many characters who have already appeared in the franchise, but they’ve yet to team up together, leaving fans wondering how it will all work out. From the outset, it doesn’t seem as if many of the characters on the team will get along, so fans have been thinking hard about how it will play out once&nbsp;Thunderbolts*&nbsp;hits theaters in May 2025.This has led the fandom to come up with some theories about what may unfold in the film, and some of them have a lot of great details backing them up. While it’s unclear how the film will unfold when it’s finally released, these fan theories suggest we may be in for a wild ride! Check out some of the best fan theories for&nbsp;Thunderbolts* and be sure to vote up your favorites before you go to see which one rises to the top of the list!

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In most industries, making out with your co-workers is unacceptable, but acting is different. Actors inhabit their characters, and they’re often required to portray intimate scenes with the people they work with, whether it’s a light peck on the cheek or&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/actors-talk-sex-scenes/lauren-glen">a full-blown sex scene</a>.&nbsp;It doesn’t happen often, but occasionally, a real off-screen couple gets the opportunity to kiss one another as their characters in a movie or TV show. This is atypical, but it’s not uncommon for a couple who are both actors to come together in the same project and kiss. Emily Blunt and John Krasinski played husband and wife in&nbsp;A Quiet Place, and that real-world couple had to smooch on camera.&nbsp;Occasionally, people like them comment publicly about their&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/actors-talk-about-favorite-on-screen-kisses/anncasano">on-screen kisses</a> with their romantic partners. Each of the couples below managed to score some intimate moments with one another and get paid for&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/actors-ready-for-steamy-scenes/anncasano">their steamy scenes</a>.

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Movie trailers are meant to provide a fraction of information to potential viewers to entice them to see a film.&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2015/07/a-brief-history-of-film-teasers-or-turns-out-this-post-is-not-about-peter-orner/">They’ve been around for a long time</a>, and most are pretty standard. Whether a narrator uses a strong, booming voice to entice audiences or montages of big explosions and huge set pieces are shown, odds are, you’ve seen hundreds of them and didn’t think much of what you watched.Then there are the trailers that do something different and stir up controversy for some reason. This might be done purposefully or entirely by accident. When it happens, the advertised film tends to get a lot of media coverage, but not the kind moviemakers tend to prefer. Each of the movies listed below ran a trailer that sparked more controversy than it did interest in the films they advertised. Check them out below, and be sure to vote up the trailers that warranted the controversy.

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Movies That Garnered Controversy Just From The Trailers

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Death is an inevitable fact of life we all must one day come to terms with, but when it happens to a TV or film character, it’s not always easy. People get angry when their favorite character is killed, and that’s as true of villains as it is of heroes. Seeing a favorite villain die can be challenging, but it’s made all the more difficult to accept when that death is anti-climactic.Seeing an anti-climactic death can ruin an entire story. You might wait in eager anticipation to see how the hero handles their foe but are ultimately disappointed when they’re killed off-screen, like in&nbsp;Twilight, or their death is rendered meaningless in cases like Emperor Palpatine in&nbsp;Return of the Jedi when he’s shown to have cheated death in&nbsp;Rise of Skywalker.Some movies and TV shows deliver a truly satisfying death of a hated character — think of King Joffrey in&nbsp;Game of Thrones. Unfortunately, for the ones that don’t handle a character's death well, it can be hard to forget. Each of these deaths was important to the story… or it should have been, but they were handled in such a way as to make them utterly anti-climactic.

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These days, high school shows are often overshadowed by massive fantasy epics like&nbsp;Game of Thrones or serious dramas like&nbsp;Succession. Throughout the 1970s, ‘80s, and beyond, some of the biggest shows on the airwaves centered around high school or school-aged kids. Because there are so many of these kinds of shows, it’s interesting to see which high school TV show stood above the competition the year they are released.If you were wondering what high school series your parents might have enjoyed when you were on the way - or when you'd just entered the world - this list just might give you a clue. Whether you've gone back and watched them or not, there's always the question on many fans' minds, “What was the quintessential, can't-miss high school TV show the year you were born?”

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2024: Year In Review

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Thousands of TV shows and movies have been based on true stories over the years, and 2024 is no exception. The year was filled with all kinds of enthralling docudramas, biopics, and more. From gripping Netflix series like&nbsp;Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story to a Bob Marley biopic called&nbsp;Bob Marley: One Love, there’s plenty to watch in 2024 where true stories are concerned.Each movie and TV series collected on this list was released in 2024, and they’re all based on true stories. Some are court dramas, while others tell tales of love and happiness in difficult times. Whatever genre you prefer, odds are, there’s something for you below. Check out the entries below, and be sure to vote up your favorite movies and <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/true-crime-tv-shows-and-series/ranker-tv?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">TV shows based on true stories</a> from 2024 to see which one rises to the top.

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The 16 Best 2024 Movies And TV Shows Inspired By True Stories

Plot twists are a common trope that pop up in movies all of the time – though some movies arguably do it better than most. A good plot twist is one the audience doesn’t see coming, and 2024 has had a plethora of pictures with outstanding plot twists. Whether it's the truth behind what's going on in&nbsp;Blink Twice or&nbsp;the true villain of The Fall Guy, more than a few plot twists made it into 2024’s best movies.&nbsp;This list features the best 2024 <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/plot-twist-in-middle-of-the-movie/mike-mcgranaghan?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">movie plot twists</a>, but it’s up to you to rank them, so be sure to vote up your favorites before you go. Take a look at these 2024 <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/movie-plot-twists-about-time/sean-migalla?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">movies with a plot twist</a> that caught viewers by surprises they didn’t see coming.Since this list deals in plot twists, a SPOILER WARNING is in effect!

Every Plot Twist From 2024 Movies, Ranked From Best To Worst

14 Movie Twists From 2024, Ranked

For the most part, a movie poster’s only job is to attract the attention of potential viewers. Throughout film and TV history, there have been excellent movie posters and terrible ones, and every once in a while, a poster or promo image will bring some controversy along for the ride.It makes sense that horror posters will often have imagery that's too gory or graphic for the general public like Saw II or The Strain, but some surprising backlash can also come from what's not shown in the ad - like in the case of Couples Retreat when an actor was photoshopped out. Each movie poster below came with its own controversy, so vote up which images justified all the noise.

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The 16 Biggest Movie And TV Poster Controverises, Ranked

Romance

Pretty much everyone loves romantic comedies, and if they don’t, odds are, they’re lying to themselves. Rom-coms offer a little something for everyone, giving folks looking for romance one thing to cheer for while others laugh uproariously at the on-screen antics. Think of movies like&nbsp;When Harry Met Sally…&nbsp;and Crazy, Stupid, Love — these are movies that pretty much everyone enjoys.Still, some of them come with controversial behind-the-scenes stories that make us rethink everything that happens on-screen. It’s tough to watch something like&nbsp;Crazy Rich Asians or&nbsp;Midnight in Paris once you know the truth of what went into making them.

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Familial Relations

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IIncest is one of those taboo topics people whisper about but rarely engage in open conversation. Despite or perhaps because of this, incest comes up surprisingly often in popular culture. Whether in a popular television series or a major motion picture, sometimes, an incest plot twist just fits.If you’ve seen movies like&nbsp;Oldboy or TV shows like&nbsp;Community and&nbsp;Friends, you likely know how incest is used to drive a point home. Sometimes, it’s done to shock the audience, while in others, it’s meant to make us laugh. Oddly enough, it tends to work, even if it makes the viewer cringe a bit. These movies and TV shows all threw in an incest plot twist make viewers squirm in their seats.

16 Times Incest Was A Huge Plot Twist

The 16 Most Surprising Times The Twist Was Incest

When a movie does well, it often earns a sequel to keep the story going. This can be good, but it can also backfire, and some sequels don’t match up to their predecessors. Most of the time, a sequel picks up the story where the last film left off, but not always. Every once in a while, someone gets it in their head to completely ignore the previous movie’s ending and move forward with a story that doesn’t entirely make sense.Movies like&nbsp;Highlander II: The Quickening and&nbsp;Joker: Folie à Deux are guilty of this, but there are more. This article highlights the most egregious examples of a filmmaker dumping the ending of the first movie to create their sequel, and in most cases, it doesn’t work. Check them out below, and be sure to vote up the sequels you feel crossed the creative line by completely ignoring the ending from the previous film.

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If you’re a fan of the horror and slasher genres, there’s a good chance you enjoy cinematic gore. Fortunately, there are plenty of flicks to peruse on a <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-horror-movies-for-date-night/ranker-horror?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">horror movie night</a>, though not every gory film is worthy of being called the “Nastiest, Bloodiest, Goriest” of all time. Of course, when you’re talking about endings, it’s often “Go big or go home” territory, and plenty of filmmakers have opened buckets of fake blood and gore to drive their point home at the very end of a movie.It doesn’t always work well, and the practice isn’t limited to horror movies. Plenty of action flicks like&nbsp;Raiders of the Lost Ark&nbsp;and sci-fi films like&nbsp;Event Horizon do it as well, though the trend does favor horror movies like&nbsp;Evil Dead&nbsp;and&nbsp;Saw III. This is especially true of so-called body horror, which is a subgenre that involves some of the grossest depictions of body modification ever dreamt up in a person’s head and made for the silver screen. This list highlights the very nastiest movie endings, and it's up to you to vote up the gory movie endings that really bring the blood.

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Controversy

When controversial films spawn sequels, audiences are often more shocked by the existence of those sequels than they are by any scandalous subject matter. Of course The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) shocked with its body horror and graphic visuals, but isn't it more shocking that, after The Human Centipede, someone went back to the well for another installment?This can create some problems because it’s a way of doubling down on the original controversy. Battle Royale&nbsp;and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer were massively controversial, yet both led to sequels that even some fans of the originals are unaware of. Even a blockbuster like Basic Instinct, infamous for a single shot of Sharon Stone, was followed by Basic Instinct 2 over 10 years later.

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16 Controversial Movies That Somehow Got Sequels

The worst injuries stunt people have endured making movies prove that stunt performers and stunt doubles face risks with every action-packed movie. No matter how safe a film set is, not every stunt goes according to plan, and stunt accidents can result in a stunt performer being horribly injured on the job.When this happens, it can result in injuries like a broken bone, but sometimes, it’s far worse than that, with performers receiving debilitating injuries. This list collects incidents of stunts gone wrong in which stuntman and stuntwomen were hurt, particularly notorious cases like the paralyzation of Daniel Radcliffe's stunt double on the Harry Potter films or the greivous injury of Milla Jovovich's double on Resident Evil: The Final Chapter. In some cases, like Joe Watts's traumatic brain jury making F9, led to lawsuits and a greater public awareness of on-set injuries.Stunts that resulted in the death of a performer are not the focus of this list; a tragic death making <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/full-cast-of-the-expendables-2-actors-and-actresses/reference?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">The Expendables 2</a> is included only because of its relationship to another stunt accident on that production. Fortunately, in most cases, the stunt gone wrong did not lead to fatalities.

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Tim Burton

Tim Burton is exceptional at creating villains, and his movies are full of some memorable ones. Whether they’re played by one of his usual collaborators like Michael Keaton (who goes villainous in both Beetlejuice and Dumbo) and Helena Bonham Carter (regally villainous in Alice in Wonderland) or an unlikely candidate, Burton’s ability to draw out an actor’s evil side through the portrayal of his villains is extraordinary.&nbsp;Each of the big bads below is a bad guy from one of Burton’s films, and they’re all evil in different ways. Check them out below, and vote up your favorite Tim Burton bad guys to see which villain rises to the top.

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The 22 Best Tim Burton Villains, Ranked By Movie Fans

Tim Burton's unique style and aesthetics are evident in every movie he makes. You can watch&nbsp;Edward Scissorhands and&nbsp;Batman Returns, which are entirely different movies, but you’ll see elements that connect them.&nbsp;Burton’s work has always been more horror-adjacent than true entries in the genre. He can creep an audience or throw a jump scare their way without deviating from a film’s overall comedic structure. But some of Burton’s movies include legitimately horrifying scenes, and because he tends to pack them into family-friendly fare, they tend to come out of nowhere.

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Since the very first James Bond film, Dr. No, hit theaters in 1962, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://evert.meulie.net/various/media/all-james-bond-movies/">nearly a dozen actors</a> have played Agent 007. Many of those portrayals are in radio dramas or non-canon feature films like the first Casino Royale, leaving the role to Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, and Daniel Craig as <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ign.com/articles/james-bond-actors-in-order">the main actors</a> throughout the franchise.Across dozens of movies, those six actors appeared alongside an army of cast members, and many of them have spoken about what it was like to work with them. Whether they came together for Never Say Never Again, License to Kill, GoldenEye, Die Another Day, or Spectre, each <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-james-bond-actors/ranker-entertainment?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">James Bond actor</a> had an impact on the people they worked closest with - here's what they had to say about them.

What People Who Worked With James Bond Actors Had To Say About Them

10 Stories From Co-Stars Of Actors Who Played James Bond

People constantly talk about how good actors like Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter are in Tim Burton movies, but there are other actors in Tim Burton movies that deserve the spotlight. Whether they were overshadowed by a main character or something else took away their deserved attention, each one gave a fantastic, underrated performance.&nbsp;

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True Crime on Screen

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If there’s one genre that’s truly stood the test of time, it’s real crime. Whenever something terrible happens, if it grabs enough headlines, you know someone will at the very least make a made-for-TV movie about it. It’s happened with serial killers and monsters of all types, and the trend goes back well into the 20th century. The 1980s was a particularly productive decade for <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/movies-based-on-real-murders/ranker-film?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">movies based on real crimes</a>, with films detailing everything from the Hillside Strangler to the story of Patty Hearst.Whatever the crime, odds are there’s a filmmaker with the time to turn it into something truly entertaining. Each of these movies dropped in the '80s, and every one of them was based on a real crime. Check them out below, and if you find a film you think deserves to move up the list, be sure to vote so it can climb higher.

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The Wide World Of Controversy

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Megalopolis has been mired in controversy,&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/great-movies-behind-the-scenes-problems/anncasano">behind-the-scenes problems</a>, and scandals, along with many reports of eccentricity and bad on-set behavior by writer-director Francis Ford Coppola. The 2024 film, which features the likes of Adam Driver and Aubrey Plaza, is a longtime passions project from the director of The Godfather, and the legendary auteur's behavior has caused consternation in the film industry.When it debuted at the Cannes Film Festival, Megalopolis reviews called it <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.vulture.com/article/review-francis-ford-coppolas-megalopolis-is-totally-nuts.html">“batsh*t”</a> and <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/16/megalopolis-review-coppola-sci-fi-adam-driver">“megabloated and megaboring”</a> Before that, Coppola's production was making headlines for the director's allegedly inapporpriate behavior on-set, and of, course, for its elaborate backstory.&nbsp;The film, which Coppola developed for decades and poured his own money into making, is a science-fiction allegory riffing on Fritz Lang’s 1927 classic&nbsp;Metropolis, which&nbsp;set many standards for <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/all-time-great-sci-fi-movies/harper-brooks?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">science fiction films</a> while commenting on social structures. Coppola, who fell in love with its imagery and story as a child, began laying out what would become his longest-running passion projects in the 1970s.He finally made it, but the hype and release of Megalopolis have been thoroughly overshadowed by a series of controversies both behind the scenes and in front of the press.

All The Controversies Surrounding Francis Ford Coppola's 'Megalopolis'

Every Controversy Surrounding Coppola's 'Megalopolis' So Far

It's no secret that actors need to get in really good shape before action films so they look good on camera, and some actors are <a href="/list/actors-who-always-take-off-their-shirt/zach-seemayer">constantly doing shirtless scenes</a> to show off their bodies. But in the past couple decades, particularly with superhero films on the rise, Hollywood has gotten far more demanding about what an actor has to look like with their shirt off. It's no longer simply a matter of "getting in good shape" - actors now have to do vigorous (and sometimes dangerous) workouts for nine-month periods leading up to certain roles, follow ultra-strict nutritional guidelines, and partake a series of bizarre (and sometimes quasi-legal) tricks right before shirtless scenes just so the movie can capture the hyper-jacked, mega-chiseled look that studios now demand.Here are some of the bigger action stars in movies today talking about the ridiculous regimens they have to go through every time they need to film a shirtless scene.

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Turning our bring-em-closer toward the adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow, Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann, Hector Barbossa, Davy Jones, and the rest of the rowdy gangs aboard the Black Pearl, the Flying Dutchman, and other ships of the Caribbean.

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Pirates of the Caribbean Franchise

You have to give Disney a lot of credit when it comes to the&nbsp;Pirates of the Caribbean&nbsp;movies. When the first one was released, few people thought it would do well. After all, it was based on a ride in the Disney parks, and that made it something of a brand new IP almost nobody could relate to. Add to that the fact that the last big pirate-themed movie (Cutthroat Island) was so bad, it tanked its production studio, and it seemed like a massive gamble.

Of course, it&#39;s been nearly 20 years since&nbsp;Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl&nbsp;was released, and Disney&#39;s been raking in the cash. There have been four sequels with another in development, and there&#39;s even going to be a spin-off, which will likely get its own franchise. Disney is in the pirate business, and business has been good.

With so many movies released in the franchise, there are tons of clever little details&nbsp;hidden throughout. Some fans have picked up on a lot of these, and they have taken to the <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/" target="_blank">MovieDetails</a> subreddit to share what they&#39;ve found. The most interesting findings are found below, so take a look, and if you see something you didn&#39;t already know, go ahead and give it an upvote to see which one rises to the top!

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Lists of everything Avengers-related, including West Coast, East Coast, Great Lakes, Astonishing Avengers.

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Avengers Franchise

Since 2008&#39;s Iron Man, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has grown to become the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/the-highest-grossing-movie-franchises-of-all-time/robert-wabash" target="_blank">most financially successful movie franchise</a> of all time. That&#39;s an amazing achievement for such a young franchise. Still, it wouldn&#39;t have been even close to possible had those films not been filled with some of the most impressive cast members working in Hollywood.

This list compiles some of the more interesting tidbits of information about the cast members of the various Avengers movies, so it can include both villains and heroes.&nbsp;Find your favorite Avengers cast facts down below, and don&#39;t forget to give the best ones an upvote to see which one rises to the top.

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Obi-Wan Kenobi

Ever since Sir Alec Guinness pulled down his hood, revealing <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/jedi-order-star-wars-timeline/tyler-mitchell?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">the first Jedi</a> seen in Star Wars, fans have been kicking around theories about Obi-Wan Kenobi. Fan theories about Kenobi have been around for more than 40 years, and they have evolved over time as more information about the man was revealed. Thanks to the prequel trilogy, Clone Wars, and a plethora of books and comics, fan theories about Obi-Wan Kenobi have grown and blossomed into some seriously believable ideas.This list highlights the best Obi-Wan Kenobi fan theories people have shared on Reddit's <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/">FanTheories</a> subreddit. There are tons of them, but the ones found here are the most believable. Take a look, and if you find one you think makes sense, be sure to upvote it to see which one rises to the top!

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Traveling to a new place can be exciting, and tourism around the world helps bridge the gap between cultures. However, travel isn&#39;t without its risks. There are plenty of shady characters around the world&nbsp;who target and take advantage of tourists.&nbsp;

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