First NC-17 film

The first film to receive an NC-17 rating was the 1990 biopic drama Henry & June.

Indiana Jones' real name

Indiana Jones was born Henry Walton Jones Jr.  His father, Henry Senior, is a professor of medieval literature.

Annie Hall's working title

The thing I learned today is that Woody Allen's masterpiece, Annie Hall, had several working titles, including Anhedonia, which means the inability to experience pleasure.

Saturday Night Fever

The thing I learned today is that the 1977 movie Saturday Night Fever was based on an article written by Nik Cohn called "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night," about young men haunting the disco club Odyssey.  In the 1990s, Cohn revealed his article was fabricated, as he could make no sense of the actual disco scene.

Stewjon

Stewjon is a planet that is the home of Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars franchise.  This name is a play on the name of John Stewart, but has become canon.

First Roger Moore James Bond

The first James Bond film to star Roger Moore is Live And Let Die, released in 1973.

First PG-13 rated movie

The first film released with the rating PG-13 was the 1984 war fantasy Red Dawn.  Technically, the first film to be rated PG-13 was The Flamingo Kid, but Red Dawn came out first.

The iconic movie phrase "Go ahead, make my day" was first uttered by Clint Eastwood's rogue cop Harry Callahan in Sudden Impact. It is number 6 on the AFI's list of top 100 movie quotes. Suddenly, he was making an impact on film wonks with his famous lines!

In the movie "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial" (which may be the only major motion picture to have a period and a colon adjoining each other), E.T. watches the kissing scene of the 1952 John Wayne movie "The Quiet Man," which makes Elliot act out the scene at school.

RenderMan is a digital imaging software used by Pixar to create realistic imagery in movies such as 'Jurassic Park,' 'The Incredibles,' 'Forrest Gump,' and many others.

Most Oscars

The movies that have won the most Oscars are 'Ben-Hur' (1959), 'Titanic' (1997), and 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King' (2003), with eleven of the gold guys each. ('All About Eve' and 'Titanic' have the most nominations, with 14 each.)

The 1939 film 'Gone with the Wind' had three directors: George Cukor was the first, and was replaced after three weeks because of his unhappiness with the script and Clark Gable. Victor Fleming was brought in but several weeks later. He was temporarily replaced by Sam Wood while he recovered from exhaustion. Victor Fleming received screen credit.

Robert Towne

Robert Towne was a screenwriter and director. He wrote and won an Oscar for 'Chinatown.' He also wrote 'The Last Detail,' 'Shampoo,' and 'Mission Impossible.' His dog was credited with, and nominated for an Oscar for, his writing on 'Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan.'

Dame Edith Evans was an English actress known primarily for her Shakespearean roles and as Lady Bracknell in "The Importance of Being Earnest."

"Abie's Irish Rose" is a play by Anne Nicholas about the wedding of an Irish catholic woman who marries a Jewish man. There were two film versions made.

OUTATIME was the license plate of the DeLorean DMC-12 time machine in the movie Back To the Future.

A Star Is Born is the name of three films about a woman who falls in love with an actor just as her career rises and his declines. The 1976 version starred Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, and sounds just awful.

Ole Olsen

Ole Olsen was a vaudeville comic who wrote the 1938 Broadway show 'Hellzapoppin' with pianist Chic Johnson.

Brigadoon

Brigadoon is a musical by Lerner and Loewe about a mythical Scottish village that appears only once every 100 years. The story was based on a German legend. It was made into a movie as well.