by Brian GalindoBuzzFeedBuzzFeed StaffSenior Editor, Nostalgia Nerd

There would be no John Wick if it weren't for Eva Longoria. She revealed that she helped keep John Wick from falling apart before filming even began. At the time, the 2014 action movie faced a major funding gap and was on the verge of being shut down just days before production. Through a last-minute opportunity arranged by the film's financing team and an agent who wasn't even her own, she stepped in and covered a $6 million shortfall that the production couldn't raise elsewhere.

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According to the filmmakers, that money arrived less than 24 hours before they would have had to abandon the project entirely. Longoria has said she didn't set out as a seasoned investor and was still learning how film financing worked when she made the decision. Looking back, she called it a lucky break that ended up connecting her to one of the most successful action franchises ever made. She said she has made way more than double her investment in the film. Her only regret is that she didn't think to ask for a piece of the franchise, as she only gets money from the first film.

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If you grew up in the '80s and '90s, then you probably have fond memories of watching Muppet Babies. Despite it running for eight seasons and being a beloved TV show, the full original series (unlike almost every other cartoon from the time) has never been officially released on streaming services or on DVD in a complete form, and that's unlikely to change. The main issue has to do with complex rights and copyright questions tied to the show's character usage and music, which makes it hard for rights holders to clear everything for a modern release.

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In 2023, Guy Gilchrist, an artist who worked on the series, gave an interview on Instagram in which he said that legal hurdles were created because Jim Henson was very good friends with people like George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, who allowed him to use movie clips and music from Star Wars and Indiana Jones. According to him, "We basically did whatever we wanted with the blessing of all the studios," because Henson was so beloved.

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That ended up creating a modern problem, because, at the time, TV contracts had been structured the same way for more than 30 years — covering first runs, reruns, and syndication. They had no way of knowing that in the future, DVDs or streaming would be a thing. As a result, Muppet Babies remains essentially "lost media," something that people talk about but can't officially stream or buy in digital form from major platforms.

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Robert Pattinson once took an overzealous fan who was stalking him out on a date; he bored her, and he never saw her again. During the filming of his 2008 movie Little Ashes in Spain, he said he had a fan who stood outside his apartment for weeks hoping to see him. Rather than call security or ignore her, he once invited her out to dinner because he was "bored and lonely."

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On that dinner date, Pattinson ended up talking about how unhappy he was with parts of his life, and the conversation apparently wasn't very fun for the woman. After that night, she stopped coming around his place and never resumed following him around, which he joked was because "people get bored of me in, like, two minutes."

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The character of Ron Swanson on Parks and Recreation was actually inspired by a real person. The show's creators, Greg Daniels and Michael Schur, did research for the show because they wanted it to be grounded in reality, so they visited real local government offices to get a feel for what life inside a parks department was like. During one visit in Burbank, California, they were speaking with a city official and mentioned to her that they wanted to make "Leslie's boss opposed to government."

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Telling her, "Wouldn't it be funny if she's trying so hard to get stuff accomplished, but her boss was like one of those Bush appointees who doesn't believe in the mission of the branch of government he's supposed to be overseeing?" She responded, "Well, I'm a libertarian, so I don't really believe in the mission of my job." That ironic comment about not believing in the mission of her own work sparked the idea for Ron's deadpan, libertarian, anti‑government attitude.

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Yes, many Titanic survivors watched the movies that came out later about it. In fact, they consulted on one. The first major movies about the ship didn't come out until the '50s, with 1953's Titanic and 1958's A Night to Remember. With A Night to Remember being widely considered the most historically accurate film portrayal of

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