Best movie trivia of 2016

Trivia: Director Taika Waititi has a cameo as the local church minister who delivers the sermon at the funeral.

Trivia: When Snowball and Max hijack the bus and take it on the Bridge there is a short shot of the back of the bus which has a poster on it that says "SING", a reference to the next Illumination film.

Trivia: When Casey is looking at Rocksteady's criminal record, his birthday is listed as 1/28/1978. This is actor Stephen Farrelly's, also known as Sheamus, actual birthday.

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Trivia: Dr Evazan and Ponda Baba (the two that confront Ben Kenobi in the cantina in Star Wars) have a small cameo in the city of Jedha.

Trivia: In the 'happy Lent' scene, Wade is reading the Mario Lopez autobiography. Mario Lopez filmed a promotion with Ryan Reynolds where they pretended the movie was going to be toned down to a PG-13, which would have infuriated fans, before revealing the true R rating.

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Trivia: The Zootopia taxicab service is called Thigmo Taxis, which is a pun adapted from the biological term "thigmotaxis," meaning "Movement of an organism toward or away from any object that provides a mechanical stimulus."

Trivia: During the several scenes where the pilots are communicating with Air Traffic Control, they are always addressed as flight 1549. During the real incident, however, both the pilots and controllers misspoke, labeling the flight number as both 1529 and 1539. This was likely due to the intensely stressful situation.

Trivia: The sorcerors' WiFi password, Shamballa, is a reference to the 1986 Doctor Strange graphic novel "Into Shamballa."

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Trivia: When Moon is riding his bike in the beginning of the film, he crosses a bridge, and we can see a whale wearing the bowler hat from "Meet the Robinsons."

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Trivia: During the big fight between Batman and Superman, a broken window has the same shape as Ontario, in Canada. Superman creator Joel Shuster was born in Toronto. The broken window is only ever shown from Superman's angle, not Batman's. This was confirmed by Zack Snyder as being a deliberate, if obscure, easter egg.

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Trivia: Despite receiving fifth billing, Andy Garcia is only on screen for 10 seconds and has no lines at all.

Trivia: Early in the movie, when George is speaking to John, he says, "Me Tarzan, you Jane." Even though this line has been synonymous with the character Tarzan, it has actually never been said by Tarzan at all in any movie or any stories written about Tarzan's adventures. This is officially the first time the line is used.

Trivia: Terrence (Sean Penn) does not have a single word of dialogue throughout the entire film.

Trivia: At 1 hour and 41 minutes long, this is the longest stop-motion film to date,.

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Trivia: In the film Falcon uses a drone named Redwing. In the comics he uses a real falcon with the same name.

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Trivia: The character of Maui, voiced by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson at one point in the film cocks his eyebrow, which is a gesture often used by "The Rock" during his time as a WWF/WWE Superstar.

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Trivia: The photo at the end that Spock looks at is from the end of Star Trek V.

Trivia: When Lorraine Warren is dreaming about the demonic nun in her house, the demon actually reveals its name in 2 ways. The first is the way Lorraine realises at the end of the movie (written in the Bible). However, the audience is another way-the gold letters on the bookshelf behind her also spell out the name "Valak."

Trivia: The "Demonic Balloons" that attack the Ghostbusters are almost direct re-creations of real Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons from the 1930's. The filmmakers decided to use the real designs in order to represent the "spirits" of New York's history... and also because they were quite eerie and unsettling.

Trivia: Antoine Fuqua, who directed ‘Olympus has Fallen' (2013), did not want to direct this sequel because he did not like the script.