Sony Pictures Entertainment and Columbia Pictures decided to put the project in turnaround, essentially dropping out of the production and distribution obligations, leaving it available for any other studio to pick up. Universal Pictures, in the process, picked up the project, which isn't the first time that Universal has picked up a project put into turnaround by another studio, and the truth is that they are just coming off a very successful version of this maneuver. Dumb and Dumber To (2014) was originally set up at Warner Brothers, before being dropped, and Universal swooped in to make sure that the film got made. This paid off big, as the comedy opened to a solid thirty-six million dollars in its first three days. Picking up discarded projects hasn't always worked for the studio. Case in point: Kick-Ass 2 (2013), but there exists plenty of potential in the Steve Jobs biopic, and Universal seems to see it.
Marnie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Beginning of filming had to be delayed from November 22, 1963 until November 26th because of the assassination and funeral of President John F. Kennedy.
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Sir Alfred Hitchcock first asked Evan Hunter, the screenwriter for The Birds (1963), to adapt the novel after Tippi Hedren had signed on. However, Hunter strongly objected to the scene in the novel where Mark rapes Marnie, as he felt it was "unheroic" and that it would make women in the audience hate Mark. When he pressed Hitchcock about changing the scene, Hitchcock fired him. Jay Presson Allen, who took over as screenwriter, stated that opposition to the rape scene doomed Hunter since that scene was the main reason Hitchcock wanted to do the movie. For her part, Allen said she never had any qualms about including the scene, and felt it was up to Sir Sean Connery and his charisma to make the audience "forgive" Mark's actions.
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When Sir Alfred Hitchcock's discussion with Princess Grace Kelly (to appear as the title character) became public, the residents of Monaco expressed their disapproval, and Kelly withdrew. In a further complication, since Kelly had not fulfilled her MGM contract when she married Prince Rainier III in 1956, she could not appear in any movie other than an MGM movie until she fulfilled the terms of her MGM contract.
Marnie - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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