These TV Shows Did So Well That They Got Box Office Spin-Offs

South Park

The off-color Comedy Central show has been pretty longrunning, and a thorn in most parents' sides. Kids have a hard time understanding that not all cartoons are meant for them. South Park hit the big screen in 1999 with a film called South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.

21 Jump Street

The version of 21 Jump Street you probably know and love stars Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill as two undercover cops trying to bust a drug ring in a high school. However, Johnny Depp actually did it first. 21 Jump Street was one of those shows that had nearly every famous actor on it before they made it big, and Depp owes a lot of his career to the cop show.

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The More You Know

  • In the movie 'The Hangover', no effects or prosthetics were created for Stu's missing tooth. Actor Ed Helms never had an adult incisor grow, and his fake incisor was taken out for the parts of filming where Stu's tooth is missing.
  • Viggo Mortensen had no intention of working on The Lord of the Rings until his son begged him to do it.
  • There’s a Starbucks cup in every "Fight Club" scene.
  • Executive producer of Toy Story and Chief Pixar shareholder Steve Jobs picked Bob Dylan as his first choice to write and perform the soundtrack to the film over Randy Newman.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.