Making commercials, for an extra who has made it into the union, is governed by a complicated set of bumps, overtime and upgrades. Under the contract negotiated by SAG, the day rate for an extra, $342, covers only eight hours a day (other crew members' contracts cover 10 or 12 hours).
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Bruce Willis was an extra in a courtroom scene of The Verdict. then–young guys Ben Affleck and Matt Damon were extras in the Fenway Park scene in Field of Dreams. Marilyn Monroe, Clint Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone, Brad Pitt, Clark Gable — all were extras, in the beginning.
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I snuck to the bookstore and bought a copy of The Exorcist when I was in 8th grade. I hid it, as if it were porn, under the mattress to read at night. Of course, being the kind of reader I still am, I couldn’t stop reading it. I hid it in a textbook and was reading it in class, in Catholic school, in the 1970s. Back then, there were two kinds of nuns. There were the old school, no-nonsense nuns w...
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Some Hollywood Extras Suffer, but Others Are Rolling in It. Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 6:30 a.m. Hurry up and wait. It's one of the biggest clichés in film and television production, the watchword on sets all over Los Angeles, as brief flurries of activity are punctuated by long stretches of idleness.
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That would be Gandhi, over 300,000 extras used at the funeral scene. Lalo Chavez.
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The 1982 movie, Gandhi set the record for use of film extras, with over 300,000 people reenacting the fallen leader's funeral.
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, fan of classic movies. The funeral sequence in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi (1982) had over 300,000 extras. Two thirds were volunteers; the rest received a small fee. It was filmed on 31 January, 1981, the 33rd anniversary of Gandhi's funeral. Gandhi was cremated one day after he was shot.
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And then, not content with showing up in two of the greatest movie series of every '80s kid's childhood, R2 appears in The Goonies (produced by Spielberg) as part of the pirate ship. R2's so determined to make an impact among children that the only point of comparison by today's standards is childhood diabetes.
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There are recurring characters who show up in movies or shows that you've seen a hundred times but never noticed -- either because they were hidden, or simply because they have the kind of face you forget two seconds after you see it. Let us blow your mind by re-introducing you to ...
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Evidently it's Gandhi. Gandhi, the movie, set a world record by having 300,000 extras for one scene!
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what movie had the most extras in a scene
 Gandhi movie had the most extras in a scene. The movie, Gandhi, had the most extras in a scene. 