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• Received such bad reviews that it was dropped by every UK cinema after only one week.
  
  
• Broke the record at the time for the largest second weekend drop in box-office, with an 81.9% drop.
  
  
• Halle Berry was originally going to act opposite Ben Affleck, but ended up dropping out.
  
  
• Became the first film in the history of the Razzie Awards to "sweep" all the top categories. Including, Worst Picture. Worst Director, Martin Brest. Worst Actor, Ben Affleck. Worst Actress, Jennifer Lopez. And Worst Screenplay, Written by Martin Brest. Essentially making it the Razzie equivalent of It Happened One Night (1934), which was the first film to win the "Oscar Grand Slam" (Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Director and Screenplay). The film ("Gigli") also claimed a sixth Razzie Award for Worst Screen Couple, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez.
  
  
• By its third weekend on release, only 73 U.S. theaters were showing it, down from 2,215 during its first weekend, a drop of 97%.
  
  
• The word "fuck" is used 124 times.
  
  
• Of all of the primary cast members, the only one who does not curse at all during his scenes is Christopher Walken.
  
  
• Ranked #1 on the Star Networks' 101 Biggest Celebrity Oops (2004).
  
  
• In March 2006 FX Networks started airing commercials hyping the premiere of Gigli on the network. The commercials seemed to play off the negative media attention by including lines like "The most talked about movie you never saw."
  
  
• This is the second film to have Ben Affleck's character "convert" a lesbian woman, the first being Chasing Amy (1997).
  
  
• Gigli (pronounced Jee-lee), means short cut pasta (suitable for casseroles or salads; also known as Cornetti and Corni di bue).
  
  
• There are rumors of an original ending to the film which was much more violent, and dark, that what is in the final cut. Ben Affleck's character was originally going to die, murdered by Christopher Walken's character. However, with the tabloid-addicted relationship of Affleck and co-star 'Jennifer Lopez', the studio's convinced director Martin Brest into making the film into a romantic comedy.
  
  
• There are many scenes from the trailer that do not appear in the film.
  - 0:07 - Talking with Larry's mother.
  - 0:11 - Larry in a jumpsuit, walking toward man in car. Ricki and Brian watch from other car.
  - 0:17 - Larry talks more with his mother.
  - 0:27 - Brian making noises with a straw in a diner.
  - 1:46 - Ricki in car, in a driving scene not present in film.
  - 2:03 - Ricki and Larry are at some kind of junkyard it seems.
  - 2:06 - Larry and Brian at a diner, talking to one another.
  - 2:10 - Larry putting his hands in his palm, looking kinda sad.
  - 2:12 - More junkyard footage, not to mention Larry mentioning a confession to Ricki in a diner scene not present in the film.
  - 2:16 - Ricki walking away from Larry, looking sad. She has a backpack over her shoulder.
  - 2:21 - More junkyard footage.
  This all ties into the rumor that Martin Brest had an original, much more dark and violent 160 minute version of the film. However, with the tabloid craze of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, the studio forced director Brest into deleted almost 40 minutes of footage and re-writing / re-shooting many sequences to make it a romantic comedy. Unfortunately, there is no news if this original cut will ever be released on DVD.
  
  

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