John Hughes shot The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off back to back to save money. He also used the same crew and sets, including the high school with the same posters on the walls.
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Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart had no idea how to play chess when they appeared in X-Men 2.
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People actually live in the Mos Eisley set from Star Wars.
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Steven Callahan spent 76 days at sea while he drifted 1,800 perilous miles across the Atlantic in a rubber raft, battling starvation, thirst, sharks and storms. He later became the technical adviser for the acclaimed movie Life Of Pi.
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Keanu Reeves gave $75 million of his matrix sequels paycheck to the film’s SFX team and bought the entire stunt crew Harley Davidson motorcycles.
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Heath Ledger asked Christian Bale to actually beat him for the interrogation scene in the Dark Knight.
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Jon Heder was paid only $1,000 for his role in Napoleon Dynamite.
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