Rather than use CGI, Tim Burton had 40 squirrels trained to crack nuts for Charlie & The Chocolate Factory.
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Jon Heder was paid only $1,000 for his role in Napoleon Dynamite.
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The police were called 91 times during the filming of the movie "Borat".
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In Jurassic Park, the T-Rex wasn't supposed to come through and break the glass roof of the explorer during the attack scene, subsequently producing the noticeably genuine screams from the children.
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A 1997 comedy movie by the name of “Trojan War” made only $309 in ticket sales. Its budget? 15 million.
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In 1997, Kevin Smith was hired by Warner Brothers to write the script for a Superman movie. He was forced to write Superman without the power of flight and he had to fight a giant spider. The movie would’ve starred Nicolas Cage.
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Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, prefers the movie version to his own novel.
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London's King's Cross railway station has a platform 9 3/4 in dedication to Harry Potter.
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