Michael Jackson tried to buy Marvel Comics in the early 1990s so that he could play Spider-Man in his own movie.
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Sean Connery turned down the role of Gandalf in Lord of the Rings because he didn't understand the script.
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Rather than use CGI, Tim Burton had 40 squirrels trained to crack nuts for Charlie & The Chocolate Factory.
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Wilson the volleyball, from the movie 'Cast Away', won an award for 'Best Inanimate Object'.
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In Jurassic Park, the dinosaurs are only on the screen for 15 minutes. The movie is over two hours long.
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The scene in Skyfall where Daniel Craig is shaved with a classical razor lead to a 400% increase of straight edge razor sales.
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If you arrange the first letters of the names of the main characters in Inception, you would get DREAMS.
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Lindsay Lohan was approached to star in The Hangover, but she declined because the screenplay "had no potential".
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