If the runway in the final action scene of Fast & Furious 6 was real, it would be at least 26 miles (42km) long.
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For each word he said in Terminator 2, Arnold Schwarzenegger was paid $21,429.
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The iconic roar made by Godzilla was produced by rubbing a leather glove across the strings of a double bass.
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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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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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Rather than use CGI, Tim Burton had 40 squirrels trained to crack nuts for Charlie & The Chocolate Factory.
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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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