While filming a guest appearance on Star Trek TNG, Stephen Hawking was taken on a tour of the USS Enterprise set. When he saw the Warp Core, he paused, and said “I’m working on that.”
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Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, prefers the movie version to his own novel.
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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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Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart had no idea how to play chess when they appeared in X-Men 2.
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For each word he said in Terminator 2, Arnold Schwarzenegger was paid $21,429.
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Borat, when supposedly speaking in Kazakh with his partner throughout the film, was actually speaking fluent Hebrew.
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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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London's King's Cross railway station has a platform 9 3/4 in dedication to Harry Potter.
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