Hollywood Facts

The filming of the movie 'Titanic' cost more than the Titanic itself!

In the movie 'The Wizard Of Oz', Toto the dog's salary was $125 a week, while Judy Garland was $500 a week.

Justin Timberlake's half-eaten french toast sold for over $3,000 on eBay!

Brad Pitt has been smoking since the sixth grade!

Halle Berry's stunt double, in the movie "Cat Woman" was infact a man.

Johnny Depp suffers from self-injury.

Pierce Brosnan once worked with the circus as a fire eater!

There are 24 towns named Hollywood in the United States.

Drew Carey once worked at a Denny's.

85% of movie actors earn less than $5,000 a year from acting!

Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.

Seann William Scott, who played the over-the-top Stifler in the American Pie films, was extremely shy in real life and didn't have a girlfriend until he was 27 years old.

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.

Walt Disney was a high school dropout and he was fired by a newspaper editor because "he lacked imagination and had no good ideas."

Keira Knightley and Natalie Portman looked so much alike on set, not even their own mothers could tell them apart!

The Mos Eisley scenes in Star Wars were filmed in the real Tunisian town of Ajim, where locals still live among the iconic filming locations today.

When playing an American character, Christian Bale will give all his press interviews in an American accent in order to not confuse the audience.

Sales of the Guy Fawkes mask - used by protesters all over the world as a symbol of their fight against government corruption and corporate power - all go to Time Warner.

John Hughes filmed The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off just eight months apart at the same high school in Illinois. He reused many of the same crew members and locations, and eagle-eyed viewers can spot identical hallways, lockers, and even some of the same posters on the walls.

If the runway in the final action scene of Fast & Furious 6 was real, it would be at least 26 miles (42km) long.

Heath Ledger locked himself in a hotel room for a month to prepare for his iconic role as the Joker in The Dark Knight

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.

Al Pacino didn't sign his own checks. His accountant did. By his 70s, his $50 million fortune was gone. He was unknowingly paying for 16 cars, 23 cellphones, and a $400,000-per-year landscaper at a house he never lived in. The accountant got seven and a half years in prison. Pacino had to take roles in movies he openly disliked — including Jack and Jill — just to pay the bills.