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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The Rock accidentally knocked out Michael Clarke Duncan while filming a fight scene for The Scorpion King and had a custom Rolex made as an apology gift, but liked the watch so much that he kept it for himself.
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Eminem was offered the lead role in the 2013 sci-fi movie, Elysium. He was interested but he turned it down due to one major condition not being met; Elysium would have to be shot in his hometown, Detroit.
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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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People actually live in the Mos Eisley set from Star Wars.
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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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Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart had no idea how to play chess when they appeared in X-Men 2.
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Over the whole Twilight saga, there are over 24 minutes of just staring.
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