Jon Heder was paid only $1,000 for his role in Napoleon Dynamite.
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The Rain Man (Laurence Kim Peek) was the only savant known to science who could read two pages of a book simultaneously - one with each eye.
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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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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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The name for Oz in "The Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
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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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Lindsay Lohan was approached to star in The Hangover, but she declined because the screenplay "had no potential".
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