TV and Film Facts
Fun facts about your favorite TV shows and movies that you didn't know. Trivia about voice actors, Disney, movie theaters, and more.
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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Jon Heder was paid only $1,000 for his role in Napoleon Dynamite.
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Over the whole Twilight saga, there are over 24 minutes of just staring.
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Walt Disney was a high school dropout and he was fired by a newspaper editor because "he lacked imagination and had no good ideas."
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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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God is the only Simpsons character to have five fingers on each hand.
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The first guy to win Who Wants To Be A Millionaire (USA) used none of his lifelines until the final question, where he called his dad. During the call, he told his dad he didn't need any help on the final question, but he just wanted to let him know that he was about to win $1,000,000.
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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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The Simpsons are responsible for popularizing the word 'meh'.
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Raj from the Big Bang Theory is married to Miss India.
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The Power Rangers command center is a real building located in a California University.
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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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The first Ronald McDonald was Willard Scott in 1963.
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The first South Park episode was made with construction paper. It took 3 months to make.
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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 the cartoon "The Jetsons", Jane Jetson is 32 and her daughter Judy is 16, which made Jane a teen mum.
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The janitor from Scrubs was originally a figment of J.D.'s imagination.
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It would take you a week to watch every episode of "The Simpsons" if each episode ran one after the other without stopping.
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Judge Judy makes $45 million a year.
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More than 3000 people auditioned for Afghan model in 2009. Only 10 were women.
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