Warner Brother's hated the name 'Beetlejuice', and urged Tim Burton to change it to something clever. Burton jokingly suggested calling the movie 'Scared Sheetless', and was horrified when the studio actually liked it.
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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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Sean Connery turned down the role of Gandalf in Lord of the Rings because he didn't understand the script.
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Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear trousers.
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All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
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The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
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Shirley Henderson, the girl who played Moaning Myrtle (the ghost in the bathroom) was actually 37 years old when she played the character in the Harry Potter series.
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