Rather than use CGI, Tim Burton had 40 squirrels trained to crack nuts for Charlie & The Chocolate Factory.
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In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role.
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The Simpsons are responsible for popularizing the word 'meh'.
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In real life, Pocahontas was 11 years old when she met John Smith - he was 28.
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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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Jon Heder was paid only $1,000 for his role in Napoleon Dynamite.
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