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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Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, prefers the movie version to his own novel.
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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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The most popular sport as a topic for a film is boxing.
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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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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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The mask used by Michael Myers in the original 'Halloween' was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
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Wilson the volleyball, from the movie 'Cast Away', won an award for 'Best Inanimate Object'.
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