Rather than use CGI, Tim Burton had 40 squirrels trained to crack nuts for Charlie & The Chocolate Factory.
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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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While filming a guest appearance on Star Trek TNG, Stephen Hawking was taken on a tour of the USS Enterprise set. When he saw the Warp Core, he paused, and said “I’m working on that.”
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In the original version of Cinderella the slipper was made out of fur, not glass!
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The janitor from Scrubs was originally a figment of J.D.'s imagination.
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It costs around 2.75 million dollars to make an episode of The Walking Dead, and it pulls in 11 million in commercial revenues for a profit of 8 million an episode
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Heath Ledger asked Christian Bale to actually beat him for the interrogation scene in the Dark Knight.
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The Muppet Show was banned from Saudi Arabian TV because one if its stars was a pig.
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