Two surfboards left behind during the filming of “Apocalypse Now” are what gave birth to the Filipino surfing community.
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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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Heath Ledger asked Christian Bale to actually beat him for the interrogation scene in the Dark Knight.
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John Swartzwelder, a writer for the Simpsons, used to write episodes while sitting in a booth at a coffee shop "drinking copious amounts of coffee and smoking endless cigarettes". When California passed an anti-smoking law, he bought the diner booth and installed it in his house.
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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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The scene in Skyfall where Daniel Craig is shaved with a classical razor lead to a 400% increase of straight edge razor sales.
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James Bond has killed 150 men and has slept with 44 women since the first movie came out in 1962.
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C3PO is the first character to speak in Star Wars.
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