There was a cable network called The Puppy Channel that, for 3 years, broadcast only broadcast footage of puppies playing.
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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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Walt Disney was a high school dropout and he was fired by a newspaper editor because "he lacked imagination and had no good ideas."
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Jon Heder was paid only $1,000 for his role in Napoleon Dynamite.
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In Jurassic Park, the T-Rex wasn't supposed to come through and break the glass roof of the explorer during the attack scene, subsequently producing the noticeably genuine screams from the children.
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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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Heath Ledger asked Christian Bale to actually beat him for the interrogation scene in the Dark Knight.
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In Ice Age, the drawings of characters during the end credit roll - and Sid's drawing of himself on a wall - were all done by the children of the animators.
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