The Muppet Show was banned from Saudi Arabian TV because one if its stars was a pig.
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After Disney threatened to sue three day care centers for unauthorized use of their characters, Hanna-Barbera gave them the right to use Universal characters as decorations.
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London's King's Cross railway station has a platform 9 3/4 in dedication to Harry Potter.
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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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Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, prefers the movie version to his own novel.
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On April Fool’s Day, 1976, the BBC convinced many listeners that a special alignment of the planets would temporarily decrease gravity on Earth. Phone lines were flooded with callers who claimed they felt the effects.
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