HBO passed up "The Walking Dead" because they thought it was too violent. They also passed up "Breaking Bad" and "Mad Men".
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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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Pokémon is Japanese for Pocket Monsters and Chinpokomon (the South Park parody) is Japanese for Penis Monsters.
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Wilson the volleyball, from the movie 'Cast Away', won an award for 'Best Inanimate Object'.
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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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C3PO is the first character to speak in Star Wars.
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Kermit the frog delivered the commencement address at Southampton College located in the state of New York in 1996.
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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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