John Hughes shot The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off back to back to save money. He also used the same crew and sets, including the high school with the same posters on the walls.
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Wilson the volleyball, from the movie 'Cast Away', won an award for 'Best Inanimate Object'.
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In the original version of Cinderella the slipper was made out of fur, not glass!
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For each word he said in Terminator 2, Arnold Schwarzenegger was paid $21,429.
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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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In 1997, Kevin Smith was hired by Warner Brothers to write the script for a Superman movie. He was forced to write Superman without the power of flight and he had to fight a giant spider. The movie would’ve starred Nicolas Cage.
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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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London's King's Cross railway station has a platform 9 3/4 in dedication to Harry Potter.
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