Wilson the volleyball, from the movie 'Cast Away', won an award for 'Best Inanimate Object'.
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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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Sean Connery turned down the role of Gandalf in Lord of the Rings because he didn't understand the script.
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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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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 first South Park episode was made with construction paper. It took 3 months to make.
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Jason Earles played as a teenager in Hannah Montana, but he was actually born in 1977.
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Eminem was offered the lead role in the 2013 sci-fi movie, Elysium. He was interested but he turned it down due to one major condition not being met; Elysium would have to be shot in his hometown, Detroit.
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