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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Jon Heder was paid only $1,000 for his role in Napoleon Dynamite.
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Heath Ledger locked himself in a hotel room for a month to prepare for his iconic role as the Joker in The Dark Knight
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The first Ronald McDonald was Willard Scott in 1963.
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All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
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The first TV commercial showed a Bulova watch ticking onscreen for exactly 60 seconds.
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In 2000, Pope John Paul II gave his blessing to the Pokémon franchise, saying the games did not have "any harmful moral side effects" and were based on "ties of intense friendship."
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