TV and Film Facts
Fun facts about your favorite TV shows and movies that you didn't know. Trivia about voice actors, Disney, movie theaters, and more.
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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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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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Shirley Henderson, the girl who played Moaning Myrtle (the ghost in the bathroom) was actually 37 years old when she played the character in the Harry Potter series.
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Ming-Na Wen, who portrays The Cavalry on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., was also the voice of Mulan. And she’s 50 years old.
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Peter Cullen, the voice actor who voices Optimus Prime, also voices Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh.
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Because of South Park’s Scientology episode, the Church of Scientology hired people to spy on Matt and Trey to find something on them to use for blackmail. The Church became frustrated when their investigation turned up nothing but the fact that they’re pretty normal people.
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James Bond has killed 150 men and has slept with 44 women since the first movie came out in 1962.
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Heath Ledger asked Christian Bale to actually beat him for the interrogation scene in the Dark Knight.
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Jason Earles played as a teenager in Hannah Montana, but he was actually born in 1977.
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It costs around 2.75 million dollars to make an episode of The Walking Dead, and it pulls in 11 million in commercial revenues for a profit of 8 million an episode
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Michael Jackson tried to buy Marvel Comics in the early 1990s so that he could play Spider-Man in his own movie.
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The police were called 91 times during the filming of the movie "Borat".
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Borat, when supposedly speaking in Kazakh with his partner throughout the film, was actually speaking fluent Hebrew.
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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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The girl who voiced Lilo from "Lilo & Stitch" (Daveigh Chase) was also Samara from The Ring.
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People actually live in the Mos Eisley set from Star Wars.
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For each word he said in Terminator 2, Arnold Schwarzenegger was paid $21,429.
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Before The Simpsons, Matt Groening drew cartoons for Apple computers.
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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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