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during production, the code title for the incredibles was "tights."
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in star wars: episode ii - attack of the clones, actors auditioning for the part of anakin included ryan phillippe, paul walker, and colin hanks.
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in pirates of the caribbean: the curse of the black pearl, the film's last spoken line, "bring me that horizon," was conceived by johnny depp on the morning the scene was filmed.
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the sixth sense was filmed in sequence.
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in forrest gump, the vietnam scenes of forrest were shot on what is now the ocean point golf course on fripp island, south carolina.
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in the matrix reloaded, trinity uses a genuine hack to get into the matrix. she uses nmap version 2.54beta25 (an actual port scanning tool) to find a vulnerable ssh server, and then proceeds to exploit it using the ssh1 crc32 exploit from 2001.
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in e.t. the extra terrestrial, et's face was modeled after poet carl sandburg, physicist albert einstein and a pug dog.
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in the lion king, one of the bugs that timon pulls out of a knothole during "hakuna matata" is wearing mickey mouse ears.
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in spider-man a welder building sets for the movie was killed 6 march 2001, when a crane toppled onto a construction basket in which he was riding and struck him in the head.
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in independence day, bill pullman used the memory of a decayed tooth which was pulled from his mouth in order to come up with a terrified expression when speaking with the alien invaders.
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in star wars: episode iii the images of the volcanic eruption on mustoufar was real footage of mt. etna in italy which was erupting at the time of production.
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in finding nemo, the pizza planet truck from toy story and a car from the upcoming pixar film cars can be seen driving by the dentist's office.
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during the shooting of harry potter and the chamber of secrets, the part of dobby was played by an orange ball on a stick (he was added digitally later, of course).
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shrek 2 was the first sequel ever nominated for an oscar as best animated feature.
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harrison ford turned down the male lead in 1993's jurassic park.
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a normal major motion picture averages about 200 effects shots. the lord of the rings: the return of the king had 1488.
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in the interpreter during a scene where a shot is fired at an actor, real blanks were not allowed due to a security council meeting that was taking place.
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according to an interview with miranda otto, she originally turned down the part offered her in war of the worlds by steven spielberg as she was newly pregnant, however, spielberg wanted her to play the part and changed the script to incorporate her pregnancy into the role.
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burt reynolds and ed lauter are the only two actors from the original film to appear in the 2005 remake of the longest yard.
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colin farrell broken his ankle and arm after falling down a stairway while filming 2004's alexander.
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in sin city, jessica alba did not know how racy the images of her character nancy were in the comic until after she signed on for the film. the film's script originally had several nude scenes for the character, but alba refused to do any nudity.
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broomsticks were sent out to movie theaters as promotional items for 2005's bewitched.
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daniel radcliffe suffered two ear infections following the underwater filming of harry potter and the goblet of fire.
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steven spielberg and his close friend george lucas each have personal fortunes in excess of 2 billion dollars.
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the crew of almost famous underwent a shooting schedule for the film of ninety-two days.
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for best in show, actress parker posey actually got real braces for her character to wear.
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a total of eighteen writers worked on the script for the 2000 film, charlie's angels.
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julia roberts received an unprecedented salary for her lead role in erin brockovich, making her the first woman to break the $20m barrier.
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thora birch gained 20 pounds for the role of "enid" in ghost world.
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sandra bullock spent some time in rehab clinic to prepare for her role in 28 days.
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edward james olmos was given a chance to reprise his role as castillo in miami vice, but turned it down.
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