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• Released in 1941, what is the only Disney animated feature film with a title character that never speaks? Dumbo.
• Actor ​​John Ratzenberger, best known for playing Cliff on Cheers, has voiced a character in every Pixar film to date. He's the only actor to do so.
• Tom Hanks was not paid for the Forrest Gump film. Instead, he took percentage points which ultimately netted him in the region of forty million dollars.
• There are over 200 artificial languages that have been invented for books, television, and movies.
• The scene in Titanic when the grand staircase is flooded had to be filmed in one take as the entire set would be destroyed by the water.
• Daniel Radcliffe trained underwater in a tank for 6 months before beginning filming on the 4th Harry Potter film's underwater scenes.
• Heath Ledger hid away in a motel room for about six weeks to prepare for his role as The Joker. During this time, Ledger delved deep into the psychology of the character.
• Instead of going to dinner and movie, go to the movie first and then dinner. This way at dinner you have something to talk about.
• In 1992's A Few Good Men, Jack Nicholson went off-script while filming, and changed the line "You already have the truth!" to the famous, "You can't handle the truth!"
• Nicole Kidman fractured two ribs and injured her knee while rehearsing a dance routine for the film. Many of the scenes where she is seen only from the chest up, including "a real actress," were shot while she was in a wheelchair.
• In order to connect with the feeling of loss required to play the role on "The Pianist", Adrien Brody got rid of his apartment, sold his car, and disconnected his phones.
• During the famous icing-on-the-face scene in Mrs. Doubtfire, the icing kept melting due to the intense heat from the set lights, so Robin Williams improvised most of the scene.
• After the release of the animated film Ratatouille, pet rat sales jumped by 50%.
• The star of Napoleon Dynamite, John Heder, was only paid $1,000 for his role.
• What is the only Disney song to win a Grammy Award for Song of the Year? "A Whole New World".
• Shirley Henderson, the actress who played Moaning Myrtle, the lonely teenage ghost in the Harry Potter franchise was 36 years old during filming.
• Robert De Niro improved the famous line "You talkin' to me?" in the film Taxi Driver.
• Bruce Willis was considered a comedic actor before playing John McLane in Die Hard. He only got the part after 10 other famous actors turned it down. After Die Hard, Willis became a staple in the action genre.
• The Wolf of Wall Street broke records when the f-word was used 506 times, or 2.81 times per minute, in the film.
• The Michael Myers face mask in "Halloween" is just a Captain Kirk/William Shatner face mask. They spray-painted the face white, teased out the hair, and reshaped the eye holes.