300,000 extras appear in the first scene of Gandhi.
King Kong's roar was creating by combining the roar of a tiger and a lion and then rewinding it in slow motion.
The makeup for The Planet of the Apes made up nearly 20% of the budget.
Eddie Murphy nearly played Jules in Pulp Fiction.
Shawshank Redemption was nominated for seven Oscars. It didn't win anything.
Christopher Plummer hated working on The Sound of Music so much that he was drunk most of the time.
The Wicked Witch never says, "Fly, my pretties, fly" in The Wizard of Oz.
Ozzy Osbourne thought This is Spinal Tap was a real documentary.
So much chainmail was made for The Lord of the Rings films that the crew members wore their fingerprints off of their fingers.