Interesting movie facts

June 25, 2009 | In: Random interesting fact

The Godfather was the first movie in over twenty years in which Marlon Brando was required to audition.

It took $7,500,000 to build the Titanic, approximately 20,000,000 tons of iceberg to sink it, and $200,000,000 to make a movie about it.

In the movie E.T. there is a scene where the young boy lures the extraterrestrial with some Reese’s pieces. Originally Spielberg was going to use M+M’s, but he could not get the rights. Reese’s pieces were the replaceme

Tupac was cast in Menace II Society (1993) but was fired after a fist-fight with the film’s director, he auditioned for the part of Bubba in Forrest Gump (1994), and won a role in the film Woo (1998) but was shot and killed five days before filming began.

Sylvester Stallone wrote the script for Rocky and sold it for a very low price, on the condition that he star in the movie and receive a share of the profits. Rocky went on to win three Oscars, including best picture. It made Stallone’s movie career.

A single, charming man named Ed Gein was the main inspiration for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), and Norman Bates from Psycho (1960).