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Trivia: The gloved hand that grabs Han Solo's dice at the end of the movie belongs to director Rian Johnson. (Source: Film School Rejects).

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Trivia: Over a thousand actresses auditioned for the role of Willie Scott, including many soap opera stars and a then unknown Sharon Stone.

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Trivia: The final line of dialogue of the film was not in the script. Kurt Russell came up with it while filming the scene. (Sources: WhatCulture.com, Shortlist.com).

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Trivia: Universal's first choice to direct was Tobe Hooper, who was under contract and considered a better choice. Hooper even wrote two drafts of the screenplay as a horror-comedy, without the shape-shifting elements. After Carpenter was hired and the film made, co-producer Stuart Cohen reportedly said, "We avoided a disaster." (Sources: WhatCulture.com, Variety).

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Trivia: Carl Weathers, Isaac Hayes and Ernie Hudson were all considered for the role of Childs. Hudson almost got the part, but ultimately it went to Keith David due to the tone of his voice. It was David's first major film role. (Sources: WhatCulture.com, Variety).

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Trivia: Nick Nolte and Jeff Bridges were just two notable actors who were offered the role of MacReady but turned it down. Kevin Kline was also briefly suggested by the studio. (Source: WhatCulture.com).

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Trivia: The Hidden City Cafe was a real place in Port Richmond, California. At a dinner in 1994, a group of Pixar guys came up with the ideas for Monster's Inc, Wall-E, A Bug's Life and Finding Nemo. (Source: MTV).

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Trivia: Chuck Jones met his wife thanks to the Grinch. Marian Dern from TV Guide interviewed him about the special, and they got married in 1981.

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Trivia: The Grinch's face is partly based on Chuck Jones' own face. Jones said he tended to sneak his face in without even realizing it. (Source: NPR).

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Trivia: "Star Wars" was the first film to list the entire film crew in the closing credits crawl. Prior to this, the custom was to list only department heads.

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Trivia: "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" was extremely expensive for its time. It cost $315,000 while "A Charlie Brown Christmas," which came out the year before, cost about $76,000. It cost about ten times more than the average half hour of animation at the time. (Source: Saturday Evening Post).

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Trivia: Mister Park's company in the film is called Another Brick because Bong Joon-ho's favorite band while he was in college was Pink Floyd.

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Trivia: When he imagines defeating Black Bart and his gang, Peter Billingsley/Ralphie is chewing real Red Man chewing tobacco. Usually black licorice is used in movies, but director Bob Clark gave him actual chew, which made him sick.

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Trivia: At the end of the film, when Katniss and Peeta are enjoying their life together, their two children are played by Jennifer Lawrence's real-life nephews Bear and Theodore.

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Trivia: The magnetic boots worn by all the inmates in the sea prison are the same boots worn by the Goombas in "Super Mario Bros."

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Trivia: The worms in a tank in the Collector's collection are worms from James Gunn's 2006 film "Slither." (Source: Film School Rejects).

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Trivia: There are no inserts of any of the actors in the funeral scene at the end of the film. Everyone pictured is actually there. The Russo Brothers have called it, "The most complicated scheduling shot in the history of cinema." (Source: Film School Rejects).

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Trivia: Aaron Sorkin wrote dialogue and ideas for the original stage version of "A Few Good Men" on cocktail napkins while he was a waiter at the Palace Theater. He would scribble notes on the napkins whenever he had a chance, and get home with his pockets stuffed with them.

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Trivia: The blossoms on the trees are actually painted popcorn pieces. The crew spent over 800 hours painting 250,000 of them. (Source: Wired magazine).

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Trivia: C-3PO's final line of dialogue, "Did you hear that?" is also the first line he speaks in the entire series, in Episode IV, "A New Hope."

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