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Trivia: The toy restorer is Geri from the Pixar short 'Geri's game', which ran in cinemas before A Bug's Life.

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Trivia: Russell Crowe keeps the Oscar he won for his role in Gladiator in the chicken coop on his farm to inspire his chickens to lay larger eggs.

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Trivia: For the famous scene where Jack Nicholson breaks down the door with an axe, the crew made a fake door for him to break through, but had to replace it with a real door as the fake one broke too quickly due to Jack Nicholson's prior training as a fireman. This dates to his period of military service in the Air National Guard in 1957. After completing basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, Nicholson performed weekend drills and two-week annual training as a fire fighter assigned to the unit based at Van Nuys Airport. Some sources state they went through 60 doors during filming to get the footage Kubrick wanted.

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Trivia: Chad Stahelski has revealed that he and Reeves have a host of ideas for future instalments in the series, and are happy to keep making future films as long as the audience demand is there. "I enjoy making these movies because there's no limit, " said Stahelski. "We create our own mythology, and we have a studio that both stays out of our way and supports us on the wacky decisions. If people go see the movie, and it makes money, and they came back to us, Keanu and I have ideas for days." https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2018/12/chad-stahelski-and-keanu-reeves-have-plenty-of-ideas-for-more-john-wick-movies/.

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Trivia: Chad Stahelski, the director of the John Wick films, had worked as Keanu Reeves' stunt double for 15 years prior to his directorial debut on this film.

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Trivia: The forests of Endor were filmed in California where they were logging redwoods, so as to get images of trees smashing down during the chase.

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Trivia: Sir Alec Guinness was apparently not a fan of the Star Wars dialogue. A letter was found in 2016 that he wrote to his friend saying "New rubbish dialogue reaches me every other day on wadges of pink paper, and none of it makes my character clear or even bearable."

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Trivia: Nixon's actual voice was used from White House tapes for the scenes where he is on the phone in the Oval Office.

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Trivia: The pages on the floor of Tom Hanks' house were Daniel Ellsberg's original documents from the Pentagon papers.

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Trivia: Tom Hanks collects vintage typewriters, and at the end of filming he took home the Corona Zephyr shown in the newsroom.

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Trivia: The original director was Mamoru Hosoda, an inheritor of the anime mantle, but he was dropped by the studio midway. Hayao Miyazaki took over and completed it.

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Trivia: Howl's castle is quiet when it moves, to reflect the fact that the majority of the castle is made of papier mache.

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Trivia: In the scene with Tim the enchanter (played by John Cleese who also plays sir Lancelot), Lancelot has his face covered as another actor was used. It was the only time he wears a helmet. There's an interview with the actor who stood in for John Cleese about 'my day as a Monty Python extra': https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/mar/31/sitting-around-knitted-chainmail-extra-monty-python-holy-grail 'I wore a helmet over my face and had to be careful where I walked. That was the only downside of taking John's place - nobody can see my face. He starts the scene standing on a pinnacle, with a sheer drop either side. He was up there for nearly an hour, and it was pretty windy. The team kept shouting: "Are you all right?" The extent of my acting involved pretending my imaginary horse was rearing when the bangs went off.'

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Trivia: Alan Rickman and Alfonso Cuaron played a practical joke on Daniel Radcliffe while filming 'The Prisoner of Azkaban' where they placed a fart machine in his sleeping bag, positioned him next to a girl he fancied, and set the farts off during a take that had taken ages to get.

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Trivia: Michael Gambon was cast as Dumbledore after Richard Harris died. He's known for fooling around such as ad-libbing upstage or moving a pencil a couple of inches across a table after a director has set up a shot. "He's a clown," said Matthew Warchus who directed him in 3 other films. "He has the gravitas, and sadness, and extraordinary comic nature of a great clown. And he's also great fun and remarkably easy to work with."

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Trivia: The first live adaptation film of The Hobbit was made by the Soviets for Leningrad children's TV in 1985. It is on YouTube: https://youtu.be/v7Sab9LgUxg.

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Trivia: The character of John Bender, the resident 'criminal' of the gang, inspired Matt Groening to name his law breaking robot 'Bender' in Futurama. John Bender also tells the high school principal 'Eat my shorts' at one point, which became Bart Simpson's catchphrase.

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Trivia: According to John Cleese, George Harrison put in a good amount of money just because he "wanted to see the film."

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Trivia: After studios refused, Monty Python and the Holy Grail was instead financed by the rock stars Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Jethro Tull and Elton John who all saw it as simply 'a good tax write-off."

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Trivia: The use of coconuts in the film was so popular it was later referred to in the German release of the film, which translated the title as Die Ritter der Kokosnuß (Knights of the Coconut).

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