The pirate ship in ‘The Goonies’ was real. After filming, the ship was offered for free to anyone who would take it, but nobody wanted it. The ship was scrapped.

Vincent Price’s role as ‘The Inventor’ in ‘Edward Scissorhands’ was specifically written for him. His last scene in the movie is his death, and this death scene was his last film performance before he died.

James Cameron kept a nail gun with him at all times on the set of ‘Avatar’ and would nail cell phones that rang on set during a take to the wall.

In the movie ’23’, Jim Carrey was paid exactly $23 million to act in the movie, and it was Joel Shumacher’s 23rd movie he had directed.

The FBI provided full cooperation in the movie ‘The Silence of the Lambs’. It is reported that this was because they felt it would encourage more females to join the agency.

The crew of ‘Aliens’ placed a balloon hooked up to an air pipe where Sigourney’s butt would rest on the power loader. They then inflated the balloon to make Sigourney think the man inside the power loader suit behind her was getting aroused.

The famous coconut scenes in ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’ were done out of necessity. The production team couldn’t afford horses.

O.J. Simpson was considered for the ‘Terminator’. Producers opted for Arnold because they felt O.J. was too nice to depict a cold blooded killer.

During a ‘Blade Runner’ scene a snake scale is looked at under an electron microscope. It is actually a marijuana bud.

Billy Bob Thorton put glass into his shoes during the filming of ‘Sling Blade’ to make his walk more awkward and consistent.

In ‘A Knights Tale’, when Chaucer (Paul Bettany) acts as herald after the sword duel, nobody in the crowd reacted to the announcement because they were all Czech extras and did not understand English. The loud prompt by Mark Addy was what tipped off the extras to start cheering. This was all left in the final cut.

In ‘The Road’ only one character actually has a name. The old man who refers to himself as Ely.

Every scene in ‘The Shining’ where Jack talks to a ghost, there is a mirror, except for the food locker scene. However, during that scene he talks to the ghost Grady through a shiny metal door.

In ‘Event Horizon’, the rotating corridor that separates the Gravity Drive from the rest of the ship represents the 9 circles of hell. The Gravity Drive represents Hell itself.

Because enthusiasts hiking in the woods after seeing ‘The Blair Witch Project’ scared away a lot of animals, the 1999-2000 hunting season was one of the worst on record.

Film trucks on the set of ‘The Warriors’ were guarded by a real New York gang called The Mongrels. This protection cost $500 a day.

In ‘Predator’, when Arnold Schwarzenegger throws the machete at an enemy and pins him to a wall, he says Stick around. This was ad-libbed by arnold

In the ‘Fight Club’ scene where Tyler Durden is giving the we were all raised to believe that one day we would be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars speech, he says ‘rock stars’ directly to Angel Face played by Jared Leto. Leto formed the band 30 Seconds to Mars the year prior to the movie being made. The band has since had a Platinum album.

In ‘The Descent’, the appearance of the creatures was kept a secret from the cast members until the first scene they encounter one. The actresses were genuinely scared.

The strange music that plays during this Joker scene in ‘The Dark Knight’ was inspired by the sound a razor blade makes when it’s scraped across piano wire.

The alien language in ‘District 9′ was created by rubbing a pumpkin.

According to the Internet Movie Database, the worst movie ever released was ‘Disaster Movie’.