Mary Poppins (1964)

The “Step in Time” sequence had to be filmed twice because of a scratch on the film from the first take. The entire sequence took a week to film.

American Beauty (1999)

Alan Ball was inspired to write the script when he was sitting at the World Trade Center plaza and saw a paper bag floating in the wind.

Django Unchained (2012)

After an accident in training where Christoph Waltz was thrown off his horse and broke his pelvis, Jamie Foxx gave him a gift to make him feel better about riding a horse - a saddle with a seat belt!

Home Alone (1990)

Joe Pesci kept forgetting that he was filming a “family” movie during his character’s on-screen outbursts, so director Chris Columbus advised him to say “fridge” instead of the “F-word”.

Frankenstein (1931)

Boris Karloff having a snack in-between filming!

Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)

According to Mark Hamill, studio executives were unhappy that Chewbacca has no clothes and attempted to have the costume redesigned with shorts.

Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

The actors snorted crushed B vitamins for scenes involving cocaine. Although their noses felt uncomfortable, it gave them more energy to perform their scenes.

Avatar (2009)

Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Anthony Hopkins invented the fast, slurping-type sound that Hannibal Lecter does. He did it spontaneously during filming on the set, and everyone thought it was great.

The Matrix (1999)

How the effects were created for this film were truly revolutionary for the time. See all those black circles spiraling around the green screen? Those are cameras, and the ‘bullet time’ effects in The Matrix were achieved by all of those firing at nearly the same time during key shots.

Sin City (2005)

Godzilla (1988)

We all know that the original Godzilla movies were a bunch of folks in rubber costumes, but somehow that doesn’t make this photo any less incredible.

The Dark Knight (2008)

Christopher Nolan asked Aaron Eckhart not to perform any tics or slurping noises as Two-Face to make the character less “showy”.

American Psycho (2000)