Fox first wanted to open the film on Memorial Day and change the name to 'Doomsday' to avoid the fierce competition on July 4th.
The current exchange rate for 20,000,000 Rupees (the grand prize on 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire') is $411,600 USD.
There are about 88 dialogue-free minutes in the movie.
It took five hours for Doug Jones to get into The Pale Man costume. Once he was in it, he had to look out the nose holes to see where he was going.
The actors stayed in a room for hours on end rehearsing lines without being taped to give them a taste of what it would be like to be cooped up in a room with the same people.
This was the first animated Disney movie to have an interracial romance.
Anne Hathaway suffered from hypothermia while filming in Iceland due to the fact that her astronaut suit was open while filming scenes in the icy water.
Holly Golightly wears the same dresses all the way through the movie, simply changing the accessories to give each outfit a different look.
The prison guards wear uniforms to give the movie a better feel, even though uniforms weren't in use at the time in which the movie is set.
Over the course of filming the many fight scenes, Russell Crowe broke bones in his foot and his hip, and injured both bicep tendons.
Gregory Peck's 9 minute summation speech was nailed in one take.
Anthony Edwards is the only actor who didn't vomit while in the fighter jets.
The scenes where Chris Penn's character had to learn how to dance were added to the script because Penn really could not dance.
The photos on the main character's mirror are actual photos of Sylvester Stallone as a young boy.
The sequence where Darryl slips and falls over on the builder's supplies as he is leaving for work was unscripted, as actor Christopher McDonald genuinely lost his footing.
Sandra Bullock took a pay cut to make the film and agreed to a percentage of the film's profits, which turned out to be considerable.
Judd Apatow was originally planning on using real footage of a woman giving birth. However, he was unable to because he needed a worker's permit for the yet-to-be-born child.
When Lloyd holds up the radio, it is actually playing a song by the group Fishbone. 'In Your Eyes' by Peter Gabriel was added post-production.
The scene in which Kat reads her poem was the first and only take. Kat's tears towards the end of the poem were not planned.
Kathryn Stockett's book on which this film is based was rejected 60 times before it was eventually published.
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