James Cameron was so inspired by the movie Star Wars that he quit his job as a truck driver and began his career as a film maker

Francis Ford Coppola used a real horse head for the famous "horse head" scene in the Godfather after deciding the props created for the move weren't good enough to use in the movie

In the original draft of "Back to the Future", the time machine resembles a refrigerator. The idea was dropped due to a fear that children would imitate the movie and lock themselves in refrigerators

Brad Pitt was officially banned from entering China by the Chinese government due to his role in the movie Seven Years in Tibet

"Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" has the highest number of on-screen deaths in a movie at 836