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Bender from Futurama was named after John Bender from The Breakfast Club.

Ursula from The Little Mermaid is said to be inspired by the drag queen Divine.

Ke$ha is terrified of ghosts.

If you're ever looking to authentically recreate the 'assassin in love with a 12 year old' look, the correct type of plant featured in Luc Besson's gloriously wonderful Leon is an aglaonema.

Mickey Mouse, Goofy, and Donald Duck can all be seen making a brief cameo in The Little Mermaid.

In a 2003 poll in Empire magazine, Dick Van Dyke’s Cockney accent in Mary Poppins came in second in a list of the worst accents.

Ryan Gosling was asked to audition for boy band Backstreet Boys but he turned it down.

Enya was James Cameron's first choice to compose the music for Titanic.

In an early draft of the Who Framed Roger Rabbit? script, Judge Doom was revealed to be the hunter who shot and killed Bambi’s mother.

"Apollo 13" "Armageddon" and "Around the World in 80 Days" are among the movies NASA keeps aboard the International Space Station.

Alred Hitchcock's Psycho was the first American film to show a toilet flushing.

An excerpt from Donald Kaufman's script for The Three can be found in the end credits to Adaptation.

Chuck Norris’ first name is actually Carlos.

Liam Payne’s favourite Pokémon from the Black and White series is Throh.

Saw was filmed in 18 days

Those who own the DVD of Dodgeball will be aware that the happy-go-lucky finale full of lesbians and treasure may well have ended on more of a bleak note, simply cutting as Ben Stiller's White Goodman connects a ball right in Vince Vaughn's oversized face.

Within 3 days of release The Hunger Games has become the highest grossing film for production company Lionsgate.

Jurassic Park Pulp Fiction Forrest Gump and The Shawshank Redemption were all in theatres at the same time in October of 1994.