The Brothers Karamazov (1958) marked the Hollywood debut of William Shatner who played Alexi Karamazov. The film featured Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, and Claire Bloom.

Steven Spielberg and Melissa Mathison wrote a script during shooting breaks on the location of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Mathison was there to visit her husband, Harrison Ford and Spielberg dictated to her a story idea he had; that script was eventually called E.T. the Extra Terrestrial (1982).

The house that got firebombed in Lethal Weapon had previously served as the family home in "The Partridge Family" and the Kravitzes' home in "Bewitched".

When Wong (Jackie Chan) presses his foot against a red-hot vat while pushing off an assailant, his foot catches on fire. He puts it out by kicking at water thrown from a bucket by one of his friends.

The blue laser lights used in the alien ship's egg chamber were borrowed from The Who. The band was testing out lasers for their stage show in the soundstage next door.

Logan's Run depicts a dystopian future society in which population and the consumption of resources are maintained in equilibrium by killing everyone who reaches the age of thirty. The story follows the actions of Logan, a Sandman charged with enforcing the rule, as he tracks down "runners", citizens who try to escape the killing--only to end up "running" himself.

During rehearsals, Andrew Garfield showed up with a copy of Economics for Dummies. Jesse Eisenberg, inspired by Garfield's commitment, purchased C++ for Dummies, but gave up after reading only the introduction.

Each frame (1/24 of a second) of the CGI scenes in the movie Avatar (2009) took an average of 47 hours to render.

In Rocky, the boxer's dog is a Bullmastiff named Butkus. Butkus was a Christmas gift from Adrian to keep Rocky company while he trained.

Narrated principally through flashbacks, the story of Citizen Kane is told from the perspective of a newsreel reporter trying to solve the mystery of the newspaper magnate's dying word: "Rosebud." As the film ends, the camera reveals that "Rosebud" is the trade name of the sled on which the eight-year-old Kane was playing on the day that he was taken from his home.