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Big Fish (2003)

Apart from filming in Paris for a single week, the rest of Tim Burton's Big Fish was shot entirely in Alabama—mostly in Wetumpka and Montgomery. The custom movie set for the town of Spectre still remains in Millbrook, Alabama on the private Jackson Lake Island.

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  • Bela Lugosi was buried in full Dracula costume—cape and all.
  • Stanley Kubrick had all the sets and models from the filming of 2001: A Space Odyssey destroyed to prevent a sequel from being made.
  • Peter Ostrum, Charlie from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, never acted in another movie after that and is now a veterinarian.
  • A "Harry Potter" stunt double was paralyzed on the job.
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