The Biggest Box Office Hits Filmed in Each State

Tennessee: Cast Away

While the scenes of Tom Hanks stranded on an island were filmed in Fiji, he is welcomed back to the U.S. at the FedEx headquarters on-site in Memphis. Oddly enough, despite the brand plug, FedEx didn’t have to pay a cent for product placement in the film.

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The More You Know

  • Toto was paid more than the Munchkins in "The Wizard of Oz".
  • For Dr. Strangelove, Peter Sellers was paid $1 million, 55 percent of the film’s budget.
  • During the filming of Star Trek (2009), Zachary Quinto could not manage to properly do the Vulcan salute. Eventually, J.J. Abrams had to glue his fingers together in order for Quinto to do it correctly.
  • The iconic body and hand in the poster for American Beauty belong to actress/model Chloe Hunter, not Mena Suvari.
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