The Biggest Box Office Hits Filmed in Each State

Wyoming: Close Encounters of the Third Kind

This Steven Spielberg classic sci-fi film was shot across a handful of states but Wyoming’s Devil’s Tower National Monument is the most recognizable location is the entire film.

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The More You Know

  • Toto was paid more than the Munchkins in "The Wizard of Oz".
  • The real Frank Abagnale Jr. appears in Catch Me If You Can as the French policeman who arrests Leo.
  • The names of the taxi driver and the policeman in everybody’s favourite Yuletide outing, It’s A Wonderful Life, are Bert and Ernie. The writers working on Sesame Street at the time claim it’s merely a coincidence.
  • In Saving Private Ryan, all of the main cast were given basic military training except Matt Damon, in the hope that the cast would build a resentment towards him necessary for the role.
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