Low Budget Movies That Later Became Massive Blockbusters

The More You Know

• 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.
• Stanley Kubrick had all the sets and models from the filming of 2001: A Space Odyssey destroyed to prevent a sequel from being made.
• 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan are the only two Disney movies where both parents are present and at least one doesn't die.
• The Terminator script was sold for a dollar.