You’ll Never Believe What Went on Behind the Scenes of These Award-Winning Films

Saving Private Ryan

During the production of Saving Private Ryan, Tom Sizemore was in the midst of battling drug addiction. In an effort to help him stay clean, Steven Spielberg gave him an ultimatum: he would be blood tested every day, and if he failed even once, the role of Horvath would be recast and reshot, even if it was at the very end of production.

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The More You Know

  • While filming Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Shia LaBeouf invested $20,000 in the stock market and ended up making more than $400,000.
  • Fantasia (1940) was originally a short called The Sorcerers Apprentice, but Walt Disney overspent on the score and decided to make it feature length film rather than waste money.
  • "Psycho" was the first time a flushing toilet was shown on screen.
  • The Lion King was originally known as King of the Jungle until someone at Disney finally remembered that lions don’t actually live in jungles.
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