10 Steven Callahan is a real shipwreck survivor who helped film the movie “Life of Pi” as a technical adviser.

Steven Callahan spent 76 days at sea and drifted over 1,800 miles across the perilous Atlantic in a rubber raft – facing sharks, storms and thirst.(source)

9 The iconic roar that Godzilla made in the 1954 movie was actually created by rubbing a leather glove across the strings of a double bass instrument.

8 There are over 24 minutes of just staring during the Twilight movies.

7 In “Charlie & the Chocolate Factory”, Tim Burton had 40 squirrels trained to crack nuts rather than use CGI.

Tim Burton made a lot of effort to ensure “Charlie & the Chocolate Factory” was as real as possible. Part of this meant training squirrels to crack nuts rather than use readily available computer graphics. Some of the squirrels came from rescues and private homes, while others had to be hand reared and required bottled milk on set.(source)

6 The directors who filmed “Despicable Me” actually wrote a language that the minions speak throughout the movie. They called it “minion-ese” and every word they speak can be translated into English.