"In The Shawshank Redemption, there's a scene where a guy feeds a maggot to a crow.

The American Humane Association made them find a maggot that had died of natural causes to feed to the crow. They wouldn't have given the "no animals were harmed in the making of this film" at the end if they hadn't."

"Monty Python's Life of Brian stirred so much controversy that production company EMC pulled the funding just days before filming was set to begin.

George Harrison heard about this and paid for the entire production of the film with his own money."

"During the filming of The Princess Bride, Mandy Patankin's (Inigo Montoya) father died from cancer. When he came back from the funeral, they had to shoot the scene where he kills the six fingered man. It gives him a special fire in his eyes when he says "I want my father back, you son of a b#tch"."