No. 259.

One of the working titles for Citizen Kane for John Q.

(Source: IMDB.)

No. 258.

Casablanca was adapted from a play called Everybody Comes to Rick's.

(Source: IMDB.)

No. 247.

To amuse each other between takes, the cast of The Thick of It would perform impersonations of Darth Vader saying mundane things.

(Source: Chain Reaction interview with Chris Addison.)

No. 238.

The motorbike riden by Henry Winkler in Happy Days is the same one used by Steve McQueen in The Great Escape.
(Source: Twitter - somebody asked Winkler if the fact was true.)

No. 234.

One of the directors in a BBC meeting said that the presenter on the Film programme appeared to have worn a wig and that he wouldn't stand for it. Barry Norman had in fact simply been having a bad hair day.

(Source: Tales of Television Centre.)

No. 204.

Bill Murray only signed up to Garfield because he mistakenly thought writer Etan Cohen was one of the Cohen brothers.

(Source: http://www.totalfilm.com/news/bill-murray-admits-garfield-goof)

No. 202.

Gromit, of Wallace and Gromit fame, was designed to be a talking cat. Nick Park changed him to a mute dog when it became apparent that this would be easier to animate.

(Source: http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-07-10/nick-park---wallace-needed-an-assistant-so-i-drew-a-cat-called-gromit)

No. 201.

Daniel Radcliffe, upon being presented with a picture of Elijah Wood to sign at a Japanese premiere, wrote 'I am not Elijah Wood. Love Daniel Radcliffe.'

(Source: The Graham Norton Show.)

No. 198.

Disney, besides from feature films and cartoons, also produced educational films on subjects ranging from war bonds to how children can protect themselves from the sexual advances of adults.

(Source: The Disney Studio Story by Richard Holliss and Brian Sibley.)

No. 197.

In 1931 Disney short, The Moose Hunt, Pluto is referred to by name for the first time. The cartoon is also notably for being the only time he speaks, or achieves flight by flapping his ears.
(Source: The Disney Studio Story by Richard Holliss and Brian Sibley.)

No. 194.

Danny DeVito did his own German, Italian, Spanish and Russian dubs for The Lorax. He even did the Spanish one twice, so there was a version for Latin America.

(Source: The Graham Norton Show.)

No. 192.

Helena Bonham Carter pays her psychotherapist mother to deliver her verdict on the psychological motivations of her characters in scripts.

(Source: Wikipedia.)

No. 191.

Whilst filming Sleepless in Seattle, the crew discovered a neat little coffee shop called Starbucks. Director Nora Ephron liked it so much that she immediately bought stocks in it.

(Source: http://entertainment.time.com/2012/06/27/nora-ephron-a-life-of-voice-and-detail/)

No. 189.

Actor Jimmy Stewart achieved the military rank of Brigadier General.

(Source: Talking Pictures by Barry Norman. Verified by Wikipedia.)

No. 185.

In The Social Network, Sean Parker buys several round of appletinis. In reality, Mark Zuckerberg had not even heard of the cocktail prior to the film's release, but, once sampling one, liked it enough to make it Facebook's official drink.

(Source: The Internet Movie Database.)

No. 170.

Whilst he was a teenager, Danny DeVito and a few of his friends staged a murder. They chased one of their number down the street, "shot" him with a staring pistol, and then threw him in the back of their car before driving off.

(Source: Empire magazine.)

No. 169.

Christopher Nolan's brother, Jonathan, prefers to be known as Jonah.

(Source: Empire magazine.)

No. 167.

Sarah Millican's kitten is named Chief Brody, after the character in the movie, Jaws.

(Source: Sarah Millican's Twitter feed.)

No. 166.

When offered to appear in adverts for McDonalds, Steve Coogan repeatedly pushed up the possible fee to see how much they would offer, despite not actually wanting the job. The highest figure they were willing to pay was two million pounds. Only then did he turn it down.
(Source: The Graham Norton Show.)

No. 165.

River Phoenix's birth name is River Bottom.

(Source: Have I Got A Bit More News For You. Verified by Wikipedia.)