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In this area of the site, we'll be offering you some of the most fascinating, surprising and just plain weird facts about movies and the people who make them - sometimes provided by those movie-makers themselves! Stay tuned...

Brother dearest

Twins Simon and Jared are actually played by the same actor in The Spiderwick Chronicles – Freddie Highmore, who has also starred in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, August Rush and The Golden Compass. 

Bling thing

Armed guards had to come to the set of Gosford Park every day to deliver the jewellery worn by the aristocratic female characters in the movie, as it was all genuine. 

 

Bridge builders

The makers of Les Amants Du Pont Neuf originally began shooting the movie on the actual Pont Neuf bridge in Paris while it was closed for repairs. But when they failed to finish the movie in time and the bridge re-opened to the public, they had to build a life-size replica elsewhere in France - making the finished product one of the most expensive films ever made in the country.