The phrase “a red letter day” dates back to 1704, when holy days were marked in red letters in church calendars.
The movie Cleopatra cost $28 million to make in 1963.
The most common telephone exchange number on television is 555.
The largest indoor film set ever built was the landing site for the UFO in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). Constructed inside a 10 million cubic foot hangar in Mobile, Alabama. it was 450 feet long by 250 feet wide and was 90 feet tall.
The largest outdoor film set ever built was the Roman Forum used in The Fall of The Roman Empire (1964). It was 1,312 feet long by 754 feet wide, took 1,100 workers seven months to construct, and rose some 260 feet in the air.
Skull island is the jungle home of King Kong.
