Inside the Studios: 35 Fascinating Facts About Hollywood Film Studios

The MGM lion's roar we see in MGM films nowadays is actually a tiger's roar. Originally the roar was that of a lion, but in 1982, Mark Mangini redid the sound since "lions don't make that kind of ferocious noises, and the [MGM] logo needed to be ferocious and majestic."

27. The MGM lion's roar present in today's films is actually a tiger's roar. Originally the roar was that of a lion, but in 1982, Mark Mangini redid the sound since "lions don't make that kind of ferocious noises, and the [MGM] logo needed to be ferocious and majestic."

28. Universal Pictures originally considered Tarantino's screenplay From Dusk till Dawn as the follow-up to Demon Knight and the second in a proposed Tales from the Crypt film trilogy, but ultimately produced another vampire film, Bordello of Blood, instead.

29. Warner Bros. decided to hire Tim Burton to direct Batman due to the financial success of Pee-Wee's Big Adventure.

30. While marketing ‘The Fourth Kind’ movie, Universal Pictures, created fake news stories of alien abductions and posted them online using the names of actual Alaskan news outlets. Those outlets sued and won.

Warner Bros. claimed to have made a loss of $167 million on ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’, despite it grossing close to $1 billion worldwide.

32. Warner Bros. kept George Clooney's return to ER in the episode "Such Sweet Sorrow" a secret by submitting a version of the episode without him to NBC and at the last minute submitting an "Edited" version that included his cameo, without any time for NBC to screen it before it aired.

33. In 1933, Columbia Pictures released ‘Mussolini Speaks,’ which was a documentary praising Mussolini and how good he was to the Italian people. It has never been released on DVD.

34. Because Universal Pictures declined to pay Finish film rating authorities, DVD copies of Little House on the Prairie are rated adults only in Finland.

35. In 1997, Warner Bros. Pictures spent $15 million producing the movie ‘Trojan War’ that only played in one theater for one week, grossing just $309 in box office revenue.