Movies & TV Facts for Kids

The song "Let It Go" from Frozen was written in just one day by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez.

In E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the candy used to lure E.T. was Reese's Pieces — sales jumped 65% after the movie came out.

Robin Williams improvised so much as the Genie in Aladdin that Disney had about 16 hours of recordings to work with.

The movie Titanic (1997) cost more to make than the actual Titanic ship cost to build, even adjusted for inflation.

Shrek is based on a 1990 picture book by William Steig — the name "Shrek" comes from the German word for "fright."

Jurassic Park (1993) only has about 15 minutes of dinosaur footage in the whole film — 6 minutes of CGI and 9 of animatronics.

The Sound of Music was filmed on location in Salzburg, Austria, and tourists still visit the real spots from the movie.

In early versions of Toy Story, Woody was a mean ventriloquist dummy who bullied the other toys.

Pixar calculated that Carl's house in Up would need 10,297,601 balloons to actually float in real life.

Dumbo (1941) is only 64 minutes long, making it one of the shortest Disney animated feature films.