Paula Abdul choreographed sequences for the giant keyboard scene involving Tom Hanks's character in Big.
Emma(1996) Real life mother and daughter Phyllida Law and Sophie Thompson play mother and daughter in the film.
Deborah Moore daughter of the late Sir Roger Moore appeared in the 20th Bond film Die Another Day, she played the air hostess abroad the plane.
This Is England (2006)
Film debuts for Thomas Turgoose and Jack O'Connell
I was watching Jay Leno's Garage earlier on and Dan Akroyd was a guest on a segment that involved them both driving the Ecto-1 car from the remake.Mid conversation it was revealed that Leno had auditioned for and nearly got the role of Louis Tully which eventually went to Rick Moranis.
The French Connection(1971) The group The Three Degrees as themselves in a nightclub scene.
The G1 Transformers Toys weren’t originally Transformers Hasbro bought the rights Off Japanese company Takara, Hasbro then changed the colours of the robots, gave them names and called one set the Autobots and other set Decepticons the rest is history.
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Transformers_(toyline)
Entity FX that did the special effects for the tv series Smallville did the visual effects for Spider-Man 2, The Aviator and Galaxy Quest.
Kirk Douglas was originally cast as Colonel Trautman in First Blood(1982)but due to his ideas for changes in the script that included himself actually taking on the sheriff's department with Rambo,he was replaced by Richard Crenna at a day's notice.
Tom Selleck wasn’t first choice to play Thomas Magnum, the producers wanted actor Kevin Dobson in the role but he turned it down and the rest is history.