After Jane Fonda become a vocal campaigner against the Vietnam War, spiteful American Soldiers began placing stickers of her face in urinals. The stickers are still found in the toilets of American Veteran Legions.

In 1999, a naked Matthew Mcconaughey was arrested in his house after playing bongo drums at 2 am in the morning. He was accused of disturbing the peace, possession of marijuana and resisting arrest.

During the production 'Tiefland', Leni Riefenstahl used imprisoned Roma and Sinti people sourced from concentration camps as extras. Following the production, many of them were murdered at Auschwitz. Riefenstahl later lied saying she had met all the extras again post war.

In 2022, Irish artist Bobby Fingers created an extensive diorama of Mel Gibson's 2006 drunk driving arrest. During the arrest, Gibson made a series of anti-semitic remarks and allegedy attempted suicide by cop. https://buff.ly/3ZZ5rEN

Following the breakup of his marriage, Russell Crowe held an auction called 'The Art of Divorce' on his 54th birthday. The actor earned $3.7 million from selling his collection of props and costumes.

Following the shoot of 'Titanic' in Mexico, local fisherman began to complain that fish populations were declining. The use of chlorine on set led to the pollution of surrounding seawater, decimating the local sea urchin industry, and reducing overall fish levels by a third.

In 1943, the FBI began intercepting a series of suspicious coded letters being sent by US Soldiers to Humphrey Bogart. They were revealed to be games of correspondence chess the actor had begun with the soldiers while shooting 'Casablanca'.

In 1941, striking Disney animators used a guillotine to behead a Walt Disney mannequin. The employees went on strike after the studio fired 24 cartoonists. The successful labour action saw employees reinstated, greater equalisation of pay, clearer salary structure and a grievance procedure.

Red Granite Pictures, the production company behind 'The Wolf of Wall Street' , was alleged to have financed the film with funds stolen from the Malaysian Sovereign Wealth Fund. In March 2018, they agreed to repay $60 million to the US government to settle the allegations.

William Friedkin hired a felon counterfeiter to create prop money for 'To Live and Die in LA' (1985). While the crew initially denied spending the props during production, Friedkin later admitted to using the money after the statute of limitations expired.
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Cary Grant was rumoured to be a spy for both the FBI & British intelligence services during World War 2. He was alleged to have volunteered to help find Nazi sympathisers in Hollywood.

During the shooting of the tanker crash scene in Mad Max 2, stuntman Dennis Williams was ordered to not eat within twelve hours of the stunt in case he had to be rushed to hospital. Williams would later say "I wasn’t worried... I was just hoping the bastard rolls"
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'The Conqueror' (1956) shot 220 km downwind of a Nevada nuclear test site. After 91 members (41%) of the crew were later diagnosed with cancer, people widely began to link the illnesses to the shoot. The causation has since been questioned as it also resembles U.S cancer occurrence rates (40%).

During production of the 1925 film 'The Vanishing American', 14 bison were left on California's Santa Catalina Island. The invasive population eventually grew to number as high as 500 until the island implemented an extensive birth control campaign in 2009.
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During the filming of 'Titanic', more than 50 crew members were hospitalised after eating clam chowder spiked with PCP. Both James Cameron and Bill Paxton were scared they had accidentally consumed "paralytic shellfish neurotoxin". The perpetrator was never caught.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Il loved movies that much he published 'On the Art of the Cinema' (1973) and later kidnapped South Korean director Shin Sang-ok to help improve North Korean cinema.