Famous Movies That Have Been Banned All Over the World

Battle Royale

You probably didn't know this, but it's widely assumed that this movie inspired The Hunger Games. Much like how The Hunger Games introduces its premise, Battle Royale selects several young individuals from a Japanese grade school and isolates them on a remote island. The students are then forced to murder one another until only one remains.

The More You Know

Keanu Reeves used his profit from The Matrix to buy a motorcycle for all of the movie's stuntmen.
Novelist and screenwriter Nick Hornby is brother-in-law to novelist and screenwriter Robert Harris.
Fantasia (1940) was originally a short called The Sorcerers Apprentice, but Walt Disney overspent on the score and decided to make it feature length film rather than waste money.
While filming ‘The Machinist,’ Christian Bale only ate an apple and a can of tuna each day. His goal was to weigh 100 pounds before producers stopped him.

Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.