Trivia: Ted Dekker, author of the novel this movie was based on, liked to hide three scratches (like the book's cover) on set for crew and cast to find. Sometimes he hid the scratches on the on-screen set for the camera to catch and for the audience to find. How many can you find? I can find seven.
Trivia: The spacesuit that the character Charles Farmer wore is a replica of the pressure suit used by the Mercury 7 astronauts.
Trivia: The plot of the movie is based on a 1934 play Thunderstorm by Yu Cao, a Chinese playwright, set in the 10th-century imperial China court. The Mandarin Chinese movie title is taken from the last line of a poem by a 9th-century rebel leader who was at war against the Tang Dynasty.
Trivia: Eddie Murphy, who received a Best Supporting Actor nomination for this film at the Academy Awards, reportedly stormed out of the building after losing the award to Alan Arkin.
Trivia: Catherine Tate plays James McAvoy's mother in the movie, even though in real life she's only 11 years older than him.
Trivia: Anytime one of the characters click on "Do you want to meet a ghost?", they all click the "to".
Trivia: During the movie, Miranda Priestley never shouts or yells. Meryl Streep (actress) was inspired by Clint Eastwood, who can intimidate others while staying relatively quiet.
Trivia: Although Adrian Brody was officially the star of "Hollywoodland," his character (private detective Louis Simo) was a completely fictional role in the movie. Virtually all of the other characters in the film are based on real people, but there never was a Louis Simo, and he's not based on any actual person (s). George Reeves' mother did hire an attorney and a detective agency in real life; however, "Hollywoodland" director Allen Coulter said that the character of Louis Simo wasn't even partially based on anyone in real life.