20 Things You Didn't Know About The 40-Year-Old Virgin
7. A Million Feet Of Film Was Shot
Digital filmmaking was still in its infancy when The 40-Year-Old Virgin was released, and so it was instead shot on traditional film, with the production ultimately shooting over a million feet of film, hitting the impressive milestone on the very last day of the shoot.
To provide some context, that equates to a mind-boggling 96:1 ratio between footage shot and footage actually included in the final movie.
Considering that Francis Ford Coppola shot 1.5 million feet of film for Apocalypse Now, that Apatow got two-thirds of the way there on a decidedly more modest, lower-budget comedy is nothing short of insane.
To celebrate shooting a million feet, Technicolour even sent the cast and crew champagne.