Top 10 Facts About Disney's Aladdin

1First Animated Movie to Gross Over $200 Million


2The Merchant at the Beginning is the Genie


3Aladdin Was Modeled After Tom Cruise


4There Were Back-Up Choices For Genie


5Robin Williams Had an Argument With Disney


6Jasmine Was Modeled After Jennifer Connelly


7Robin Williams Improvised 16 Hours of Material


8Alan Menken Won Two Oscars For the Film


9Patrick Stewart Turned Down the Role of Jafar


10Maleficent Was the Inspiration for Jafar


11A Whole New World Was Almost Cut Out


12"A Whole New World" was the First and Only Disney Song to Win Song of the Year at the Grammys


13It Was the Highest Grossing Animated Film Until The Lion King


14It Took Eight Weeks from the Original Release to Reach No. 1 at the Theaters


15Aladdin Was the Best-Selling Videotape Until It Was Surpassed by The Lion King


16The Original Version Included a Younger Version of Aladdin and His Mother


17The Genie's Vacation Clothes is a Reference to Robin Williams in a Short Tour Film


18The Movie Sold 52,442,300 Tickets in the United States and Canada