When Jim Carrey is trying to print out another form, he hides in the roof rafters. He falls after attempting to get down. This really happened and he hit the floor very hard. Carrey and the director went with it and kept rolling.
Paramount Pictures paid Sony over US$100,000 to interrupt filming of this movie for a week so that Jim Carrey could do promotional appearances for A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004).
Téa Leoni seriously injured her shoulder during the coffee shop scene, when her character slid over the counter.
Globodyne's employees lose their retirement savings because they were invested in the company's stocks. The same thing happened at Enron four years earlier.
The end credits include a "special thanks" to former Enron Corporation CEO Kenneth Lay. He was found dead July 5, 2006, almost seven months after this film was released.