- When asked about “What a ‘flop’ Newsies was,” Christian Bale replied, “You say something bad about Newsies and you have an awful lot of people to answer to.”
- Christian Bale swears never to do another musical again.
- Luke Edwards was offered the lead role in the movie Hook by Stephen Spielberg, at the time of the filming of Newsies, but Kenny Ortega wouldn’t give him up.
- Since the boys had to learn to play the games the real newsies played, they did do things like gambling and in reality Max Casella was the best gambler there. He started teaching the little kids on the set to gamble, and the kids wound up losing they're lunch money to Max. Parents actually called Kenny to complain.
- The songs in the movie were part pre-recorded and part live.
- There actually was going to be a girl newsie at one point
- Most of you probably know this, but if you were wondering yes, Racetrack is played by the same guy (Max Casella) who played Vinnie on the show Doogie Howser M.D. with Neil Patrick Harris.
- Max Casella was dating Doogie Howser M.D.’s Lucy Boryer at the time of filming Newsies. He was embarrassed, and never told anyone, but when he took her to the Newsies set, the other guys asked him questions about her, which embarrassed him even more. He said in an article that sometimes being the oldest newsie on the set was difficult, because most of the others acted very immature, and it annoyed him at times.
- Newsies was originally supposed to be a drama called Hard Promises, in which Jack Kelly had a younger brother who was killed by getting stuck in a wagon wheel.
- Trey Parker was in a boy band called EYC while filming Newsies.
- Dominic Lucero, who played Bumlets, passed away two years after Newsies came out because of cancer.
- Gabriel Damon is actually quite intimidating, despite his size.
- Gabriel Damon spent barely any time on the set with the rest of the Newsies. Kenny Ortega didn't want the Manhattan Newsies to "bond" too much with Gabe off screen because it would show on screen. Spot was supposed to be like mysterious to the other Newsies.
- It was Gabe's idea for Spot to have a "pimp cane."
- Because of child labor laws, the boys were only aloud to shoot until midnight.
- Santa Fe was shot very late at night, and was pushing the midnight filming curfew.
- The movie was filmed in like 90 degree weather. You can see how sweaty the boys are in most scenes.
- Since KONY was originally not in the script and added at the last minute, the boys had to come in for weekend rehearsals.
- The actual shooting of KONY took less than a day.
- It was David and Christian's idea to do the "swing move" in the rally.
- Yes, Ele did punch the wall before punching Morris, but she actually did hurt herself really bad, and that's why she's seen rubbing her hand throughout the whole scene.
- The Newsies set burned down just before filming, but was rebuilt better than the first one.
- A few of the guys on the set had their own “newsies pimps” game going on. That’s where the “Jacky just got laid” thing came from.
- Christian Bale’s dog was supposed to have a role as the Jacobs’ dog, but it wouldn’t cooperate, so it was cut.
- Christian Bale’s sister, Louise Bale, was supposed to have more of a role in the movie as Medda’s assistant, with a song of her own even. She can only be seen in the movie grabbing Medda, after Racetrack is punched at the riot.
- Kenny had a Newsies reunion day where he rented a sailboat, took all the Newsies and their parents out to go sailing and in the middle of coming back the "Skipper" (as Kenny called him) said "Y'know, sometimes if you sing the dolphins will come". So, with that, the Newsies began to sing and sure enough the dolphins came and began to dance.
- When the stage musical opened at the Papermill in 2011 the theater did like a fan day when fans could come to the theater to meet the cast and stuff. A lot of the cast members from the movie as well as Kenny Ortega attended the event and got to talk to fans.
- Most of the actors have no idea that Newsies has such a cult following