• This movie was originally scheduled to be released on February 24, but was changed to February 10, two weeks earlier than the original set release.
• According to the Internet Movie Database, the film was supposed to run 115 minutes, but was cut down to 92 minutes, due to reshoots.
• The Final Destination 3 movie trailer has been seen attached to Derailed, King Kong, Saw II, The Ringer, Just Friends, Hostel, Glory Road, BloodRayne (film), Underworld: Evolution and the Wedding Crashers DVD.
• The connections to the previous Final Destination films is the character of Carrie Dreyer (Gina Holden), whose cousin, Blake Dreyer (Christine Chatelain) died on the plane in the first movie, that Flight 180 is mentioned by Kevin, and that when Wendy finds a picture showing the car pileup from FD2( though there was no mention of the premonition or and anything related to FD2,fans of the series should know what that is when they see the picture)
• The HICE Pale Ale truck that blocks in Kevin's car at the Fat Burger joint is the same truck that Kimberly notices passing her just before the car pileup happens in FD2.
• The title was previously known as Cheating Death: Final Destination 3 & Final Destination 3-D.
• 3-D was considered for the film, but it was deemed too expensive and complicated.
• The film has gone through a few re-shoots for the final version.
• The end of the book is not like the end of the movie and so as the mention of the two people in the second movie. They re-shot scenes with a train station ending, surprise information of the two people in Final Destination 2, and more.
• Tony Todd, who played the mysterious mortician in the first two films and was not expected to return for the third , will have a cameo. Less than a month before release the filmmakers decided to draft Todd in for a voiceover role. The actor’s deep intonations will now be heard as the demonic host of the doomed roller coaster that the movie’s victims/heroes board at the beginning of the movie.
• There are three TV spots that are aired on Fox Broadcasting Company, the WB Television Network and the American Broadcasting Company which show more of the movie than the theatrical trailer.
• When the new ending (the subway train ending) was being filmed, Kimberley and Officer Burke from Final Destination 2 were supposed to be on the subway train that crashes with Wendy, Kevin, and Julie. But due to scheduling problems, A.J. Cook and Michael Landes could not make it.
• The tanning bed scene was based on two urban legends. One is the legend of a bride-to-be, in some versions a sorority girl, who wanted the perfect tan but ended up cooking her insides by over-using tanning beds. The second legend involves The Ohio Player's hit song "Love Rollercoaster" which plays during the tanning scene. The legend goes that the scream heard at the beginning of the song is that of a women being murdered while the song was being recorded. Both these legends were also featured in the Urban Legend horror film series. "Love Rollercoaster" was heard in the first installment while the third installment, Urban Legends: Bloody Mary, featured a tanning bed death scene.