has been referred to, by film and media critics, as the "year of the threequels", a nickname referring to both the
and several film franchises which premiered or had installments released in 2004, which appear again this year:
, and in a larger sense to the large number of third installment films released that summer, such as:
.
| Month
| Day
| Event |
| January
| 9
| 33rd People's Choice Awards: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest wins Favorite Movie, Favorite Movie Drama, and Favorite On Screen Matchup for Johnny Depp and Keira Knightley. Depp also wins Favorite Male Action Star and Favorite Male Movie Star. |
| January
| 13
| 64th Golden Globe Awards: Major winners include Dreamgirls and Babel. |
| 20
| Little Miss Sunshine is chosen as best picture by the Producers Guild of America. |
| 22
| The Golden Raspberry Awards picks for worst film achievement in 2007 had Little Man and Basic Instinct 2 leading with seven nominations. Other nominees included Lady in the Water, RV, The Shaggy Dog, and Date Movie. |
| 23
| 79th Academy Awards nominations announced, leading films are: |
| 28
| Screen Actors Guild Awards: Helen Mirren, for Best Female Actor, Forest Whitaker, for Best Male Actor, Eddie Murphy, for Best Male Supporting Actor, Jennifer Hudson, for Best Female Supporting Actor. |
| February
| 15
| BAFTA Awards: Major winners include Helen Mirren, Best Actress and Forest Whitaker, Best Actor |
| 24
| Basic Instinct 2 dominates the Golden Raspberry Awards, walking away with 4 awards, including Worst Picture and Worst Actress (Sharon Stone). M. Night Shyamalan wins Worst Director and Worst Supporting Actor for Lady in the Water. Other awards include Shawn and Marlon Wayans for Little Man and Carmen Electra for Scary Movie 4 and Date Movie |
| 25
| 79th Academy Awards: The Departed wins picture and director (Martin Scorsese) and two other awards. Helen Mirren (The Queen) and Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland) win top acting awards for leading roles, while Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls) and Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine) win top acting awards for supporting roles. |
| April
| 25
| The 2007 Tribeca Film Festival opens with notable films such as Spider-Man 3 and Surf's Up. |
| May
| 6
| Spider-Man 3 finishes weekend with a total weekend gross of $151,116,516, breaking the previous record set by Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest. |
| 27
| 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, a Romanian film by Cristian Mungiu wins the top prize, the Palme d'Or, at the Cannes Film Festival. |
| June
| 20
| The American Film Institute holds a revised edition of 100 Years..100 Movies. Citizen Kane retains its place as the greatest movie of the past century. |
| September
| 12
| Producer Gil Cates elects Jon Stewart as emcee for the 80th Academy Awards. |
| November
| 5
| 12,000 writers of the Writers Guild of America go on strike affecting both motion picture and television production, including the Golden Globes and the Academy Awards in 2008. |
| December
| 13
| Nomination for the 65th Golden Globe Awards are announced. Atonement earns the most entries with seven. Charlie Wilson's War follows with five. |
films released between January and March 2007 and of these the top grossing film of the quarter was
which made a total of $209,313,972.
Wide release is a term in the American motion picture industry for a motion picture that is playing nationally on 600 screens or more in the United States and Canada. The following films meet these criteria:
‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release.
| Month
| Day
| Title
| Studio
| Notable Cast |
J
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| 5
| Code Name:The Cleaner
| New Line Cinema
| Cedric the Entertainer, Lucy Liu, Nicollette Sheridan |
| Freedom Writers
| Paramount Pictures
| Hilary Swank, Imelda Staunton, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Glenn, April Lee Hernandez, Mario, Hunter Parrish, Jason Finn |
| Happily N'Ever After
| Lions Gate Films
| animated, voices of Sigourney Weaver, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Andy Dick, Patrick Warburton, Wallace Shawn, George Carlin |
| 12
| Alpha Dog
| Universal Pictures
| Emile Hirsch, Justin Timberlake, Anton Yelchin, Ben Foster, Shawn Hatosy, Bruce Willis, Sharon Stone, Christopher Marquette |
| Primeval
| Buena Vista (Hollywood Pictures)
| Dominic Purcell, Orlando Jones, Brooke Langton, Jurgen Prochnow |
| Stomp the Yard
| Sony (Screen Gems)
| Columbus Short, Meagan Good, Ne-yo, Chris Brown, Darrin Henson, Brian White, Laz Alonzo, Valarie Pettiford, Harry J. Lennix, Jermaine Williams |
| 19
| The Hitcher
| Universal (Rogue Pictures)
| Sean Bean, Sophia Bush, Zachary Knighton, Neal McDonough |
| 26
| Blood & Chocolate
| MGM
| Agnes Bruckner, Hugh Dancy, Olivier Martinez, Bryan Dick, Katja Riemann |
| Catch and Release
| Sony (Columbia Pictures)
| Jennifer Garner, Timothy Olyphant, Sam Jaeger, Kevin Smith, Fiona Shaw, Juliette Lewis |
| Epic Movie
| 20th Century Fox
| Kal Penn, Adam Campbell, Jennifer Coolidge, Jayma Mays, Faune A. Chambers |
| Smokin' Aces
| Universal Pictures
| Ben Affleck, Andy Garcia, Alicia Keys, Ray Liotta, Jeremy Piven, Ryan Reynolds, Peter Berg, Taraji Henson, Chris Pine, Martin Henderson, Jason Bateman, Common, Nestor Carbonell |
F
E
B
R
U
A
R
Y
| 2
| Because I Said So
| Universal Pictures
| Diane Keaton, Mandy Moore, Gabriel Macht, Tom Everett Scott, Lauren Graham, Piper Perabo, Stephen Collins |
| The Messengers
| Sony (Screen Gems)
| Kristen Stewart, Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller, John Corbett |
| 9
| Hannibal Rising
| MGM (Weinstein)
| Gaspard Ulliel, Gong Li, Rhys Ifans, Dominic West, Kevin McKidd, Richard Brake, Stephen Walters, Ivan Marevich, Goran Kostic, Charles Maquignon |
| Norbit
| Paramount (DreamWorks)
| Eddie Murphy, Thandie Newton, Cuba Gooding Jr., Eddie Griffin, Terry Crews, Clifton Powell, Katt Williams, Lester "Rasta" Speight, Marlon Wayans |
| 14
| Daddy's Little Girls
| Lions Gate Films
| Louis Gossett Jr., Gabrielle Union, Idris Elba, Terri J. Vaughn, Tracee Ellis Ross, Tyler Perry |
| Music and Lyrics
| Warner Bros.
| Hugh Grant, Drew Barrymore, Brad Garrett, Kristen Johnston, Campbell Scott, Haley Bennett |
| 16
| Breach
| Universal Pictures
| Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, Laura Linney, Dennis Haysbert, Caroline Dhavernas, Gary Cole, Kathleen Quinlan |
| Bridge to Terabithia
| Buena Vista (Walt Disney Pictures)
| Josh Hutcherson, AnnaSophia Robb, Zooey Deschanel, Robert Patrick |
| Ghost Rider
| Sony (Columbia Pictures)
| Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Wes Bentley, Sam Elliott, Peter Fonda, Donal Logue |
| 23
| The Abandoned
| Lions Gate Films
| Anastasia Hille, Karel Roden, Valentin Ganev, Carlos Reig-Plaza |
| Amazing Grace
| MGM (Samuel Goldwyn Films)
| Ioan Gruffudd, Romola Garai, Youssou N'Dour, Albert Finney, Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Gambon, Rufus Sewell, Ciaran Hinds, Toby Jones |
| The Astronaut Farmer
| Warner Bros.
| Billy Bob Thornton, Virginia Madsen, Bruce Dern, Tim Blake Nelson, Max Thieriot, Jon Gries |
| The Number 23
| New Line Cinema
| Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Danny Huston, Logan Lerman, Lynn Collins, Rhona Mitra |
| Reno 911! : Miami
| 20th Century Fox
| Carlos Alazraqui, Mary Birdsong, Robert Ben Garant, Kerri Kenney-Silver, Thomas Lennon, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Niecy Nash, Cedric Yarbrough |
M
A
R
C
H
| 2
| Black Snake Moan
| Paramount Vantage
| Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci, Justin Timberlake, S. Epatha Merkerson, John Cothran, Michael Raymond-James, Kim Richards, David Banner |
| Wild Hogs
| Buena Vista (Touchstone Pictures)
| John Travolta, Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence, William H. Macy, Ray Liotta, Marisa Tomei, Jill Hennessy |
| Zodiac
| Paramount/Warner Bros.
| David Fincher (director), Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Edwards, Brian Cox, Elias Koteas |
| 9
| 300
| Warner Bros.
| Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham, Dominic West, Vincent Regan, Michael Fassbender, Tom Wisdom, Andrew Pleavin, Andrew Tiernan, Rodrigo Santoro |
| The Ultimate Gift
| Fox Faith Movies
| Abigail Breslin, Drew Fuller, James Garner, Brian Dennehy, Ali Hillis, Bill Cobbs |
| 16
| Dead Silence
| Universal Pictures
| Ryan Kwanten, Amber Valletta, Donnie Wahlberg, Bob Gunton, |
| I Think I Love My Wife
| Fox Searchlight Pictures
| Chris Rock, Kerry Washington, Gina Torres, Edward Herrmann |
| Premonition
| Sony (TriStar Pictures)
| Sandra Bullock, Julian McMahon, Nia Long, Kate Nelligan, Amber Valletta, Peter Stormare |
| 23
| The Hills Have Eyes 2
| Fox Atomic
| Michael McMillian, Jacob Vargas, Flex Alexander, Lee Thompson Young, Eric Edelstein, Daniella Alonso, Jessica Stroup, Ben Crawley, Reshad Strik |
| The Last Mimzy
| New Line Cinema
| Timothy Hutton, Joely Richardson, Rainn Wilson, Michael Clarke Duncan, Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, Chris O'Neil |
| Pride
| Lions Gate Films
| Bernie Mac, Terence Howard, Kimberley Elise, Tom Arnold, Regine Nehy |
| Reign Over Me
| Sony (Columbia Pictures)
| Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, Jada Pinkett Smith, Liv Tyler, Saffron Burrows, Donald Sutherland, Mike Binder |
| Shooter
| Paramount Pictures
| Mark Wahlberg, Michael Pena, Danny Glover, Kate Mara, Elias Koteas, Rhona Mitra, Rade Serbedzija, Ned Beatty |
| TMNT
| Warner Bros./Weinstein
| animated, voices of Chris Evans, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Mako Iwamatsu, Kevin Smith, Patrick Stewart, Ziyi Zhang, Laurence Fishburne, Mitchell Whitfield, James Arnold Taylor, Mikey Kelley, Nolan North |
| 30
| Blades of Glory
| Paramount (DreamWorks)
| Will Ferrell, Jon Heder, Will Arnett, Amy Poehler, Craig T. Nelson, Jenna Fischer, William Fichtner, Romany Malco, Nick Swardson, Rob Corddry |
| Meet the Robinsons
| Buena Vista (Walt Disney Pictures)
| animated, voices of Angela Bassett, Tom Selleck, Harland Williams, Laurie Metcalf, Nicole Sullivan, Adam West, Ethan Sandler, Tom Kenny |
| The Lookout
| Buena Vista (Miramax Films)
| Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode, Isla Fisher |
Wide release is a term in the American motion picture industry for a motion picture that is playing nationally on 600 screens or more in the United States and Canada. The following films meet these criteria:
‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release.
| Month
| Day
| R
| Title
| Studio
| Notable Cast |
A
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R
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L
| 4
|
| Are We Done Yet?
| Sony (Revolution Studios)
| Ice Cube, Nia Long, John C. McGinley, Aleisha Allen, Philip Bolden |
|
| Firehouse Dog
| 20th Century Fox
| Josh Hutcherson, Bruce Greenwood, Dash Mihok, Steven Culp, Bill Nunn |
| 5
|
| The Reaping
| Warner Bros. Pictures
| Hilary Swank, David Morrissey, Idris Elba, AnnaSophia Robb |
| 6
|
| Grindhouse
| Weinstein (Dimension Films)
| Planet Terror - Robert Rodriguez (director), Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodriguez, Michael Biehn, Jeff Fahey, Josh Brolin, Marley Shelton
Death Proof - Quentin Tarantino (director), Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Ferlito, Jordan Ladd, Sydney Poitier, Tracie Thoms, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Zoe Bell |
|
| The Hoax ‡
| Buena Vista (Miramax Films)
| Richard Gere, Alfred Molina, Marcia Gay Harden, Hope Davis, Julie Delpy, Stanley Tucci |
| 13
|
| Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
| First Look Pictures
| animated, voices of Dana Snyder, Dave Willis, Carey Means, Andy Merrill, Matt Maiellaro, Mike Schatz, C. Martin Croker, Neil Peart, Bruce Campbell, Chris Kattan, Fred Armisen |
|
| Disturbia
| Paramount (DreamWorks)
| Shia LaBeouf, David Morse, Sarah Roemer, Carrie-Anne Moss, Aaron Yoo |
|
| Pathfinder
| 20th Century Fox
| Karl Urban, Moon Bloodgood, Russell Means, Ralf Moeller, Clancy Brown |
|
| Perfect Stranger
| Sony (Revolution Studios)
| Halle Berry, Bruce Willis, Giovanni Ribisi, Gary Dourdan |
|
| Redline
| Chicago Pictures
| Nathan Phillips, Nadia Bjorlin, Angus Macfadyen, Tim Matheson, Eddie Griffin |
|
| Slow Burn
| Lions Gate Films
| Ray Liotta, LL Cool J, Mekhi Phifer, Taye Diggs, Jolene Blalock, Chiwetel Ejiofor |
| 20
|
| Fracture
| New Line Cinema
| Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn, Rosamund Pike, Embeth Davidtz, Billy Burke, Cliff Curtis, Fiona Shaw, Bob Gunton |
|
| In the Land of Women
| Warner Independent Pictures
| Adam Brody, Kristen Stewart, Meg Ryan, Olympia Dukakis, Makenzie Vega |
|
| Vacancy
| Screen Gems
| Luke Wilson, Kate Beckinsale, Frank Whaley |
| 27
|
| Kickin' It Old Skool
| Yari Film Group
| Jamie Kennedy, Michael Rosenbaum, Vivica A. Fox, Debra Jo Rupp, Christopher McDonald, Bobby Lee, Miguel A. Núñez Jr. |
|
| Next
| Paramount Pictures
| Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore, Jessica Biel, Tom Kretschmann, Peter Falk |
|
| The Condemned
| Lions Gate Films
| Steve Austin, Vinnie Jones, Nathan Jones |
|
| The Invisible
| Buena Vista (Hollywood Pictures)
| Justin Chatwin, Margarita Levieva, Chris Marquette, Marcia Gay Harden |
M
A
Y
| 2
|
| Waitress ‡
| Fox Searchlight Pictures
| Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion, Cheryl Hines, Jeremy Sisto, Andy Griffith |
| 4
|
| Lucky You
| Warner Bros. Pictures
| Eric Bana, Drew Barrymore, Robert Duvall, Jean Smart, Debra Messing, Robert Downey Jr., Horatio Sanz |
|
| Spider-Man 3
| Sony (Columbia Pictures)
| Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Thomas Haden Church, Topher Grace, Bryce Dallas Howard, Rosemary Harris, J.K. Simmons |
| 11
|
| 28 Weeks Later
| Fox Atomic
| Jeremy Renner, Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Harold Perrineau, Catherine McCormack, Mackintosh Muggleton |
|
| Delta Farce
| Lions Gate Films
| Bill Engvall, Larry the Cable Guy, DJ Qualls, Keith David, Danny Trejo |
|
| Georgia Rule
| Universal Pictures
| Jane Fonda, Lindsay Lohan, Felicity Huffman, Garrett Hedlund |
|
| The Ex
| MGM (Weinstein)
| Zach Braff, Amanda Peet, Jason Bateman, Mia Farrow, Charles Grodin, Donal Logue, Amy Poehler, Fred Armisen, Josh Charles, Yul Vazquez, Paul Rudd, Amy Adams |
| 18
|
| Shrek the Third
| Paramount (DreamWorks)
| animated, voices of Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, Antonio Banderas, Justin Timberlake, John Cleese, Julie Andrews, Rupert Everett, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph |
| 25
|
| Bug
| Lions Gate Films
| Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon, Harry Connick, Jr. |
|
| Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
| Buena Vista (Walt Disney Pictures)
| Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Geoffrey Rush, Bill Nighy, Stellan Skarsgård, Chow Yun Fat, Keith Richards |
J
U
N
E
| 1
|
| Gracie
| New Line (Picturehouse)
| Elisabeth Shue, Carly Schroeder, Andrew Shue, Dermot Mulroney |
|
| Knocked Up
| Universal Pictures
| Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl, Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann, Jonah Hill, Bill Hader, Alan Tudyk, Kristen Wiig |
|
| Mr. Brooks
| MGM
| Kevin Costner, William Hurt, Demi Moore, Dane Cook |
| 8
|
| Hostel: Part II
| Lions Gate Films
| Jay Hernandez, Lauren German, Roger Bart, Bijou Phillips, Heather Matarazzo |
|
| Ocean's Thirteen
| Warner Bros. Pictures
| George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Bernie Mac, Don Cheadle, Al Pacino, Elliott Gould, Casey Affleck, Eddie Jemison, Scott Caan |
|
| Surf's Up
| Sony (Columbia Pictures)
| animated, voices of Shia LaBeouf, Jeff Bridges, Zooey Deschanel, Jon Heder, James Woods, Diedrich Bader |
| 15
|
| Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
| 20th Century Fox
| Michael Chiklis, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Ioan Gruffudd, Julian McMahon, Laurence Fishburne, Andre Braugher, Kerry Washington |
|
| Nancy Drew
| Warner Bros. Pictures
| Emma Roberts, Josh Flitter, Amy Bruckner, Kay Panabaker |
| 22
|
| 1408
| MGM (Weinstein)
| John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Mary McCormack, Tony Shaloub |
|
| A Mighty Heart
| Paramount Vantage
| Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman |
|
| Evan Almighty
| Universal Pictures
| Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman, Lauren Graham, John Goodman, Wanda Sykes, Jimmy Bennett |
| 27
|
| Live Free or Die Hard
| 20th Century Fox
| Bruce Willis, Justin Long, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Timothy Olyphant, Maggie Q, Kevin Smith |
| 29
|
| Evening
| Universal (Focus Features)
| Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close |
|
| Ratatouille
| Buena Vista
| animated, voices of Patton Oswalt, Lou Romano, Brad Garrett, Ian Holm, Peter O'Toole, Janeane Garofalo, Will Arnett, John Ratzenberger |
|
| Sicko
| The Weinstein Company (Lions Gate)
| Michael Moore |
Wide release is a term in the American motion picture industry for a motion picture that is playing nationally on 600 screens or more in the United States and Canada. The following films meet these criteria:
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