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The following is an overview of events in 2006, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.

Highest-grossing films

Highest-grossing films of 2006^[1]
Rank	Title	Distributor	Worldwide gross
1	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	Disney	$1,096,179,725
2	The Da Vinci Code	Columbia	$758,239,851
3	Ice Age: The Meltdown	20th Century Fox	$660,940,780
4	Casino Royale	MGM / Columbia	$599,045,960
5	Night at the Museum	20th Century Fox	$574,480,841
6	Cars	Disney	$462,216,280
7	X-Men: The Last Stand	20th Century Fox	$459,359,555
8	Mission: Impossible III	Paramount	$397,850,012
9	Superman Returns	Warner Bros.	$391,081,192
10	Happy Feet	Warner Bros.	$384,335,608

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest became the third film in cinema history to gross over $1 billion and is the 24th highest-grossing film of all time.

Events

Month	Day	Event
January	4	The Producers Guild of America nominates Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Good Night, and Good Luck, Crash and Walk the Line as contenders for their best-produced film award. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) nominate Crash, Good Night, and Good Luck, I Tried, The 40-Year-Old Virgin and The Squid and the Whale for best original screenplay. The WGA nominees for best adapted screenplay are Brokeback Mountain, Capote, The Constant Gardener, A History of Violence and Syriana.
	5	Jon Stewart is named host of the 78th Academy Awards.
	9	The Broadcast Film Critics Association present their Critics' Choice Awards for the best films of 2005 live on The WB network in the United States. Brokeback Mountain is named best picture, best director for Ang Lee and ties for best supporting actress for Michelle Williams. Philip Seymour Hoffman is named best actor for Capote and Reese Witherspoon is awarded best actress for Walk the Line.
	16	The winners of the 63rd Golden Globe Awards include Brokeback Mountain for best dramatic picture and best director.
	19	The 2006 Sundance Film Festival starts in Park City, Utah.
	24	Disney announces plans to acquire Pixar
	28	The Directors Guild of America names Ang Lee best film director of 2005 for Brokeback Mountain, best documentary goes to Werner Herzog for Grizzly Man and its Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Clint Eastwood.
	29	The Screen Actors Guild names Philip Seymour Hoffman outstanding male movie actor for Capote, Reese Witherspoon as outstanding female lead movie actor for Walk the Line, Rachel Weisz as outstanding female actor in a supporting role for The Constant Gardener, Paul Giamatti as outstanding male actor in a supporting role for Cinderella Man the cast of Crash as outstanding ensemble in a theatrical motion picture, and Shirley Temple Black is given a life achievement award.
	30	The 26th Annual Golden Raspberry Awards nominees include Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, Dirty Love, The Dukes of Hazzard, House of Wax and Son of the Mask for worst film; Tom Cruise, Will Ferrell, Jamie Kennedy, The Rock and Rob Schneider for worst actor; and, Jessica Alba, Hilary Duff, Jennifer Lopez, Jenny McCarthy and Tara Reid for worst actress.
	31	The Academy Awards for best film achievement in 2005 had nominated primarily independent films. Brokeback Mountain led the nominations with 8, followed by Crash, Good Night, and Good Luck and Memoirs of a Geisha all earning six.
February	5	The 33rd annual Annie Award - Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit won the best animated feature, as well as all nine categories which it was nominated. Family Guy won the best voice acting and directing, Star Wars: Clone Wars II Chapters 21-25 won the best animated TV production, Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch won the best home entertainment award, and Ultimate Spider-Man won the new "best video game award".
February	6	Disney re-acquires the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit from NBCUniversal, in exchange for ABC letting commentator Al Michaels work on NBC Sunday Night Football.
March	4	Dirty Love dominates the 26th Golden Raspberry Awards with 4 awards including Worst Picture and Worst Actress for Jenny McCarthy. Rob Schneider took home for Worst Actor for his performance in Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo. Other awards went to Hayden Christensen as Worst Supporting Actor for Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith and Paris Hilton as Worst Supporting Actress for House of Wax
	5	78th Academy Awards: Crash earns a win for Best Picture upsetting favorite Brokeback Mountain. No film, for the first time in 58 years, won a clear majority. Both films as well as Memoirs of a Geisha and King Kong win three Oscars each. Favorite March of the Penguins wins Oscar for Documentary Feature. South Africa wins its first motion picture Oscar with the Best Foreign Film award for Tsotsi. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit wins Oscar for Animated feature film. Major awards as follows: Director: Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman for Capote Actress: Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line Supporting Actor: George Clooney for Syriana Supporting Actress: Rachel Weisz for The Constant Gardener
	13	11th Empire Awards: Pride & Prejudice and Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith win the most awards with two.
April	18	Tom Cruise and fiancée Katie Holmes welcomed their newborn baby Suri.
	25	The 5th annual Tribeca Film Festival opens with notable films such as United 93 and Mission: Impossible III.
	28	TV double act Ant & Dec make their big screen debut with Alien Autopsy.
May	17	The 2006 Cannes Film Festival began in Cannes, France. It continued until May 28. It was hosted by Vincent Cassel. Films in competition included Babel by Alejandro González Iñárritu, Fast Food Nation by Richard Linklater, Iklimler by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, El Laberinto del Fauno by Guillermo del Toro, Marie Antoinette by Sofia Coppola, Southland Tales by Richard Kelly, Volver by Pedro Almodóvar, and The Wind That Shakes the Barley by Ken Loach
May	27	Brad Pitt and Oscar-winner Angelina Jolie give birth to daughter Shiloh in the African nation of Namibia.
June	3	The 2006 MTV Movie Awards winners were announced.
June	14	The American Film Institute releases its ninth list of its AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers recognizing 100 films as the most "inspirational" in cinema history. Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life is named the most "inspirational" film of all time.
July	7	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest opens later grossing $55.8 million on its opening day, setting records for the largest opening day, the largest single day gross, and the largest Friday gross of all time (the previous record was held by Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith with $50,013,859, the previous year). It also surpassed the opening weekend gross (at $135,634,554 between July 7–9) previously set by Spider-Man in 2002 with $114,844,116 between May 3–5.
July	28	Actor and Oscar-winning director producer Mel Gibson is arrested after speeding on Pacific Coast Highway due to a DUI. Police reports later reveal stinging anti-Semitic comments made to the officer (a Jew). Gibson checked into rehab and issued several statements apologizing for his rude comments. See Mel Gibson DUI incident for more details.
September	7	Ellen DeGeneres is named host of the 79th Academy Awards.
September	7-16	The 2006 Toronto International Film Festival takes place.
December	7	64th Golden Globe Awards nominees are announced. Babel leads nominations with seven.

Awards

Category/Organization	64th Golden Globe Awards January 15, 2007		12th Critics' Choice January 20, 2007	13th Screen Actors Guild Awards	60th BAFTA Awards February 11, 2007	79th Academy Awards February 25, 2007
Category/Organization	Drama	Musical or Comedy	12th Critics' Choice January 20, 2007	13th Screen Actors Guild Awards	60th BAFTA Awards February 11, 2007	79th Academy Awards February 25, 2007
Best Film	Babel	Dreamgirls	The Departed	N/A	The Queen	The Departed
Best Director	Martin Scorsese The Departed			N/A	Paul Greengrass United 93	Martin Scorsese The Departed
Best Actor	Forest Whitaker The Last King of Scotland	Sacha Baron Cohen Borat	Forest Whitaker The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress	Helen Mirren The Queen	Meryl Streep The Devil Wears Prada	Helen Mirren The Queen
Best Supporting Actor	Eddie Murphy Dreamgirls				Alan Arkin Little Miss Sunshine
Best Supporting Actress	Jennifer Hudson Dreamgirls
Best Screenplay, Adapted	Peter Morgan The Queen		Michael Arndt Little Miss Sunshine	N/A	Jeremy Brock and Peter Morgan The Last King of Scotland	William Monahan The Departed
Best Screenplay, Original	Peter Morgan The Queen		Michael Arndt Little Miss Sunshine	N/A	Michael Arndt Little Miss Sunshine
Best Animated Film	Cars			N/A	Happy Feet
Best Original Score	The Painted Veil Alexandre Desplat		The Illusionist Philip Glass	N/A	Babel Gustavo Santaolalla
Best Original Song	"The Song of the Heart" Happy Feet		"Listen" Dreamgirls	N/A	N/A	"I Need to Wake Up" An Inconvenient Truth
Best Foreign Language Film	Letters from Iwo Jima			N/A	Pan's Labyrinth	The Lives of Others

2006 wide-release films

January–March

*‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release*
Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre	Medium
J A N U A R Y	6	BloodRayne	Boll KG Productions	Uwe Boll (director); Guinevere Turner (screenplay); Kristanna Loken, Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Matthew Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Will Sanderson, Billy Zane, Udo Kier, Michael Paré, Meat Loaf	Fantasy, Action, Horror
		Grandma's Boy	20th Century Fox / Level 1 Entertainment / Happy Madison Productions	Nicholaus Goossen (director); Allen Covert, Nick Swardson, Barry Wernick (screenplay); Allen Covert, Doris Roberts, Nick Swardson, Linda Cardellini, Shirley Jones, Shirley Knight, Peter Dante, Joel David Moore, Jonah Hill, Kevin Nealon	Comedy
		Hostel	Screen Gems / Lions Gate Films	Eli Roth (director/screenplay); Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson, Eyþór Guðjónsson, Barbara Nedeljáková, Rick Hoffman, Jennifer Lim	Horror
	13	Glory Road	Walt Disney Pictures / Jerry Bruckheimer Films	James Gartner (director); Gregory Allen Howard, Chris Cleveland, Bettina Gilois (screenplay); Josh Lucas, Derek Luke, Jon Voight, Austin Nichols, Evan Jones, Alphonso McAuley, Tatyana Ali	Sports, Drama
		Hoodwinked!	The Weinstein Company / Kanbar Entertainment	Cory Edwards, Todd Edwards, Tony Leech (directors/screenplay); Anne Hathaway, Glenn Close, James Belushi, Patrick Warburton, Anthony Anderson, David Ogden Stiers, Xzibit, Chazz Palminteri, Andy Dick	Comedy, Crime, Family	Animation
		Last Holiday	Paramount Pictures / ImageMovers	Wayne Wang (director); Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman (screenplay); Queen Latifah, LL Cool J, Timothy Hutton, Gérard Depardieu, Alicia Witt, Giancarlo Esposito, Susan Kellermann, Michael Nouri	Comedy, Drama
		Tristan and Isolde	20th Century Fox / Scott Free Productions / Franchise Pictures	Kevin Reynolds (director); Dean Georgaris (screenplay); James Franco, Sophia Myles, Rufus Sewell, Mark Strong, Henry Cavill, David O'Hara	Epic, Drama, Drama
	20	End of the Spear	Rocky Mountain Pictures	Jim Hanon (director/screenplay); Bill Ewing, Bart Gavigan (screenplay); Louie Leonardo, Chad Allen, Jack Guzman, Christina Souza, Sean McGowan, Beth Bailey	Drama, Christian
	20	Underworld: Evolution	Screen Gems / Lakeshore Entertainment	Len Wiseman (director); Danny McBride (screenplay); Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Tony Curran, Shane Brolly, Steven Mackintosh, Derek Jacobi, Bill Nighy	Action, Horror
	24	Wristcutters: A Love Story	Autonomous Films	Goran Dukić (director/screenplay); Patrick Fugit, Shannyn Sossamon, Shea Whigham, Leslie Bibb, Tom Waits, Mark Boone Junior, Will Arnett	Black Comedy, Romance, Road
	27	Annapolis	Touchstone Pictures	Justin Lin (director); Dave Collard (screenplay); James Franco, Tyrese Gibson, Jordana Brewster, Roger Fan, Donnie Wahlberg, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Chi McBride, Brian Goodman, Charles Napier	Drama
		Big Momma's House 2	20th Century Fox / Regency Enterprises	John Whitesell (director); Don Rhymer (screenplay); Martin Lawrence, Nia Long, Zachary Levi, Mark Moses, Emily Procter, Kat Dennings, Chloë Grace Moretz	Comedy, Crime
		Nanny McPhee	Universal Pictures / StudioCanal / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Working Title Films	Kirk Jones (director); Emma Thompson (screenplay); Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Kelly Macdonald, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Angela Lansbury, Eliza Bennett, Raphaël Coleman, Imelda Staunton	Fantasy, Comedy, Family
F E B R U A R Y	3	Something New	Focus Features	Sanaa Hamri (director); Kriss Turner (screenplay); Sanaa Lathan, Simon Baker, Blair Underwood, Donald Faison, Alfre Woodard, Earl Billings, Wendy Raquel Robinson, Mike Epps	Romance, Drama
	3	When a Stranger Calls	Screen Gems / Davis Entertainment	Simon West (director); Jake Wade Wall (screenplay); Camilla Belle, Brian Geraghty, Katie Cassidy, Clark Gregg, Tommy Flanagan, Tessa Thompson, Derek de Lint, Kate Jennings Grant, David Denman	Horror
	10	Curious George	Universal Pictures / Imagine Entertainment	Matthew O'Callaghan (director); Ken Kaufman (screenplay); Will Ferrell, Drew Barrymore, David Cross, Eugene Levy, Joan Plowright, Dick Van Dyke, Frank Welker	Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
		Final Destination 3	New Line Cinema / Hard Eight Pictures / Zide/Perry Productions	James Wong (director/screenplay); Glen Morgan (screenplay); Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ryan Merriman, Kris Lemche, Alexz Johnson, Amanda Crew, Jesse Moss, Gina Holden, Texas Battle	Supernatural, Horror
		Firewall	Warner Bros. Pictures / Village Roadshow Pictures / Beacon Pictures / Thunder Road Pictures	Richard Loncraine (director); Joe Forte (screenplay); Harrison Ford, Paul Bettany, Virginia Madsen, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Jimmy Bennett, Carly Schroeder, Robert Forster, Robert Patrick, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Alan Arkin	Crime, Thriller
		The Pink Panther	Columbia Pictures / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Shawn Levy (director); Steve Martin, Len Blum (screenplay); Steve Martin, Kevin Kline, Jean Reno, Emily Mortimer, Henry Czerny, Kristin Chenoweth, Roger Rees, Beyoncé Knowles	Comedy, Family
	17	Date Movie	20th Century Fox / Regency Enterprises	Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer (directors/screenplay); Alyson Hannigan, Adam Campbell, Jennifer Coolidge, Tony Cox, Fred Willard, Eddie Griffin, Carmen Electra, Judah Friedlander	Comedy, Romance, Spoof
		Eight Below	Walt Disney Pictures / Spyglass Entertainment / Mandeville Films	Paul Walker, Bruce Greenwood, Moon Bloodgood, Jason Biggs, August Schellenberg, Wendy Crewson, Belinda Metz	Adventure, Drama, Family
		Freedomland	Columbia Pictures / Revolution Studios	Joe Roth (director); Richard Price (screenplay); Samuel L. Jackson, Julianne Moore, Edie Falco, Ron Eldard, William Forsythe, Aunjanue Ellis, Anthony Mackie, LaTanya Richardson, Clarke Peters	Drama, Mystery, Thriller
	24	Doogal	The Weinstein Company	Dave Borthwick, Jean Duval, Frank Passingham (directors); Butch Hartman (screenplay); Daniel Tay, Jimmy Fallon, Whoopi Goldberg, Jon Stewart, William H. Macy, Chevy Chase, Kevin Smith, Ian McKellen, Judi Dench, Kylie Minogue, Bill Hader	Adventure, Fantasy	Animation
		Madea's Family Reunion	Lionsgate	Tyler Perry (director/screenplay); Tyler Perry, Blair Underwood, Keke Palmer, Lynn Whitfield, Lisa Arrindell Anderson, Jenifer Lewis, Rochelle Aytes, Boris Kodjoe	Comedy, Drama
		Running Scared	New Line Cinema / Media 8 Entertainment	Wayne Kramer (director/screenplay); Paul Walker, Cameron Bright, Vera Farmiga, Chazz Palminteri, Karel Roden, Johnny Messner, Ivana Miličević, Michael Cudlitz, John Noble	Crime, Thriller
M A R C H	3	16 Blocks	Warner Bros. Pictures / Alcon Entertainment / Millennium Films / The Donners Company	Richard Donner (director); Richard Wenk (screenplay); Bruce Willis, Mos Def, David Morse, Jenna Stern, Casey Sander, Cylk Cozart, David Zayas	Crime, Thriller
		Aquamarine	Fox 2000 Pictures	Sara Paxton, Emma Roberts, JoJo, Jake McDorman, Arielle Kebbel, Claudia Karvan, Bruce Spence, Tammin Sursok	Comedy, Fantasy
		Dave Chappelle's Block Party	Rogue Pictures	Michel Gondry (director); Dave Chappelle (screenplay); Dave Chappelle, Kanye West, Mos Def, Common, John Legend	Documentary
		Ultraviolet	Screen Gems	Kurt Wimmer (director/screenplay); Milla Jovovich, Cameron Bright, Nick Chinlund, William Fichtner	Sci-Fi, Action, Thriller
	10	Failure to Launch	Paramount Pictures	Tom Dey (director); Tom J. Astle, Matt Ember (screenplay); Matthew McConaughey, Sarah Jessica Parker, Zooey Deschanel, Justin Bartha, Bradley Cooper, Terry Bradshaw, Kathy Bates	Romance, Comedy
		The Hills Have Eyes	Fox Searchlight Pictures	Alexandre Aja (director/screenplay); Grégory Levasseur (screenplay); Aaron Stanford, Kathleen Quinlan, Vinessa Shaw, Emilie de Ravin, Dan Byrd, Robert Joy, Ted Levine	Horror
		The Shaggy Dog	Walt Disney Pictures / Mandeville Films	Brian Robbins (director); Cormac Wibberley, Marianne Wibberley, Geoff Rodkey, Jack Amiel, Michael Begler (screenplay); Tim Allen, Robert Downey, Jr., Kristin Davis, Danny Glover, Spencer Breslin, Jane Curtin, Zena Grey, Philip Baker Hall	Comedy, Family
	17	She's the Man	DreamWorks Pictures / Lakeshore Entertainment	Andy Fickman (director); Karen McCullah Lutz, Kirsten Smith (screenplay); Amanda Bynes, Channing Tatum, Laura Ramsey, David Cross, Vinnie Jones, Alexandra Breckenridge, Robert Hoffman, Jonathan Sadowski, Emily Perkins	Sports, Comedy
		Thank You for Smoking	Fox Searchlight Pictures	Jason Reitman (director/screenplay); Aaron Eckhart, Maria Bello, Cameron Bright, Adam Brody, Sam Elliott, Katie Holmes, David Koechner, Rob Lowe, William H. Macy, J.K. Simmons, Robert Duvall	Comedy, Drama
		V for Vendetta	Warner Bros. Pictures / Virtual Studios / Silver Pictures	James McTeigue (director); The Wachowskis (screenplay); Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, John Hurt, Stephen Fry, Tim Pigott-Smith and Rupert Graves	Political thriller
	24	Inside Man	Universal Pictures / Imagine Entertainment / 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks	Spike Lee (director); Russell Gewirtz (screenplay); Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe, Chiwetel Ejiofor	Crime, Thriller
		The Secret	Prime Time Productions / Dharma Production	Drew Heriot (director)	Documentary
		Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector	Lionsgate	Trent Cooper (director); James Greer, Jonathan Bernstein (screenplay); Larry the Cable Guy, Iris Bahr, Bruce Bruce, Joanna Cassidy, Brooke Dillman, Tony Hale, David Koechner, Lisa Lampanelli, Megyn Price, Thomas F. Wilson, Joe Pantoliano	Comedy
		Stay Alive	Hollywood Pictures / Spyglass Entertainment / Endgame Entertainment	William Brent Bell (director/screenplay); Matthew Peterman (screenplay); Jon Foster, Samaire Armstrong, Frankie Muniz, Jimmi Simpson, Milo Ventimiglia, Sophia Bush, Adam Goldberg, Wendell Pierce	Slasher
		Unidentified	Five & Two Pictures / Cornerstone Television	Rich Christiano (director/screenplay); Jonathan Aube, Josh Adamson, Michael Blain-Rozgay, Rebecca St. James, Jenna Bailey, Lance Zitron	Sci-fi, Christian
	31	ATL	Warner Bros. Pictures / Overbrook Entertainment	Chris Robinson (director); Tina Gordon Chism (screenplay); Tip "T.I." Harris, Lauren London, Evan Ross, Jackie Long, Jason Weaver, Big Boi, Lonette McKee, Mykelti Williamson, Keith David	Drama
		Basic Instinct 2	Columbia Pictures / Constantin Film / C2 Pictures	Michael Caton-Jones (director); Henry Bean, Leora Barish (screenplay); Sharon Stone, David Morrissey, Charlotte Rampling, David Thewlis, Flora Montgomery, Heathcote Williams, Hugh Dancy	Erotic thriller
		Ice Age: The Meltdown	20th Century Fox Animation / Blue Sky Studios	Carlos Saldanha (director); Peter Gaulke, Gerry Swallow, Jim Hecht (screenplay); Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, Seann William Scott, Josh Peck, Will Arnett, Jay Leno, Alan Tudyk, Chris Wedge	Comedy, Adventure, Family	Animation
		Slither	Universal Pictures / Gold Circle Films / Strike Entertainment	James Gunn (director/screenplay); Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks, Gregg Henry, Michael Rooker, Tania Saulnier, Jenna Fischer, Haig Sutherland, Matreya Fedor	Sci-Fi, Horror, Comedy

April–June

*‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release*
Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre	Medium
A P R I L	7	The Benchwarmers	Columbia Pictures / Revolution Studios / Happy Madison Productions	Dennis Dugan (director); Allen Covert, Nick Swardson (writers); Rob Schneider, David Spade, Jon Heder, Jon Lovitz, Nick Swardson, Craig Kilborn, Molly Sims, Tim Meadows	Comedy, Sports
		Friends with Money	Sony Pictures Classics / This Is That Productions	Nicole Holofcener (director/screenplay); Jennifer Aniston, Joan Cusack, Catherine Keener, Frances McDormand, Jason Isaacs, Scott Caan, Simon McBurney, Greg Germann	Comedy, Drama
		Lucky Number Slevin	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / The Weinstein Company / Ascendant Pictures / FlimEngine	Paul McGuigan (director); Jason Smilovic (screenplay); Josh Hartnett, Lucy Liu, Ben Kingsley, Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Stanley Tucci, Peter Outerbridge, Kevin Chamberlin	Crime, Thriller
		Phat Girlz	Fox Searchlight Pictures	Nnegest Likké (director/screenplay); Mo'Nique, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Godfrey, Kendra C. Johnson, Dayo Ade, Jack Noseworthy, Eric Roberts	Comedy
		Take the Lead	New Line Cinema	Liz Friedlander (director); Dianne Houston (screenplay); Antonio Banderas, Alfre Woodard, John Ortiz, Rob Brown, Yaya DaCosta, Dante Basco, Elijah Kelley, Jenna Dewan	Drama, Dance
	14	Scary Movie 4	The Weinstein Company / Dimension Films / Miramax Films	David Zucker (director); Jim Abrahams, Craig Mazin, Pat Proft (screenplay); Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Craig Bierko, Bill Pullman, Anthony Anderson, Carmen Electra, Chris Elliott, Kevin Hart, Cloris Leachman, Michael Madsen, Molly Shannon, Charlie Sheen, Leslie Nielsen, Shaquille O'Neal	Comedy, Horror, Spoof
	14	The Wild	Walt Disney Pictures	Steve Williams (director); Ed Decter, John J. Strauss, Mark Gibson, Philip Halprin (screenplay); Kiefer Sutherland, Jim Belushi, Eddie Izzard, Janeane Garofalo, William Shatner, Richard Kind, Greg Cipes, Colin Cunningham, Patrick Warburton	Comedy, Adventure, Family	Animation
	21	American Dreamz	Universal Pictures	Paul Weitz (director/screenplay); Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid, Marcia Gay Harden, Willem Dafoe, Mandy Moore, Sam Golzari, Chris Klein, Jennifer Coolidge, Seth Meyers, Tony Yalda, Noureen DeWulf, Shohreh Aghdashloo	Comedy
		The Sentinel	20th Century Fox / Regency Enterprises	Clark Johnson (director); George Nolfi (screenplay); Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland, Eva Longoria, Martin Donovan, Kim Basinger	Action, Crime, Thriller
		Silent Hill	TriStar Pictures	Christophe Gans (director/screenplay); Roger Avary (screenplay); Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Deborah Kara Unger, Laurie Holden, Jodelle Ferland, Alice Krige, Kim Coates, Tanya Allen	Horror
	28	Akeelah and the Bee	Lionsgate / 2929 Entertainment / Starbucks Entertainment	Doug Atchison (director/screenplay); Keke Palmer, Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett, Curtis Armstrong, J.R. Villarreal, Sean Michael Afable, Erica Hubbard, Lee Thompson Young	Drama
		Alien Autopsy	Warner Bros. Pictures	Jonny Campbell (director); William Davies (screenplay); Ant McPartlin, Declan Donnelly, Bill Pullman, Harry Dean Stanton, Omid Djalili, Jimmy Carr, Götz Otto, Morwenna Banks, John Shrapnel	Comedy, Sci-fi
		RV	Columbia Pictures / Relativity Media / Red Wagon Productions / Intermedia Films	Barry Sonnenfeld (director); Geoff Rodkey (screenplay); Robin Williams, Cheryl Hines, Josh Hutcherson, Joanna "JoJo" Levesque, Jeff Daniels, Kristin Chenoweth, Hunter Parrish, Alex Ferris, Will Arnett	Comedy, Road, Family
		Stick It	Touchstone Pictures / Spyglass Entertainment	Jessica Bendinger (director/screenplay); Missy Peregrym, Jeff Bridges, Vanessa Lengies, Maddy Curley, Nikki SooHoo, Kellan Lutz, John Patrick Amedori, Tarah Paige, Jon Gries, Gia Carides	Comedy, Drama, Sports
		United 93	Universal Pictures / Working Title Films	Paul Greengrass (director/screenplay); Christian Clemenson, Cheyenne Jackson, David Alan Basche, Peter Hermann, Corey Johnson, Richard Bekins, Michael J. Reynolds, Khalid Abdalla, David Rasche, Rebecca Schull, Denny Dillon	Biography, Drama, Thriller
M A Y	5	An American Haunting	Freestyle Releasing / After Dark Films / Remstar	Courtney Solomon (director/screenplay); Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek, James D'Arcy, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Matthew Marsh, Miquel Brown	Horror
		Art School Confidential	Sony Pictures Classics / United Artists	Terry Zwigoff (director); Daniel Clowes (screenplay); Max Minghella, Sophia Myles, John Malkovich, Anjelica Huston, Jim Broadbent, Matt Keeslar, Ethan Suplee, Joel David Moore	Comedy, Drama
		Hoot	New Line Cinema / Walden Media / The Kennedy/Marshall Company	Wil Shriner (director/screenplay); Logan Lerman, Brie Larson, Luke Wilson, Cody Linley, Tim Blake Nelson, Neil Flynn, Robert Wagner, Kiersten Warren, Clark Gregg	Comedy, Family
		Mission: Impossible III	Paramount Pictures / China Film Group Corporation / Cruise/Wagner Productions	J. J. Abrams (director/screenplay); Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci (screenplay); Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ving Rhames, Billy Crudup, Michelle Monaghan, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Keri Russell, Maggie Q, Laurence Fishburne and Simon Pegg	Action, Spy
	12	Goal!	Touchstone Pictures	Danny Cannon (director); Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, Mike Jefferies, Adrian Butchart (screenplay); Kuno Becker, Alessandro Nivola, Marcel Iureş, Stephen Dillane, Anna Friel, Tony Plana, Kieran O'Brien, Sean Pertwee	Sports, Drama
		Just My Luck	20th Century Fox / Regency Enterprises / Cheyenne Enterprises / Silvercup Studios	Donald Petrie (director); I. Marlene King, Amy B. Harris, James Greer, Jonathan Bernstein (screenplay); Lindsay Lohan, Chris Pine, Faizon Love, Missi Pyle, Samaire Armstrong, Bree Turner, Makenzie Vega, Carlos Ponce, McFly	Romance, Comedy
		Poseidon	Warner Bros. Pictures / Virtual Studios	Wolfgang Petersen (director); Mark Protosevich (screenplay); Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas, Richard Dreyfuss, Jacinda Barrett, Emmy Rossum, Mike Vogel, Mia Maestro, Jimmy Bennett, Andre Braugher Kevin Dillon, Stacy Ferguson	Disaster
	19	The Da Vinci Code	Columbia Pictures / Imagine Entertainment / Skylark Productions	Ron Howard (director); Akiva Goldsman (screenplay); Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen, Alfred Molina, Jürgen Prochnow, Jean Reno, Paul Bettany	Mystery, Thriller
		Over the Hedge	Paramount Pictures / DreamWorks Animation	Tim Johnson, Karey Kirkpatrick (director); Len Blum, Lorne Cameron, David Hoselton, Karey Kirkpatrick (screenplay); Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling, Steve Carell, Wanda Sykes, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, William Shatner, Avril Lavigne, Nick Nolte, Thomas Haden Church, Allison Janney	Comedy, Family	Animation
		See No Evil	Lionsgate / WWE Studios	Gregory Dark (director); Dan Madigan (screenplay); Kane, Samantha Noble, Christina Vidal, Michael J. Pagan, Rachael Taylor, Penny McNamee, Craig Horner	Slasher
	26	X-Men: The Last Stand	20th Century Fox / Marvel Entertainment / Dune Entertainment / The Donners' Company	Brett Ratner (director); Simon Kinberg, Zak Penn (screenplay); Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Famke Janssen, Kelsey Grammer, Anna Paquin, James Marsden, Rebecca Romijn, Shawn Ashmore, Vinnie Jones	Action, Superhero
J U N E	2	The Break-Up	Universal Pictures	Peyton Reed (director); Jeremy Garelick, Jay Lavender (screenplay); Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Aniston, Joey Lauren Adams, Ann-Margret, Judy Davis, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jon Favreau, Cole Hauser, Keir O'Donnell, John Michael Higgins, Justin Long	Romance, Comedy, Drama
	6	The Omen	20th Century Fox	John Moore (director); David Seltzer (screenplay); Julia Stiles, Liev Schreiber, Mia Farrow, David Thewlis, Pete Postlethwaite, Michael Gambon, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick	Supernatural, Horror
	9	Cars	Walt Disney Pictures / Pixar Animation Studios	John Lasseter (director/screenplay); Dan Fogelman, Joe Ranft, Jorgen Klubien, Kiel Murray, Phil Lorin (screenplay); Owen Wilson, Paul Newman, Bonnie Hunt, Larry the Cable Guy, Tony Shalhoub, Cheech Marin, Jenifer Lewis, George Carlin, Paul Dooley, Michael Keaton, John Ratzenberger, Jeremy Piven	Comedy, Family	Animation
	9	A Prairie Home Companion	Picturehouse / New Line Cinema	Robert Altman (director); Garrison Keillor (screenplay); Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Garrison Keillor, Kevin Kline, Lindsay Lohan, Virginia Madsen, John C. Reilly, Maya Rudolph, Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin	Comedy
	16	The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift	Universal Pictures / Relativity Media / Original Film	Justin Lin (director); Chris Morgan (screenplay); Lucas Black, Nathalie Kelley, Sung Kang, Bow Wow, Brian Tee, Leonardo Nam, Brian Goodman, Zachery Ty Bryan	Action
		Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties	20th Century Fox / Davis Entertainment / Paws, Inc.	Tim Hill (director); Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow (screenplay); Bill Murray, Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Tim Curry, Billy Connolly, Ian Abercrombie, Bob Hoskins, Rhys Ifans, Vinnie Jones, Jim Piddock	Comedy, Family
		The Lake House	Warner Bros. Pictures / Village Roadshow Pictures / Vertigo Entertainment	Alejandro Agresti (director); David Auburn (screenplay); Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Dylan Walsh, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Christopher Plummer, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Willeke van Ammelrooy, Lynn Collins	Romance, Comedy
		Nacho Libre	Paramount Pictures / Nickelodeon Movies	Jared Hess (director/screenplay); Jerusha Hess, Mike White(screenplay); Jack Black, Ana de la Reguera, Hector Jimenez, Peter Stormare, Carla Jimenez, Richard Montoya, Moisés Arias	Sports, Comedy, Family
	21	The Collingswood Story	Anchor Bay Entertainment	Mike Costanza (director/screenplay); Stephanie Dees, Johnny Burton, Grant Edmonds, Vera Madeline	Horror
	23	Click	Columbia Pictures / Revolution Studios / Happy Madison Productions	Frank Coraci (director); Steve Koren, Mark O'Keefe (screenplay); Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale, Christopher Walken, Henry Winkler, David Hasselhoff, Julie Kavner, Sean Astin	Comedy, Fantasy
	23	Waist Deep	Rogue Pictures / Intrepid Pictures	Tyrese Gibson, Meagan Good, Larenz Tate, Kimora Lee Simmons, The Game	Action, Drama
	28	Superman Returns	Warner Bros. Pictures / Legendary Pictures / DC Comics	Bryan Singer (director); Michael Dougherty, Dan Harris (screenplay); Brandon Routh, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey, James Marsden, Parker Posey, Frank Langella, Eva Marie Saint, Kal Penn, Sam Huntington, Tristan Lake Leabu	Superhero
	30	The Devil Wears Prada	Fox 2000 Pictures	David Frankel (director); Aline Brosh McKenna (screenplay); Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, Adrian Grenier, Simon Baker, Gisele Bündchen, Tracie Thoms, Stephanie Szostak	Comedy, Drama

July–September

*‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release*
Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre	Medium
J U L Y	7	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	Walt Disney Pictures / Jerry Bruckheimer Films	Gore Verbinski (director); Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio (screenplay); Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Jack Davenport, Stellan Skarsgård, Bill Nighy, Naomie Harris Kevin McNally, Lee Arenberg, Mackenzie Crook, Tom Hollander, Geoffrey Rush	Swashbuckler, Fantasy
	14	Little Man	Columbia Pictures / Revolution Studios	Keenen Ivory Wayans (director/screenplay); Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans (screenplay); Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Kerry Washington, John Witherspoon, Tracy Morgan, Chazz Palminteri, Molly Shannon	Comedy
	14	You, Me and Dupree	Universal Pictures	Anthony Russo, Joe Russo (directors); Michael LeSieur (screenplay); Owen Wilson, Kate Hudson, Matt Dillon, Michael Douglas, Seth Rogen, Amanda Detmer, Todd Stashwick, Ralph Ting, Bill Hader	Comedy, Romance
	21	Clerks II	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / The Weinstein Company / View Askew Productions	Kevin Smith (director/screenplay); Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Rosario Dawson, Trevor Fehrman, Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith, Jennifer Schwalbach Smith	Comedy
		Lady in the Water	Warner Bros. Pictures / Legendary Pictures / Blinding Edge Pictures	M. Night Shyamalan (director/screenplay); Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard, Bob Balaban, Jeffrey Wright, Sarita Choudhury, Cindy Cheung, Freddy Rodriguez, Bill Irwin, Jared Harris	Fantasy, Thriller
		Monster House	Columbia Pictures / Relativity Media / Amblin Entertainment / ImageMovers	Gil Kenan (director); Dan Harmon, Rob Schrab, Pamela Pettler (screenplay); Mitchel Musso, Sam Lerner, Spencer Locke, Steve Buscemi, Nick Cannon, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kevin James, Jason Lee, Catherine O'Hara, Kathleen Turner, Fred Willard	Comedy, Horror, Family	Animation
		My Super Ex-Girlfriend	20th Century Fox / Regency Enterprises	Ivan Reitman (director); Don Payne (screenplay); Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson, Anna Faris, Eddie Izzard, Rainn Wilson, Wanda Sykes	Superhero, Comedy
	26	Little Miss Sunshine	Fox Searchlight Pictures / Big Beach / Deep River Productions	Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris (directors); Michael Arndt (screenplay); Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Abigail Breslin, Alan Arkin, Paul Dano, Bryan Cranston, Dean Norris, Wallace Langham	Comedy, Drama, Road
	28	The Ant Bully	Warner Bros. Pictures / Legendary Pictures / Playtone / DNA Productions	John A. Davis (director/screenplay); Zach Tyler Eisen, Julia Roberts, Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Paul Giamatti, Regina King, Bruce Campbell, Lily Tomlin, Cheri Oteri, Ricardo Montalbán	Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy, Family	Animation
		John Tucker Must Die	20th Century Fox / Dune Entertainment	Betty Thomas (director); Jeff Lowell (screenplay); Jesse Metcalfe, Brittany Snow, Ashanti, Sophia Bush, Arielle Kebbel, Penn Badgley, Jenny McCarthy, Fatso-Fasano, Patricia Drake, Taylor Kitsch, Kevin McNulty	Romance, Comedy
		Miami Vice	Universal Pictures	Michael Mann (director/screenplay); Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Gong Li, Justin Theroux, Naomie Harris, Ciarán Hinds, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Domenick Lombardozzi	Action, Crime, Thriller
		Scoop	Focus Features / BBC Films / Ingenious Film Partners	Woody Allen (director/screenplay); Scarlett Johansson, Woody Allen, Hugh Jackman, Ian McShane, Charles Dance, Romola Garai, Kevin R. McNally, Julian Glover	Romance, Comedy, Mystery
A U G U S T	4	Barnyard	Paramount Pictures / Nickelodeon Movies / O Entertainment	Steve Oedekerk (director/screenplay); Kevin James, Sam Elliott, Courteney Cox, Wanda Sykes, Danny Glover, Andie MacDowell, David Koechner, Jeffrey Garcia, Tino Insana, Cam Clarke, Rob Paulsen	Comedy, Family	Animation
		The Descent	Lionsgate / Celador	Neil Marshall (director/screenplay); Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid, Saskia Mulder, MyAnna Buring, Nora-Jane Noone, Oliver Milburn	Adventure, Horror
		The Night Listener	Miramax Films / IFC Films / Fortissimo Films	Patrick Stettner (director/screenplay); Armistead Maupin, Terry Anderson (screenplay); Robin Williams, Toni Collette, Rory Culkin, Bobby Cannavale, Sandra Oh, Joe Morton, John Cullum, Lisa Emery	Psychological thriller
		Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby	Columbia Pictures / Relativity Media / Apatow Productions / Mosaic Media Group	Adam McKay (director/screenplay); Will Ferrell (screenplay); Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Sacha Baron Cohen, Michael Clarke Duncan, Leslie Bibb, Gary Cole, Jane Lynch, Amy Adams, Andy Richter	Sports, Comedy
	9	World Trade Center	20th Century Fox / Paramount Pictures	Oliver Stone (director); Andrea Berloff (screenplay); Nicolas Cage, Maria Bello, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Peña, Stephen Dorff, Jon Bernthal, Jay Hernandez, Michael Shannon, Donna Murphy, Frank Whaley, Jude Ciccolella, Danny Nucci	Disaster, Drama
	11	Pulse	The Weinstein Company / Dimension Films / Distant Horizons	Jim Sonzero (director); Wes Craven, Ray Wright (screenplay); Kristen Bell, Ian Somerhalder, Christina Milian, Rick Gonzalez, Zach Grenier, Samm Levine, Octavia Spencer, Ron Rifkin	Horror
		Step Up	Touchstone Pictures / Summit Entertainment / Offspring Entertainment	Anne Fletcher (director); Duane Adler, Melissa Rosenberg (screenplay); Channing Tatum, Jenna Dewan Tatum, Mario, Drew Sidora, Heavy D, Damaine Radcliff, De'Shawn Washington, Rachel Griffiths, Josh Henderson, Alyson Stoner	Dance, Romance
		Zoom	Columbia Pictures / Revolution Studios	Peter Hewitt (director); Adam Rifkin, David Berenbaum (screenplay); Tim Allen, Courteney Cox, Chevy Chase, Rip Torn, Spencer Breslin, Kevin Zegers, Michael Cassidy, Kate Mara, Ryan Newman	Adventure, Superhero
	18	Accepted	Universal Pictures / Shady Acres Entertainment	Steve Pink (director); Adam Cooper, Bill Collage, Mark Perez (screenplay); Justin Long, Blake Lively, Anthony Heald, Jonah Hill, Lewis Black, Adam Herschman, Columbus Short, Maria Thayer, Mark Derwin, Ann Cusack	Comedy
		Kenny	Xenon Pictures / Madman Entertainment	Clayton Jacobson (director/screenplay); Shane Jacobson (screenplay); Shane Jacobson, Eve von Bibra, Clayton Jacobson, Ronald Jacobson, Jesse Jacobson	Mockumentary
		The Illusionist ‡	Yari Film Group	Neil Burger (director/screenplay); Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti, Jessica Biel, Rufus Sewell, Eddie Marsan, Jake Wood	Mystery, Romance
		Material Girls	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Maverick Films	Martha Coolidge (director); Jessica O'Toole, Amy Rardin, John Quaintance (screenplay); Hilary Duff, Haylie Duff, Anjelica Huston, Lukas Haas, María Conchita Alonso, Brent Spiner, Faith Prince, Marcus Coloma, Obba Babatundé, Reagan Dale Neis	Comedy
		Snakes on a Plane	New Line Cinema / Mutual Film Company	David R. Ellis (director); Sebastian Gutierrez, David J. Taylor, John Heffernan (screenplay); Samuel L. Jackson, Julianna Margulies, Nathan Phillips, Bobby Cannavale, Rachel Blanchard, Flex Alexander, Todd Louiso, Sunny Mabrey, Kenan Thompson, Lin Shaye, David Koechner	Action, Thriller
	25	Beerfest	Warner Bros. Pictures / Legendary Pictures	Jay Chandrasekhar (director/screenplay); Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske (screenplay); Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske, Nat Faxon, Will Forte, Ralf Möller, Mo'Nique, Eric Christian Olsen, Jürgen Prochnow, Cloris Leachman	Comedy
		How to Eat Fried Worms	New Line Cinema / Walden Media	Bob Dolman (director); Luke Benward, Hallie Eisenberg, Adam Hicks, Tom Cavanagh, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Austin Rogers, Alexander Gould, Ryan Malgarini, Philip Daniel Bolden, Clint Howard, Ty Panitz, James Rebhorn	Comedy
		Idlewild	Universal Pictures / Atlas Entertainment	Bryan Barber (director/screenplay); André 3000, Big Boi, Paula Patton, Terrence Howard, Faizon Love, Malinda Williams, Cicely Tyson, Macy Gray, Ben Vereen, Bruce Bruce, Bill Nunn, Patti LaBelle, Ving Rhames, Jackie Long	Musical
		Invincible	Walt Disney Pictures	Ericson Core (director); Brad Gann (screenplay); Mark Wahlberg, Greg Kinnear, Elizabeth Banks, Kevin Conway, Michael Rispoli, Kirk Acevedo, Dov Davidoff, Michael Kelly	Sports, Drama
S E P T E M B E R	1	Crank	Lionsgate / Lakeshore Entertainment / Radical media	Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor (directors/screenplay); Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Efren Ramirez, Dwight Yoakam, Keone Young, Reno Wilson	Action, Black comedy
		Crossover	TriStar Pictures / 360 Pictures	Preston A. Whitmore II (director/screenplay); Anthony Mackie, Wesley Jonathan, Wayne Brady, Eva Pigford, Philip Champion, Lil' JJ, Alecia Fears	Sports
		Idiocracy	20th Century Fox	Mike Judge (director/screenplay); Etan Cohen (screenplay); Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews, David Herman, Justin Long, Andrew Wilson, Scarface, Thomas Haden Church, Stephen Root	Comedy, Sci-fi
		The Wicker Man	Warner Bros. Pictures / Alcon Entertainment / Brightlight Pictures / Millennium Films	Neil LaBute (director); Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Beahan, Frances Conroy, Leelee Sobieski, Molly Parker, Diane Delano	Horror
	8	The Covenant	Screen Gems / Lakeshore Entertainment	Renny Harlin (director); J.S. Cardone (screenplay); Steven Strait, Sebastian Stan, Laura Ramsey, Taylor Kitsch, Toby Hemingway, Jessica Lucas, Chace Crawford, Wendy Crewson	Horror, Thriller
		Tom-Yum-Goong	The Weinstein Company	Prachya Pinkaew (director/screenplay); Kongdej Jaturanrasamee, Napalee, Piyaros Thongdee, Joe Wannapin (screenplay); Tony Jaa, Nathan Jones, Petchtai Wongkamlao, Jon Foo, Bongkoj Khongmalai, Xing Jing, Johnny Trí Nguyễn	Action
		The Black Dahlia	Universal Pictures	Brian De Palma (director); Josh Friedman (screenplay); Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart, Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank, Fiona Shaw, Mia Kirshner, Mike Starr, Patrick Fischler, James Otis, John Kavanagh, Rose McGowan	Neo-noir, Crime, Thriller
	15	Everyone's Hero	Fox 2000 Pictures / IDT Entertainment / Arc Productions	Christopher Reeve, Daniel St. Pierre, Colin Brady (directors); Robert Kurtz, Jeff Hand (screenplay); Jake T. Austin, William H. Macy, Rob Reiner, Whoopi Goldberg, Raven-Symoné, Brian Dennehy, Mandy Patinkin, Robert Wagner, Forest Whitaker, Robin Williams, Dana Reeve, Richard Kind, Joe Torre	Sports, Comedy, Family	Animation
		The Last Kiss	Paramount Pictures / DreamWorks Pictures	Tony Goldwyn (director); Zach Braff, Paul Haggis (screenplay); Zach Braff, Jacinda Barrett, Casey Affleck, Rachel Bilson, Blythe Danner, Tom Wilkinson, Michael Weston, Eric Christian Olsen, Harold Ramis	Romance, Comedy, Drama
		Gridiron Gang	Columbia Pictures / Relativity Media / Original Film	Phil Joanou (director); Jeff Maguire (screenplay); Dwayne Johnson, Xzibit, Kevin Dunn, Leon Rippy, L. Scott Caldwell, Jade Yorker, Mo McRae, Setu Taase, Trever O'Brien	Sports, Drama
	16	Ultraman Mebius & Ultraman Brothers	Shochiku	Kazuya Konaka (director); Keiichi Hasegawa (screenplay); Shunji Igarashi, Masaki Nishina, Minoru Tanaka, Ai Saikawa, Daisuke Watanabe, Kenta Uchino, Misato Hirata	Superhero, Kaiju
	22	Fearless	Rogue Pictures	Ronny Yu (director); Chris Chow, Christine To, Wang Bin, Li Feng (screenplay); Jet Li, Collin Chou, Dong Yong, Nakamura Shidō II, Betty Sun, Nathan Jones	Martial Arts
		All the King's Men	Columbia Pictures / Relativity Media / Phoenix Pictures	Steven Zaillian (director/screenplay); Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Anthony Hopkins, James Gandolfini, Patricia Clarkson, Mark Ruffalo, Jackie Earle Haley, Kathy Baker	Drama
		Flyboys	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Ingenious Film Partners / Electric Entertainment	Tony Bill (director); David S. Ward, Phil Sears, Blake T. Evans (screenplay); James Franco, Martin Henderson, Jean Reno, Jennifer Decker, Abdul Salis, Philip Winchester, Tyler Labine, David Ellison	War, Drama
		Jackass Number Two	Paramount Pictures / MTV Films / Dickhouse Productions	Jeff Tremaine (director/screenplay); Spike Jonze (screenplay); Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Chris Pontius, Steve-O, Ryan Dunn, Dave England, Jason Acuña, Preston Lacy, Ehren McGhehey	Comedy
	29	Facing the Giants	Samuel Goldwyn Films / Sherwood Pictures / Provident Films	Alex Kendrick (director/screenplay); Stephen Kendrick (screenplay); Alex Kendrick, Shannen Fields, James Blackwell, Jim McBride, Jason McLeod, Erin Bethea, Tracey Cave	Christian, Sports, Drama
		The Guardian	Touchstone Pictures / Beacon Pictures / Flash Film Works	Andrew Davis (director); Ron L. Brinkerhoff (screenplay); Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher, Sela Ward, Melissa Sagemiller, Clancy Brown, Omari Hardwick	Action, Adventure, Drama
		Open Season	Columbia Pictures / Sony Pictures Animation	Jill Culton, Roger Allers (directors); Steve Bencich, Ron J. Friedman (screenplay); Martin Lawrence, Ashton Kutcher, Gary Sinise, Debra Messing, Billy Connolly, Jon Favreau, Georgia Engel, Jane Krakowski, Patrick Warburton, Gordon Tootoosis	Comedy, Family	Animation
		School for Scoundrels	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / The Weinstein Company / Dimension Films	Todd Phillips (director); Billy Bob Thornton, Jon Heder, Michael Clarke Duncan, Jacinda Barrett, Sarah Silverman, Ben Stiller, David Cross, Matt Walsh, Horatio Sanz	Comedy
	30	The Queen	Miramax Films / Granada Productions	Stephen Frears (director); Peter Morgan (screenplay); Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Helen McCrory, Alex Jennings, Roger Allam, Sylvia Syms, Tim McMullan	Drama

October–December

*‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release*
Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre	Medium
O C T O B E R	6	The Departed	Warner Bros. Pictures	Martin Scorsese (director); William Monahan (screenplay); Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga, Alec Baldwin	Crime, Drama
		Employee of the Month	Lionsgate	Greg Coolidge (director/screenplay); Don Calame, Chris Conroy (screenplay); Dane Cook, Jessica Simpson, Dax Shepard, Andy Dick, Brian George, Harland Williams, Efren Ramirez, Marcello Thedford, Tim Bagley, Danny Woodburn	Comedy
		The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning	New Line Cinema / Platinum Dunes	Jonathan Liebesman (director); Sheldon Turner (screenplay); Andrew Bryniarski, Jordana Brewster, Taylor Handley, Diora Baird, Matt Bomer, Lee Tergesen, R. Lee Ermey	Slasher
		Trailer Park Boys: The Movie	Alliance Atlantis / Odeon Films	Mike Clattenburg (director/screenplay); Robb Wells (screenplay); Robb Wells, John Paul Tremblay, Mike Smith, John Dunsworth, Jonathan Torrens, Patrick Roach, Cory Bowles, Michael Jackson, Lucy DeCoutere, Sarah E. Dunsworth	Comedy, Crime
	13	The Grudge 2	Columbia Pictures / Ghost House Pictures	Takashi Shimizu (director); Stephen Susco (screenplay); Sarah Michelle Gellar, Amber Tamblyn, Arielle Kebbel, Jennifer Beals, Edison Chen, Sarah Roemer, Teresa Palmer	Horror
		Man of the Year	Universal Pictures / Morgan Creek Productions	Barry Levinson (director/screenplay); Robin Williams, Christopher Walken, Laura Linney, Lewis Black, Jeff Goldblum, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler	Comedy, Drama
		The Marine	20th Century Fox / WWE Studios	John Bonito (director); Alan B. McElroy, Michelle Gallagher (screenplay); John Cena, Robert Patrick, Kelly Carlson, Anthony Ray Parker, Abigail Bianca, Damon Gibson, Manu Bennett, Jerome Ehlers, Drew Powell, Jeff Chase	Action
		One Night with the King	Gener8Xion Entertainment	Michael O. Sajbel (director); Stephan Blinn (screenplay); Tiffany Dupont, Luke Goss, John Rhys-Davies, Omar Sharif, Peter O'Toole, Tom Lister Jr., Jonah Lotan, John Noble, James Callis	Epic
	20	Flags of Our Fathers	Paramount Pictures / DreamWorks Pictures / Warner Bros. Pictures / Amblin Entertainment	Clint Eastwood (director); William Broyles Jr., Paul Haggis (screenplay); Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, John Benjamin Hickey, Paul Walker, John Slattery, Barry Pepper, Jamie Bell, Robert Patrick, Neal McDonough and Benjamin Walker	War
		Flicka	Fox 2000 Pictures	Michael Mayer (director); Mark Rosenthal, Lawrence Konner (screenplay); Alison Lohman, Tim McGraw, Maria Bello, Ryan Kwanten, Dallas Roberts, Nick Searcy, Danny Pino	Adventure, Drama
		Marie Antoinette	Columbia Pictures / Tohokushinsha Film / American Zoetrope	Sofia Coppola (director/screenplay); Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Judy Davis, Rip Torn, Rose Byrne, Asia Argento, Molly Shannon, Shirley Henderson, Danny Huston, Steve Coogan, Tom Hardy	Comedy, Drama
		The Prestige	Touchstone Pictures / Warner Bros. Pictures / Newmarket Films	Christopher Nolan (director/screenplay); Jonathan Nolan (screenplay); Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, Andy Serkis, David Bowie	Mystery, Thriller, Drama
	27	Catch a Fire	Universal Pictures / Working Title Films / Mirage Enterprises	Phillip Noyce (director); Derek Luke, Tim Robbins, Bonnie Henna	Biographical, Thriller
		Babel ‡	Paramount Vantage / Anonymous Content / Central Films / Media Rights Capital	Alejandro González Iñárritu (director); Guillermo Arriaga (screenplay); Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael García Bernal, Kōji Yakusho, Adriana Barraza, Rinko Kikuchi, Elle Fanning, Peter Wight, Harriet Walter, Michael Peña	Drama
		Dirty Sanchez: the Movie	Vertigo Films / MTV Europe	Jim Hickey (director); Matthew Pritchard, Michael Locke (The Pain Men), Lee Dainton, Dan Joyce	Reality
		Saw III	Lionsgate / Twisted Pictures	Darren Lynn Bousman (director); Leigh Whannell (screenplay); Tobin Bell, Angus Macfadyen, Shawnee Smith, Donnie Wahlberg, Dina Meyer, Bahar Soomekh, J. Larose	Horror
N O V E M B E R	3	Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan	Fox 2000 Pictures	Larry Charles (director); Sacha Baron Cohen (screenplay); Sacha Baron Cohen, Ken Davitian, Luenell Campbell, Pamela Anderson	Comedy, Mockumentary
		Flushed Away	Paramount Pictures / DreamWorks Animation / Aardman Animations	David Bowers, Sam Fell (directors); Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, Chris Lloyd, Joe Keenan, William Davies (screenplay); Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis, Bill Nighy, Jean Reno, Shane Richie	Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family	Animation
		The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause	Walt Disney Pictures / Boxing Cat Films	Michael Lembeck (director); Ed Decter, John J. Strauss (screenplay); Tim Allen, Martin Short, Elizabeth Mitchell, Ann-Margret, Alan Arkin, Judge Reinhold, Wendy Crewson, Eric Lloyd, Spencer Breslin, Liliana Mumy, Peter Boyle, Kevin Pollak	Christmas, Fantasy, Comedy, Adventure, Family
		Volver ‡	Sony Pictures Classics	Pedro Almodóvar (director/screenplay); Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo, Chus Lampreave	Drama
	9	Breaking and Entering	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / The Weinstein Company / Miramax Films / Alliance Films	Anthony Minghella (director/screenplay); Jude Law, Juliette Binoche, Robin Wright, Rafi Gavron, Martin Freeman, Juliet Stevenson, Ed Westwick, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga	Romance, Crime, Drama
	10	A Good Year	20th Century Fox / Scott Free Productions / Dune Entertainment / Ingenious Film Partners	Ridley Scott (director); Marc Klein (screenplay); Russell Crowe, Albert Finney, Marion Cotillard, Didier Bourdon, Abbie Cornish, Tom Hollander, Freddie Highmore	Romance, Comedy, Drama
		Harsh Times	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	David Ayer (director/screenplay); Christian Bale, Freddy Rodriguez, Eva Longoria, Tammy Trull, Terry Crews, Noel Gugliemi, Craig Ricci Shaynak, J.K. Simmons, Armando Riesco, Emilio Rivera	Crime
		The Return	Rogue Pictures	Asif Kapadia (director); Adam Sussman (screenplay); Sarah Michelle Gellar, Peter O'Brien, Adam Scott, Kate Beahan, Sam Shepard	Horror, Thriller
		Stranger Than Fiction	Columbia Pictures / Mandate Pictures	Marc Forster (director); Zach Helm (screenplay); Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah, Emma Thompson, Tony Hale, Tom Hulce, Linda Hunt	Fantasy, Comedy, Drama
	17	Bobby ‡	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / The Weinstein Company / Bold Films	Emilio Estevez (director/screenplay); Laurence Fishburne, Anthony Hopkins, Helen Hunt, Lindsay Lohan, William H. Macy, Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, Elijah Wood, Harry Belafonte, Joy Bryant, Nick Cannon, Emilio Estevez, Heather Graham, Joshua Jackson, Ashton Kutcher, Shia LaBeouf, Freddy Rodriguez, Martin Sheen, Christian Slater	Drama
		Casino Royale	Columbia Pictures / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Martin Campbell (director); Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, Paul Haggis (screenplay); Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Giancarlo Giannini, Jeffrey Wright, Judi Dench, Caterina Murino, Ivana Miličević, Simon Abkarian	Spy
		For Your Consideration ‡	Warner Independent Pictures / Castle Rock Entertainment / Shangri-La Entertainment	Christopher Guest (director/screenplay); Eugene Levy (screenplay); Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Parker Posey, Jennifer Coolidge, Harry Shearer, Fred Willard, Jane Lynch, Michael McKean, Bob Balaban	Comedy
		Happy Feet	Warner Bros. Pictures / Village Roadshow Pictures	George Miller (director/screenplay); John Collee, Judy Morris, Warren Coleman (screenplay); Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Brittany Murphy, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Hugo Weaving, Anthony LaPaglia, Magda Szubanski, Steve Irwin	Musical, Comedy, Family	Animation
		Let's Go to Prison	Universal Pictures / The Carsey-Werner Company	Bob Odenkirk (director); Robert Ben Garant, Thomas Lennon, Michael Patrick Jann (screenplay); Dax Shepard, Will Arnett, Chi McBride, David Koechner, Dylan Baker, Michael Shannon, Bob Odenkirk	Comedy
	22	Deck the Halls	20th Century Fox / Regency Enterprises / Dune Entertainment	John Whitesell (director); Matt Corman, Chris Ord, Don Rhymer (screenplay); Danny DeVito, Matthew Broderick, Kristin Davis, Kristin Chenoweth, Alia Shawkat, Jorge Garcia, Jackie Burroughs, Fred Armisen	Christmas, Comedy, Family
		Déjà Vu	Touchstone Pictures / Jerry Bruckheimer Films / Scott Free Productions	Tony Scott (director); Bill Marsilii, Terry Rossio (screenplay); Denzel Washington, Paula Patton, Jim Caviezel, Val Kilmer, Adam Goldberg, Bruce Greenwood, Elden Henson, Erika Alexander, Elle Fanning	Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
		The Fountain	Warner Bros. Pictures / Regency Enterprises / Protozoa Pictures	Darren Aronofsky (director/screenplay); Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Ellen Burstyn, Mark Margolis, Stephen McHattie, Cliff Curtis, Sean Patrick Thomas, Donna Murphy, Ethan Suplee	Epic, Romance, Drama
		Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny	New Line Cinema / Red Hour Films	Liam Lynch (director/screenplay); Jack Black, Kyle Gass (screenplay); Jack Black, Kyle Gass, JR Reed, Ronnie James Dio, Ben Stiller, Paul F. Tompkins, Dave Grohl	Musical, Comedy
D E C E M B E R	1	The Nativity Story	New Line Cinema / Temple Hill Entertainment	Catherine Hardwicke (director); Mike Rich (screenplay); Keisha Castle-Hughes, Oscar Isaac, Hiam Abbass, Shaun Toub, Alexander Siddig, Ciarán Hinds, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Stanley Townsend	Drama
		Turistas	Fox Atomic / 2929 Entertainment	John Stockwell (director); Michael Arlen Ross (screenplay); Josh Duhamel, Melissa George, Olivia Wilde, Desmond Askew, Beau Garrett, Max Brown, Agles Steib, Miguel Lunardi	Horror
		Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Myriad Pictures / National Lampoon	Mort Nathan (director); David Drew Gallagher (screenplay); Kal Penn, Lauren Cohan, Daniel Percival, Glen Barry, Anthony Cozens, Holly Davidson	Comedy
	3	Miss Potter	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / The Weinstein Company / Phoenix Pictures	Chris Noonan (director); Renée Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Emily Watson, Bill Paterson, Barbara Flynn	Biographical Fiction, Family, Drama
	8	Unaccompanied Minors	Warner Bros. Pictures / Village Roadshow Pictures / The Donners' Company	Paul Feig (director); Lewis Black, Wilmer Valderrama, Tyler James Williams, Dyllan Christopher, Brett Kelly, Gia Mantegna, Quinn Shephard	Christmas, Comedy, Adventure, Family
		Apocalypto	Touchstone Pictures / Icon Productions	Mel Gibson (director/screenplay); Farhad Safinia (screenplay); Rudy Youngblood, Raoul Trujillo, Mayra Sérbulo, Gerardo Taracena, Israel Contreras, Dalia Hernández, Ian Uriel, Rodolfo Palacios, Bernardo Ruiz Juarez, Ammel Rodrigo Mendoza, Ricardo Diaz Mendoza	Epic, Adventure
		Blood Diamond	Warner Bros. Pictures / Bedford Falls Productions / Virtual Studios / Initial Entertainment Group	Edward Zwick (director); Charles Leavitt (screenplay); Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly, Djimon Hounsou, Michael Sheen, Arnold Vosloo, David Harewood, Basil Wallace, Stephen Collins	War, Thriller
		The Holiday	Columbia Pictures / Universal Pictures / Relativity Media / Waverly Films	Nancy Meyers (director/screenplay); Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Jack Black, Edward Burns, Eli Wallach, Rufus Sewell, Lindsay Lohan, James Franco, Shannyn Sossamon, Kathryn Hahn, Odette Yustman	Romance, Comedy
	15	Charlotte's Web	Paramount Pictures / Walden Media / The K Entertainment Company / Nickelodeon Movies	Gary Winick (director); Susannah Grant, Karey Kirkpatrick (screenplay); Julia Roberts, Dakota Fanning, Dominic Scott Kay, Steve Buscemi, John Cleese, Oprah Winfrey, Cedric the Entertainer, Kathy Bates, Reba McEntire, Robert Redford, Thomas Haden Church, Beau Bridges, Kevin Anderson	Family
		Dreamgirls ‡	Paramount Pictures / DreamWorks Pictures	Bill Condon (director/screenplay); Jamie Foxx, Beyoncé Knowles, Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Hudson, Danny Glover, Anika Noni Rose, Keith Robinson, Sharon Leal	Musical, Drama
		Eragon	Fox 2000 Pictures / Davis Entertainment	Stefen Fangmeier (director); Peter Buchman (screenplay); Edward Speleers, Sienna Guillory, Djimon Hounsou, Jeremy Irons, Rachel Weisz, Robert Carlyle, John Malkovich, Garrett Hedlund, Joss Stone, Alun Armstrong	Action, Fantasy
		The Pursuit of Happyness	Columbia Pictures / Relativity Media / Overbrook Entertainment / Escape Artists Motion Pictures	Gabriele Muccino (director); Steven Conrad (screenplay); Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Thandie Newton, Brian Howe, Dan Castellaneta, James Karen, Kurt Fuller	Biography, Drama
	19	Salvage	Off Hollywood Pictures	Joshua Crook, Jeffrey Crook (directors/screenplay); Lauren Currie, Cody Darbe, Chris Ferry, Maureen Olander, John P. Miller, Jessica DeLong, Sam Dahler	Horror
	20	Letters from Iwo Jima ‡	Warner Bros. Pictures / DreamWorks Pictures / Amblin Entertainment / Malpaso Productions	Clint Eastwood (director); Iris Yamashita (screenplay); Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryō Kase, Nakamura Shidō II, Yuki Matsuzaki, Takashi Yamaguchi, Eijiro Ozaki	War
	20	Rocky Balboa	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Columbia Pictures / Revolution Studios	Sylvester Stallone (director/screenplay); Sylvester Stallone, Burt Young, Antonio Tarver, Milo Ventimiglia, Geraldine Hughes, Tony Burton, Lou DiBella, James Francis Kelly III	Sports, Drama
	21	Curse of the Golden Flower ‡	Sony Pictures Classics	Zhang Yimou (director/screenplay); Chow Yun-fat, Gong Li, Jay Chou, Qin Junjie, Liu Ye, Ni Dahong, Chen Jin, Li Man	Wuxia, Drama
	22	The Good Shepherd	Universal Pictures / Morgan Creek Productions / TriBeCa Productions / American Zoetrope	Robert De Niro (director); Eric Roth (screenplay); Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Robert De Niro, Alec Baldwin, Gabriel Macht, William Hurt, Joe Pesci, John Turturro, Billy Crudup, Tammy Blanchard, Michael Gambon, Lee Pace, Eddie Redmayne	Spy
		Night at the Museum	20th Century Fox / Dune Entertainment / 1492 Pictures / 21 Laps Entertainment	Shawn Levy (director); Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant (screenplay); Ben Stiller, Carla Gugino, Dick Van Dyke, Robin Williams, Mickey Rooney, Bill Cobbs, Ricky Gervais, Owen Wilson, Jake Cherry, Kim Raver, Steve Coogan, Patrick Gallagher, Charles Q. Murphy, Paul Rudd	Fantasy, Comedy, Family
		We Are Marshall	Warner Bros. Pictures / Legendary Pictures / Thunder Road Pictures	McG (director); Jamie Linden (screenplay); Matthew McConaughey, Matthew Fox, Ian McShane, Anthony Mackie, Kate Mara, January Jones, Brian Geraghty, David Strathairn	Drama, Biography
	25	Black Christmas	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Dimension Films / 2929 Entertainment / Hard Eight Pictures	Glen Morgan (director/screenplay); Katie Cassidy, Michelle Trachtenberg, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Oliver Hudson, Lacey Chabert, Kristen Cloke, Andrea Martin, Crystal Lowe, Karin Konoval	Slasher
		Children of Men ‡	Universal Pictures / Strike Entertainment / Hit and Run Productions	Alfonso Cuarón (director/screenplay); Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata (screenplay); Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Clare-Hope Ashitey, Michael Caine, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Charlie Hunnam, Pam Ferris, Peter Mullan, Danny Huston	Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller
		Notes on a Scandal ‡	Fox Searchlight Pictures	Richard Eyre (director); Patrick Marber (screenplay); Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Bill Nighy, Andrew Simpson, Tom Georgeson, Michael Maloney, Joanna Scanlan	Psychological thriller, Drama
	29	Arthur and the Invisibles ‡	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / The Weinstein Company / EuropaCorp	Luc Besson (director/screenplay); Céline Garcia (screenplay); Freddie Highmore, Madonna, Jimmy Fallon, David Bowie, Mia Farrow, Snoop Dogg, Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro, Ron Crawford, Jason Bateman, Anthony Anderson	Adventure, Fantasy, Family	Live action/Animation
	29	Pan's Labyrinth ‡	Picturehouse / Telecinco Cinema	Guillermo del Toro (director/screenplay); Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Ivana Baquero, Doug Jones, Ariadna Gil, Álex Angulo, Roger Casamajor, Federico Luppi	Fantasy

Films released in 2006

Notable deaths

Month	Date	Name	Age	Country	Profession	Notable films
January	??	Rose Alba	85	UK	Actress	Thunderball School for Sex
	2	Osa Massen	91	Denmark	Actress	A Woman's Face Rocketship X-M
	2	John Woodnutt	81	UK	Actor	Who Dares Wins Lifeforce
	5	Mark Roberts	84	USA	Actor	Gilda Shadowed
	7	Jim Zulevic	40	USA	Actor	Let's Go to Prison Matchstick Men
	12	Stu Linder	74	USA	Film Editor	Rain Man Good Morning, Vietnam Young Sherlock Holmes Quiz Show Bugsy
	14	Shelley Winters	85	USA	Actress	The Diary of Anne Frank Lolita A Patch of Blue The Poseidon Adventure Pete's Dragon
	19	Anthony Franciosa	77	USA	Actor	The Long, Hot Summer Assault on a Queen
	21	Robert Knudson	80	USA	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Scarface The Exorcist Close Encounters of the Third Kind Who Framed Roger Rabbit
	23	Joseph M. Newman	96	USA	Director	This Island Earth 711 Ocean Drive
	24	Chris Penn	40	USA	Actor	Reservoir Dogs Footloose Pale Rider Rush Hour Starsky & Hutch
	24	Fayard Nicholas	91	USA	Actor, Dancer, Choreographer	Stormy Weather The Pirate
	26	Len Carlson	68	Canada	Actor	Cypher
	27	Paul Valentine	86	USA	Actor	Out of the Past House of Strangers
	28	Henry McGee	77	UK	Actor	The Italian Job Revenge of the Pink Panther
	31	Moira Shearer	80	UK	Actress, Dancer	Peeping Tom The Red Shoes
February	1	Roy Alon	63	UK	Stuntman	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Children of Men Die Another Day 101 Dalmatians Entrapment
	3	Jean Byron	80	USA	Actress	Conquest of the Planet of the Apes There's Always Tomorrow
	3	Al Lewis	82	USA	Actor	Used Cars Munster, Go Home! They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Car 54, Where Are You? Married to the Mob
	5	Franklin Cover	77	USA	Actor	Wall Street Almost Heroes
	6	Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez	80	USA	Actor	The High and the Mighty Rio Bravo
	9	Phil Brown	89	USA	Actor	Star Wars Superman Chaplin The Pink Panther Strikes Again
	13	Andreas Katsulas	59	USA	Actor	The Fugitive Executive Decision Next of Kin
	14	Darry Cowl	80	France	Actor	Not on the Lips Don't Touch the White Woman!
	17	Harold Hunter	31	USA	Actor	Kids Kung Faux
	18	Richard Bright	64	USA	Actor	The Godfather The Getaway Once Upon a Time in America Red Heat Marathon Man
	19	Erna Lazarus	102	USA	Screenwriter	The Body Disappears Hollywood or Bust
	21	Richard Snell	50	Bahamas	Makeup Artist	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
	24	Don Knotts	81	USA	Actor	The Incredible Mr. Limpet The Shakiest Gun in the West The Apple Dumpling Gang The Ghost and Mr. Chicken Pleasantville
	24	Dennis Weaver	81	USA	Actor	Duel Touch of Evil Home on the Range
	25	Darren McGavin	83	USA	Actor	The Natural A Christmas Story Billy Madison Dead Heat Airport '77
March	1	Peter Sykes	66	Australia	Director, Actor	To the Devil a Daughter Jesus
	1	Jack Wild	53	UK	Actor	Oliver! Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
	2	Phyllis Huffman	61	USA	Casting Director	Million Dollar Baby Unforgiven Mystic River Space Cowboys Blood Work
	7	Gordon Parks	93	USA	Director	Shaft The Learning Tree
	7	John Junkin	76	UK	Writer, Actor	A Hard Day's Night The Football Factory
	12	Joseph Bova	81	USA	Actor	Serpico Pretty Poison
	13	Maureen Stapleton	80	USA	Actress	Reds Cocoon Airport The Money Pit Bye Bye Birdie
	16	Moira Redmond	77	UK	Actress	A Shot in the Dark Nightmare
	17	Bob Papenbrook	50	USA	Voice Actor	Stranger than Fiction Jeepers Creepers 2 Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
	18	Michael Attwell	63	UK	Actor	Labyrinth High Heels and Low Lifes
	25	Richard Fleischer	89	USA	Director	Tora! Tora! Tora! Doctor Dolittle Fantastic Voyage Soylent Green The Jazz Singer
	29	Gretchen Rau	66	USA	Set and Art Director	Memoirs of a Geisha The Last Samurai Crocodile Dundee The Good Shepherd Unbreakable
April	4	Gary Gray	69	USA	Actor	Meet Me in St. Louis Gaslight
	9	Vilgot Sjöman	82	Sweden	Director	I Am Curious (Yellow) I Am Curious (Blue)
	11	June Pointer	52	USA	Actress	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Hot Shots! Part Deux
	16	John Godey	93	USA	Author	The Taking of Pelham 123 Johnny Handsome
	17	Henderson Forsythe	88	USA	Actor	Silkwood Species II
	22	Alida Valli	84	Italy	Actress	The Third Man Inferno
	23	Susan Browning	65	USA	Actress	Sister Act The Money Pit
	23	Jennifer Jayne	74	UK	Actress, Writer	The Medusa Touch Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
May	1	Jay Presson Allen	84	USA	Writer, Producer	Cabaret Marnie
	1	Betsy Jones-Moreland	76	USA	Actress	Last Woman on Earth Creature from the Haunted Sea
	4	Michael Taliferro	44	USA	Actor, Director, Producer	The Replacements Bad Boys Life You Got Served
	8	George Lutz	59	USA	Author, Screenwriter	The Amityville Horror
	10	Val Guest	94	USA	Director, Screenwriter	Casino Royale The Abominable Snowman
	14	Paul Marco	78	USA	Actor	Plan 9 from Outer Space Hiawatha
	21	Katherine Dunham	96	USA	Dancer	Stormy Weather Casbah
	24	Henry Bumstead	91	USA	Art Director	To Kill a Mockingbird Vertigo The Sting Million Dollar Baby Cape Fear
	27	Paul Gleason	67	USA	Actor	The Breakfast Club Die Hard Trading Places She's Having a Baby Arthur
	30	Shohei Imamura	79	Japan	Actor	Endless Desire The Insect Woman
	30	Robert Sterling	88	USA	Actor	Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Show Boat
June	4	Alec Bregonzi	76	UK	Actor	Revenge of the Pink Panther Georgy Girl
	8	Robert Donner	75	USA	Actor	Cool Hand Luke El Dorado Hoot
	10	Gerald James	88	UK	Actor	The Man with the Golden Gun Hope and Glory
	12	Hugh Latimer	75	UK	Actor	The Million Pound Note Jane Eyre
	16	Arthur Franz	86	USA	Actor	Invaders from Mars Sands of Iwo Jima
	18	Richard Stahl	74	USA	Actor	The American President Overboard Ghosts of Mississippi 9 to 5
	18	Vincent Sherman	99	USA	Director	The Young Philadelphians Mr. Skeffington
	23	Aaron Spelling	83	USA	Producer, Actor	Mr. Mom The Spirit of St. Louis
	25	Kenneth Griffith	84	UK	Actor	Four Weddings and a Funeral Sky Riders
July	2	Jan Murray	89	USA	Actor	Which Way to the Front? The Busy Body
	3	Jack Smith	92	USA	Actor	King Kong Cannonball Run II
	5	Amzie Strickland	87	USA	Actress	Pretty Woman Shiloh
	6	Kasey Rogers	80	USA	Actress	Strangers on a Train Two Lost Worlds
	8	June Allyson	88	USA	Actress	The Glenn Miller Story The Three Musketeers
	9	Chris Drake	82	USA	Actor	Them! Father of the Bride
	11	Barnard Hughes	90	USA	Actor	Tron Midnight Cowboy The Lost Boys Doc Hollywood Oh, God!
	12	Kurt Kreuger	89	Germany	Actor	Sahara The Enemy Below
	13	Red Buttons	87	USA	Actor	Sayonara Pete's Dragon
	18	David Maloney	72	UK	Director, Producer
	19	Jack Warden	85	USA	Actor	Heaven Can Wait 12 Angry Men Being There All the President's Men Problem Child
	20	Robert O. Cornthwaite	89	USA	Actor	The War of the Worlds What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
	21	Mako	72	Japan	Actor	Conan the Barbarian The Sand Pebbles Pearl Harbor Taxi Driver Memoirs of a Geisha
	27	Johnny Weissmuller, Jr.	65	USA	Actor	THX 1138 American Graffiti
	28	Patrick Allen	79	Malawi	Actor	Dial M for Murder Jet Storm
August	4	John Alderson	90	USA	Actor	Blazing Saddles My Fair Lady
	7	Lois January	92	USA	Actress	The Wizard of Oz The Pace That Kills
	13	Tony Jay	73	UK	Voice Actor, Actor	The Hunchback of Notre Dame Twins Beauty and the Beast Time Bandits My Stepmother Is an Alien
	14	Bruno Kirby	57	USA	Actor	The Godfather Part II City Slickers The Basketball Diaries This Is Spinal Tap Stuart Little
	16	Alan Vint	61	USA	Actor	Badlands The Panic in Needle Park
	24	Earl Jolly Brown	66	USA	Actor	Live and Let Die
	25	Ann Richards	88	Australia	Actress	Sorry, Wrong Number An American Romance
	25	Joseph Stefano	84	USA	Screenwriter	Psycho Two Bits
	29	Bill Stewart	63	UK	Actor	101 Dalmatians Anna and the King
	30	Glenn Ford	90	Canada	Actor	Gilda 3:10 to Yuma Superman Blackboard Jungle Cimarron
	31	William Aldrich	61	USA	Producer, Actor	Flight of the Phoenix The Sheltering Sky
September	4	Steve Irwin	44	Australia	Wildlife Expert, Actor	Happy Feet The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course
	5	Hilary Mason	89	UK	Actress	Don't Look Now Robot Jox
	7	Robert Earl Jones	96	USA	Actor	The Sting Witness The Cotton Club
	8	Frank Middlemass	87	UK	Actor	Barry Lyndon The Island
	9	Herbert Rudley	96	USA	Actor	The Court Jester The Young Lions
	9	Gérard Brach	79	France	Director, Writer	The Name of the Rose Frantic
	11	Pat Corley	76	USA	Actor	Coming Home The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
	14	Johnny Sekka	72	USA	Actor	Mohammad, Messenger of God Babylon 5: The Gathering
	14	Virginia Vale	86	USA	Actress	Blonde Comet Broadway Big Shot
	19	Elizabeth Allen	77	USA	Actress	Donovan's Reef Star Spangled Girl
	20	Sven Nykvist	83	Sweden	Cinematographer	Sleepless in Seattle Chaplin What's Eating Gilbert Grape Crimes and Misdemeanors Cries and Whispers
	22	Edward Albert	55	USA	Actor	Butterflies Are Free 40 Carats
	23	Malcolm Arnold	84	UK	Composer	The Bridge on the River Kwai Suddenly, Last Summer
	24	Sally Gray	91	UK	Actress	Green for Danger The Saint in London
	26	Lionel Murton	91	UK	Actor	Patton The Dirty Dozen
	28	Hy Pyke	70	USA	Actor	Blade Runner White House Madness
October	2	Tamara Dobson	59	USA	Actress, Makeup Artist	Cleopatra Jones Norman... Is That You?
	2	Frances Bergen	84	USA	Actress	American Gigolo The Muppets Take Manhattan
	4	Tom Bell	73	UK	Actor	Wish You Were Here Feast of July
	9	Danièle Huillet	70	France	Director	The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach History Lessons
	10	Jerry Belson	68	USA	Producer, Writer	Always Fun with Dick and Jane
	12	Gillo Pontecorvo	86	Italy	Director, Writer	The Battle of Algiers Kapò
	15	Derek Bond	86	UK	Actor	Uncle Silas When Eight Bells Toll
	16	Jack DeLeon	81	USA	Actor, Miscellaneous	The Hobbit Life Stinks
	16	Tommy Johnson	71	USA	Musician	The Matrix The Godfather
	16	Ross Davidson	57	UK	Actor	Monty Python's The Meaning of Life The Crimson Permanent Assurance
	19	Phyllis Kirk	79	USA	Actress	House of Wax Back from Eternity
	19	James Glennon	64	USA	Cinematographer, Second Assistant Camera	About Schmidt Election
	20	Jane Wyatt	96	USA	Actress	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Lost Horizon
	21	Peter Barkworth	77	UK	Actor	Patton Where Eagles Dare
	21	Daryl Duke	77	Canada	Director	The Silent Partner The Thorn Birds
	21	Milton Selzer	87	USA	Actor	Sid and Nancy The Cincinnati Kid
	22	Richard Mayes	83	UK	Actor	Gandhi Top Secret!
	22	Arthur Hill	84	Canada	Actor	Harper The Andromeda Strain
	22	B. Constance Barry	93	USA	Actress	Trading Places Arthur
	29	Nigel Kneale	84	UK	Screenwriter, Actor	Halloween III: Season of the Witch Quatermass and the Pit
	29	Roy Barnes	70	USA	Art Director, Set Designer	War of the Worlds The Last Samurai
	31	William Franklyn	81	UK	Actor, Writer	Cul-de-sac The Satanic Rites of Dracula
November	1	Adrienne Shelly	40	USA	Actress, Director	Waitress The Unbelievable Truth
	2	Leonard Schrader	62	USA	Screenwriter	Kiss of the Spider Woman Blue Collar
	2	Milly Vitale	73	Italy	Actress	The Seven Little Foys The Juggler
	8	Basil Poledouris	61	USA	Composer	Starship Troopers RoboCop The Hunt for Red October Red Dawn Free Willy
	9	Marian Marsh	93	USA	Actress	The Mad Genius The Black Room
	9	Wayne Artman	69	USA	Sound Re-Recording	Falling Down Lethal Weapon 3
	10	Diana Coupland	74	UK	Actress	The Twelve Chairs The Millionairess
	10	Jack Palance	87	USA	Actor	Shane City Slickers Batman Tango & Cash Young Guns
	10	Chubby Oates	63	UK	Actor	Killer's Moon
	11	Ronnie Stevens	81	UK	Actor	The Parent Trap Brassed Off
	11	Belinda Emmett	32	Australia	Actress	The Nugget
	14	John Hallam	65	UK	Actor	Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves Flash Gordon
	15	Elaine Ives-Cameron	67	UK	Actress	Supergirl
	16	Eustace Lycett	91	USA	Special Effects, Visual Effects	Mary Poppins Bedknobs and Broomsticks
	19	Jeremy Slate	80	USA	Actor	The Devil's Brigade True Grit
	20	Robert Altman	81	USA	Director, Screenwriter	MASH Gosford Park The Player Nashville A Prairie Home Companion
	20	Kevin McClory	80	Ireland	Miscellaneous, Producer	The Africa Queen Never Say Never Again
	23	Betty Comden	89	USA	Screenwriter, Lyricist	Singin' in the Rain The Band Wagon
	23	Philippe Noiret	76	France	Actor, Voice Dubbing	Cinema Paradiso Il Postino: The Postman
	24	Phyllis Cerf	90	USA	Actress	Vivacious Lady Little Men
	27	Anthony Jackson	62	UK	Actor	Labyrinth
	27	Alan Freeman	79	UK	Actor, Producer	Dr. Terror's House of Horrors Absolute Beginners
	29	Leon Niemczyk	62	Poland	Actor	Inland Empire
	30	Shirley Walker	61	USA	Composer, Orchestrator	Apocalypse Now Batman: Mask of the Phantasm Escape from L.A. Final Destination True Lies
December	1	Sid Raymond	97	USA	Actor, Voice Actor	Two Much Herman and Katnip
	4	Adam Williams	84	USA	Actor	North by Northwest Fear Strikes Out
	5	Michael Gilden	44	USA	Actor	Return of the Jedi Pulp Fiction
	5	Gerry Humphreys	74	UK	Sound Re-Recording	Blade Runner Gandhi
	6	Mavis Pugh	92	UK	Actress	The Class of Miss MacMichael
	7	Desmond Briscoe	81	UK	Sound Effects	The Haunting The Man Who Fell to Earth
	8	Martha Tilton	91	USA	Singer, Actress	Swing Hostess Crime, Inc.
	9	Russell Wade	89	USA	Actor	Ball of Fire • Mr. & Mrs. Smith
	12	Peter Boyle	71	USA	Actor	Taxi Driver Young Frankenstein Monster's Ball Malcolm X The Santa Clause
	12	Ivor Barry	87	USA	Actor, Writer	Weird Science • The Andromeda Strain
	14	Hallie D'Amore	64	UK	Makeup Artist	Forrest Gump • Apollo 13
	14	Mike Evans	57	USA	Writer, Actor	Now You See Him, Now You Don't • The House on Skull Mountain
	18	Joseph Barbera	95	USA	Director, Producer	The Flintstones • Jetsons: The Movie
	21	Lois Hall	80	USA	Actress	Gone in 60 Seconds • Flightplan
	22	Philip Pine	86	USA	Actor	D.O.A • The Set-Up
	23	Charlie Drake	81	USA	Actor	The Plank • Sands of the Desert
	24	Marc Smith	??	UK	Actor	Live and Let Die • Moonraker
	25	James Brown	73	USA	Singer, Actor	Jerry Maguire • The Proposal
	27	Anna Navarro	73	USA	Actress	Last Action Hero • Topaz
	30	Frank Campanella	87	USA	Actor	Pretty Woman Dick Tracy

Film Debuts

Notes

↑ "2006 Worldwide Grosses". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved June 14, 2010.

References

Box Office Mojo film release schedule.

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[1] "2006 Worldwide Grosses". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved June 14, 2010.