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The History of British Cinema: 2005 |
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11/1 - |
Box-office takings rose 4% in 2004 to a record $1.58 billion. Attendance figures also rose from 148.5 million in 2003 to 156.8 million last year. The three top films of the year were Shrek 2 with $90.32 million; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban with $86.38 million and Bridget Jones and the Edge of Reason. [ADD] |
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12/2 - |
Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator wins four prizes at this year’s British Academy Film Awards, while Mike Leigh's Vera Drake wins three, including Best Director. [ADD] |
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24/2 - |
Empire magazine names Mel Gibson's Braveheart the worst Best Picture Oscar winner because of its poor dialogue. Runner-up is A Beautiful Mind (for its ‘willfully dishonest screenplay,’ while Cecil B. De Mille's The Greatest Show on Earth came third. [ADD] |
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28/4 - |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Garth Jennings and Nick Goldsmith’s big-screen adaptation of Douglas Adams’ cult novel, is released. Martin Freeman stars as Arthur Dent, with Mos Def, Zooey Deschanel, Sam Rockwell, Bill Nighy and John Malkovich in support. [ADD] |
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3/6 - |
In an interview with trade magazine Screen Daily, David Heyman, producer of the Harry Potter movies, indicates that he may shoot the next episode of the franchise outside of Britain. [ADD] |
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1/9 - |
Pinewood Shepperton, Britain's largest film studio, reports a loss of $204,000 for the first half of 2005 compared to a profit of $2.11 million during the same period last year. [ADD] |
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6/9 - |
A report in Screen Digest reveals that Gone With the Wind (1939) is still the most successful film of all time at the U.S. box office after adjusting for inflation. The top ten films are : 1. Gone With the Wind (1939); 2. Star Wars (1977); 3. The Sound of Music (1965); 4. E. T. -- The Extra-Terrestrial (1982); 5. The Ten Commandments (1956); 6. Titanic (1997); 7. Jaws (1975); 8. Doctor Zhivago (1965); 9. The Exorcist (1973); 10. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). [ADD] |
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8/10 - |
Steve Box and Nick Park’s Wallace and Gromit:The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is released. Peter Sallis once again provides the voice of Wallace, with other voices provided by Ralph Fiennes as Victor Quartermaine, and Helena Bonham Carter as Lady Capanula Tottington. [ADD] |
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10/10 - |
Aardman Animation’s studios in Bristol, home of Nick Park’s Wallace and Gromit, are destroyed by fire. [ADD] |
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20/10 - |
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is passed by the British Board of Film Classification with a 12A rating, meaning children under 12 are prohibited from seeing it unless accompanied by an adult. [ADD] |
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24/10 - |
Martin Scorsese’s 1990 gangster film, Goodfellas, is voted the greatest movie of all time in a survey of film critics by Total Film, beating Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo into second place. Citizen Kane comes sixth. [ADD] |
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15/11 - |
A poster for the classic German 1920s film Metropolis is purchased by a private collector from America for $690,000, beating the previous record of $453,500, set in 1997 by a poster for the 1932 film The Mummy. [ADD] |
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21/11 - |
A TV documentary reports that an attack by a German fighter plane on a civilian flight which claimed the life of film star Leslie Howard was intended as an assassination attack on Prime Minister Winston Churchill, whose flight had been grounded due to bad weather. [ADD] |
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29/11 - |
Rank, once one of Britain’s biggest filmmaking groups, announces that it will sell its Deluxe Film holdings for $750 million to billionaire Ron Perelman, head of Revlon, signaling an end to its involvement in the film business after more than 70 years. [ADD] |
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Other Key British Films of 2005 |
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The Constant Gardener (Fernando Meirelles) [ADD] |
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Pride & Prejudice (Joe Wright) [ADD] |
