The History of Cinema Timeline: USA 2011

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		11/1 -	Following its restructuring to stave off bankruptcy, MGM announces that the 23^rd James Bond film will be released in November 2012. Daniel Craig will once again play the super-suave secret agent. [ADD]

		14/1 -	At the 16th Critics Choice Awards Colin Firth wins the Best Actor award for his performance as King George VI in Tom Hooper's The King's Speech, while Natalie Portman wins Best Actress for her role in Darren Aronofsky's dark ballet drama The Black Swan. Best Film goes to The Social Network. [MORE]

		16/1 -	British comic Ricky Gervais's corrosive humour upsets a number of guests at the 68th Golden Globes Awards at the Beverly Hills Hilton. The Social Network is the big winner on the night, winning four awards including Best Picture and Best Director. [MORE]

		17/1 -	Michel Gondry’s The Green Hornet, in which comic actor Seth Rogen stars as the eponymous hero, earns an estimated $34 million at the US box office in its opening weekend. [ADD]

		29/1 -	Tom Hooper's The King's Speech wins the Directors Guild Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement at a ceremony held at the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood and Highland in Los Angeles. The ceremony is hosted by Carl Reiner. [ADD]

		29/1 -	Sam Levinson, the writer and director of Another Happy Day, wins the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival Awards ceremony. [MORE]



		30/1 -	The King’s Speech wins Outstanding performance by a cast and Outstanding performance by a male actor in a leading role (Colin Firth) awards at this year’s Screen Actors’ Guild Awards leading to mounting speculation that it will win the Best Film Oscar over previous favourite The Social Network. [ADD]

		30/1 -	British-born composer John Barry, best known for his soundtracks for James Bond films, dies of a heart attack in New York at the age of 77. He won a total of five Academy Awards for Born Free (song and score), The Lion in Winter, Out of Africa, and Dances with Wolves. [ADD]

		4/2 -	Cult actress Tura Satana, chiefly remembered as the busty murderous go-go dancer of Russ Meyer’s 1965 exploitation movie Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, dies of heart failure in a Reno hospital at the age of 72. [ADD]

		5/2 -	How To Train Your Dragon wins 10 prizes, including Best Animated Feature, Best Animated Effects and Best Direction, at the Annie Awards for animation. [ADD]

		5/2 -	Inception wins the Best Original Screenplay prize at this year’s WGA Awards, while Best Adapted Screenplay goes to The Social Network. Inside Job wins Best Documentary Screenplay. [ADD]

		27/2 -	The King's Speech wins four prizes, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Leading Actor, at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards ceremony held at the Kodak Theatre, Hollywood. [MORE]

		28/2 -	Actress Jane Russell, the pneumatic star ‘discovered' by eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes who cast her in The Outlaw when she was 20-years-old, dies of a respiratory illness at her home in Santa Maria, California at the age of 89. [ADD]

		3/3 -	BioControl Systems and FilmTrip Ltd introduce the Biosuite, pioneering technology that allows an audience to influence the outcome of the movie it is watching. [MORE]

		9/3 -	Warner Bros announces that it is to make some of its films available on Facebook in the States for a 48-hour rental fee of $3 per movie. The move is widely seen as a response by the industry to the increasing popularity of the Netflix rental service. [ADD]

		23/3 -	Elizabeth Taylor dies in Los Angeles one month after being treated in hospital for congestive heart failure. The actress, who had a long history of ill health dating back to her childhood, was 79-years-old. [MORE]

		Mar -	The producers of the forthcoming remake of the 1984 action flick Red Dawn digitally erase all traces of any Chinese involvement in the invasion of America depicted on the screen for fear of damaging the film's chances in the Chinese market. North Korean flags and symbols are now shown instead. [MORE]

		27/3 -	Actor Farley Granger dies of natural causes at his home in Manhattan at the age of 85. [MORE]

		28/3 -	Vittorio Cecchi Gori is awarded more than $15 million after it is ruled that his former partner Gianni Nunnari used Cecchi Gori’s ‘name, employees, offices and other assets’ to produce films such as 300 and Everybody’s Fine, but siphoned the proceeds from these films into his own personal company. [MORE]



		1/4 -	Duncan Jones' sci-fi thriller Source Code, in which Jake Gyllenhaal repeatedly travels back in time to relive the eight minutes prior to a devastating train crash, is released. [MORE]

		9/4 -	Director Sidney Lumet dies of lymphoma at his home in Manhattan at the age of 86. [MORE]

		11/4 -	1920s Actress Marilyn Miller’s original Walk of Fame star is returned to the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce forty years after it was stolen – without anybody realising. [MORE]

		26/4 -	The Church of Scientology acquires the studio facility on Sunset Boulevard previously owned by Monogram Pictures and Allied Artists. [ADD]

		3/5 -	Former child star Jackie Cooper dies in Beverly Hills at the age of 88. [MORE]

		20/5 -	Arnold Schwarzenegger puts his acting comeback on hold following the break-up of his 25-year marriage to Maria Shriver over revelations that he fathered a child with a member of his domestic staff. [ADD]

		30/5 -	Hangover Part II smashes domestic records for an adult comedy, grossing more than $118 million in its first four days despite receiving a drubbing from the critics. [ADD]

		31/5 -	Lithuanian-born avant-garde filmmaker Adolfas Mekas dies in a Poughkeepsie hospital at the age of 85. [ADD]

		5/6 -	The Twilight Saga: Eclipse wins five awards at the 2011 MTV Movie Awards, including Best Movie, Best Male Performance (Robert Pattinson) and Best Female Performance (Kristen Stewart). [MORE]

	10/6 -	J. J. Abram's Super 8, in which a group of feisty kids discover a possible government cover-up of an alien encounter, is released. The film, which is set in 1979, is inspired by the films of this movie's producer, Steven Spielberg. [ADD]

	14/6 -	The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces that, in future, nominees for the Best Picture category will be merit based, with at least 5% of first place voting required in order to receive a nomination. [MORE]

	19/6 -	The white ivory-pleated dress worn by Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch (1955) sells for $4.6 million at an auction of Hollywood memorabilia owned by Debbie Reynolds. [ADD]

	23/6 -	Peter Falk, the actor who achieved lasting fame as the rumpled TV police detective Columbo and whose movie career spanned five decades, dies of Alzheimer's Disease in Beverly Hills. [ADD]



	18/7 -	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 - the final part of the Harry Potter series of films - earns a record-breaking global box office gross of approximately $476 million in its opening wekend. [ADD]

	13/8 -	Experimental filmmaker Robert Breer dies in Tucson, Arizona at the age of 85. [ADD]

	17/8 -	It's revealed that veteran actor Burt Reynolds, once one of Hollywood's highest-paid stars, faces eviction from his £1.4 million mansion over an unpaid £700,000 mortgage bill. [ADD]

	10/9 -	Cliff Robertson, leading man of the 1950s and 60s whose career spanned six decades, dies at the age of 88. [ADD]

	4/10 -	The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles County Museum of Arts announce their intention to open a film museum on Wilshire Boulevard within 3-5 years. [ADD]

	20/10 -	Director George Sluizer reveals that he plans to ask Joaquin Phoenix to provide the voiceover for his late brother River's character in the film Dark Blood, which River was filming when he died of an apparent drugs overdose in 1993. [ADD]

	24/10 -	Paramount's $5 million horror film Paranormal Activity 3 earns $54 million in its opening weekend in the US and Canada, making it the most successful debut ever for a horror movie. [ADD]

	27/10 -	Samuel L. Jackson is named as the highest-grossing actor of all time by the Guinness Book of Records. His appearance in 100 films has netted nearly $7.5 billion. [ADD]

	9/11 -	Director Brett Ratner resigns from his position as producer of 2012's Oscar ceremony following criticism over a number of offensive comments he made to the media. [ADD]

	21/11 -	A report from the IHS reveals that digital will overtake film as the predominant projector technology within the next two months, bringing to an end film's 122 year reign. [ADD]

	22/11 -	Police re-open their investigation into the death of actress Natalie Wood 30 years after she drowned in mysterious circumstances following revelations in a book written by the captain of the yacht from which she disappeared on 29th November 1981. [ADD]

	5/12 -	The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 tops the domestic box office for a third straight weekend. [ADD]

	6/12 -	Angelina Jolie's directorial debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey, premieres in New York. Goran Kostic and Zana Marjanovic star in the drama set during the war in Bosnia. [ADD]

	7/12 -	Character actor Harry Morgan dies of pneumonia at his Los Angeles home at the age of 96. Although his film career stretched back to 1942, he was chiefly remembered by the public for the role of Colonel Sherman Potter in the hit TV show MAS*H.

	8/12 -	The premiere of Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows takes place at the Village Theatre in Los Angeles. Robert Downey Jr. once again plays the British sleuth. [ADD]

	9/12 -	Actress Kristen Stewart tops Forbes magazine's list of stars who earn the most for their studio for each dollar earned. Others in the top ten are Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Daniel Radcliffe, Shia LaBeouf, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Cate Blanchett, Meryl Streep and Johnny Depp. [ADD]

	9/12 -	Garry Marshall's romantic comedy New Year's Eve, in which the lives of a collection of people intertwine over one New Year's Eve, is released. Michelle Pfeiffer and Zac Efron star. [ADD]

	14/12 -	The premiere of The Iron Lady, Phyllida Lloyd's British-made biopic of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, takes place in New York. Meryl Streep stars in the title role with Jim Broadbent in the part of her loyal husband, Denis. [ADD]

	20/12 -	David Fincher's adaptation of Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is released. Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig star. [ADD]

	23/12 -	Patrick Gilles' and Hooman Khalilli's Olive, believed to be the first feature-length film shot entirely on a smartphone, is released. Gena Rowland stars. [ADD]

	28/12 -	An animal sanctuary in Florida announces that one of its residents, the chimp who played Cheetah in the Johnny Weismuller Tarzan movies, has died. Many question whether the chimp in question is actually the same one as the 30s movie star as it would have been in its 80s. [ADD]

	28/12 -	Forrest Gump (1994), The Lost Weekend (1945), Norma Rae (1979), Bambi (1942), and Stand and Deliver (1988) are among the 25 films added to the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry. [ADD]



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