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The History of
American Cinema: 2010
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September - December |
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1/9 -
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Cammie King Conlon, the former child actress who played the ill-fated
daughter of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara in
Gone With the Wind (1939), dies of lung cancer at the age of 76 in Fort
Bragg, California.
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4/9 -
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At the
Deauville American Film Festival,
Terry Gilliam reveals that finance for his second attempt at filming
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote has fallen through, although
Robert Duvall and
Ewan McGregor remain attached to the project.
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11/9 -
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Kevin McCarthy, the actor best remembered for his role in the 50s sci-fi
classic
Invasion of the Bodysnatchers as the doctor who discovers that residents
in his small hometown are being taken over by alien invaders while they
sleep, dies at Cape Cod hospital at the age of 96.
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22/9 -
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Shangri-La Entertainment announces the completion of
Girl Walks into a Bar, an ensemble piece starring
Carla Gugino,
Zachary Quinto,
Danny DeVito,
Josh Hartnett and
Robert Forster. The film will be the first major full-length feature
film to be released exclusively on the
internet.
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27/9 -
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, the belated sequel to
Wall Street (1987), tops the US box office, 23 years after the release
of the original film.
Michael Douglas reprises his role as financier Gordon Gekko.
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28/9 -
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Arthur Penn, the director of
Bonnie and Clyde, dies of congestive heart failure in Manhattan the day
after his 88th birthday.
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30/9 -
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50s heartthrob
Tony Curtis dies at his home in Henderson, Nevada at the age of 85.
Best known for his role opposite
Marilyn Monroe in
Billy Wilder's
Some Like it Hot,
Curtis was hospitalised in Las Vegas in July 2010 following an asthma
attack.
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1/10 -
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The Social Network,
David Fincher's account of the creation of the globally popular
internet phenomenon
Facebook, is released.
Jesse Eisenberg plays
Mark Zuckerberg, the site's founder whose success leads to legal and
personal complications.
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4/10 -
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Director
John McTiernan is sentenced to one years imprisonment for his part in
the
Anthony Pellicano wiretapping scandal. He is released on
bail pending appeal.
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15/10 -
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Johnny Sheffield, the former child actor who played Boy in the
Tarzan movie series of the 30s and 40s before starring in the
Bomba, the Jungle Boy series, dies of a heart attack at his home in
Chula Vista at the age of 79. Ironically, his fatal attack was triggered
by a fall from a tree that he was pruning.
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21/10 -
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The
Russian government presents the United States
Library of Congress with digitally restored copies of 10 silent American
films previously believed to have been lost.
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22/10 -
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A cameo role in
The Hangover 2 offered to
Mel Gibson is withdrawn following objections from members of the film's
cast and crew.
Gibson is under investigation over allegations of domestic abuse made by
his former partner,
Oksana Grigorieva.
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3/11 - |
After
struggling with crippling debt for years,
the
86-year-old studio
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
finally
files for
Chapter 11
bankruptcy
protection in a
New York court as it seeks approval of a business plan supported by its
creditors.
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9/11 -
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Prolific Italian movie producer
Dino De Laurentiis, who produced more than 600 films, dies in Los
Angeles at the age of 91.
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10/11 -
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The
world’s two largest film industries –
Hollywood and
Bollywood – sign a co-operation pact
in
Hollywood for
the
production and distribution of their films.
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A
restored print of the groundbreaking avant-garde film
Limite (1930) receives a screening at the
World Cinema Foundation Festival in Brooklyn. Restoration of the film,
described by
Cinemateca Brasileira as the greatest Brazilian film ever made, and once
in danger of real being lost, began in 1959. It was director
Mário Peixoto’s only film.
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16/11 - |
Hollywood publicist
Ronni Chasen is gunned down in her car near
Sunset Boulevard while driving home from the premiere of
the movie
Burlesque.
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27/11 -
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Irving Kershner, best known for directing
The Empire Strikes Back, dies in Los Angeles at the age of 87 after a
long illness.
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28/11 -
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Leslie Nielsen, star of the
Airplane and
Naked Gun movies, dies of complications from pneumonia at his home in
Florida at the age of 84.
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2/12 - |
The Social Network,
David Fincher’s account of the story behind the creation of the social
networking site
Facebook, wins the
National Board of Review’s
Best Film award.
Fincher also wins
Best Director for the film while
Jesse Eisenberg wins
Best Actor for his role as
Facebook creator
Mark Zuckerberg.
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9/12 -
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British actress
Helen Mirren accuses the
Hollywood movie industry of worshipping ‘at the altar of the 18 to 25
year old male and his penis’ at the
Hollywood Reporter’s
Sherry Lansing Leadership Award ceremony in Beverly Hills.
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15/12 -
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Blake Edwards, director of
The Pink Panther and
Breakfast at Tiffany's, dies of complications resulting from pneumonia
in a Santa Monica hospital at the age of 88.
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17/12 -
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3D special-effects extravaganza
TRON: Legacy, a belated sequel to the 1982 film
Tron, is released.
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28/12 -
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Airplane! and
Saturday Night Fever
are among the 25 films added to the
Library of Congress'
National Film
Registry.
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