Information about 2006 In Film

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The year 2006 in film involved some significant events.

Events

Several hundred full-length films were released in 2006.

Top grossing films

Please note that following the tradition of the English language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the United States and Canada in 2006; because they may have made most of their income in a later year, they may not be the top-grossing films for calendar year. The top ten of 2006 as of August 27, 2007 (Worldwide, U.S. & Canada and International); March 18, 2007 (UK) and January 14, 2007 (Australia) are as follows:

U.S./Canada and International box-office gross figures are in U.S. dollars, British results in millions "M" of pounds sterling, and Australian results in Australian dollars.

#	Title	Studio	Box Office Gross
			Total World	US/Canada[1]	Total Int'l[2]	U. K.[3]	Australia[4]
1		Walt Disney Pictures	'''$1,066,179,725	$423,315,812	$642,863,913	£52M	$36,271,740
2	The Da Vinci Code	Columbia Pictures	'''$758,239,851	$217,536,138	$540,703,713	£30M	$26,086,109
3		20th Century Fox	'''$651,564,512	$195,330,621	$456,233,891	£29M	$22,868,309
4	Casino Royale	MGM / Columbia	'''$594,239,066	$167,445,960	$426,793,106	£55M	$27,986,845
5	Night at the Museum	20th Century Fox	'''$573,340,034	$250,863,268	$322,476,766	£20M	$17,143,797
6	Cars	Walt Disney Pictures / Pixar	'''$461,981,267	$244,082,982	$217,898,285	£16M	$17,132,075
7		20th Century Fox	'''$459,256,008	$234,362,462	$224,893,546	£19M	$16,000,390
8		Paramount Pictures	'''$397,850,210	$134,029,801	$263,820,409	£15M	$10,758,757
9	Superman Returns	Warner Bros.	'''$391,081,192	$200,081,192	$191,000,000	£16M	$13,830,282
10	Happy Feet	Warner Bros.	'''$384,330,479	$198,000,317	$186,330,162	£18M	$24,327,147

As of January 29, 2007, seven films released in 2006 had grossed more than $400 million, reaching international blockbuster motion picture status and as of September 11, 2006, became the third and fastest film in Hollywood history to reach the billion dollar worldwide Box Office mark with a $1,004,100,000, behind Titanic and .

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For a complete list of 2006's top-grossing films, follow these links:

• Worldwide: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=2006&p=.htm
• U.S. & Canada: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2006&p=.htm
• United Kingdom: http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/cinemagoing/boxoffice/ & http://www.imdb.com/
• Australia: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/australia/ & http://www.mpdaa.org.au/home.nsf/web_insider?openform&login&action=home

Wide-release films

In the film industry, a wide-release movie is a film that studios believe will appeal to a broad spectrum of the public and that shows in at least 600 theatres in the United States and Canada. The following films meet these criteria:

January-March

‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release.

Month	Day	Title	Studio	Notable Cast/Crew
January	6	BloodRayne	Romar Entertainment	Kristanna Loken, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Rodriguez
		Grandma's Boy	20th Century Fox	Allen Covert, Doris Roberts, Shirley Jones
		Hostel	Lions Gate Films	Jay Hernandez
	13	Glory Road	Walt Disney Pictures	Josh Lucas, Derek Luke, Jon Voight
		Last Holiday	Paramount Pictures	Queen Latifah, Gérard Depardieu, LL Cool J
		Tristan and Isolde	20th Century Fox	James Franco, Sophia Myles, Rufus Sewell
	20	End of the Spear	Jungle Films	Louie Leonardo, Chad Allen, Jack Guzman
			Screen Gems	Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Bill Nighy
	27	Annapolis	Touchstone Pictures	James Franco, Tyrese Gibson, Jordana Brewster
		Big Momma's House 2	20th Century Fox	Martin Lawrence, Nia Long
		Nanny McPhee	Universal Pictures	Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Angela Lansbury
February	3	Something New	Focus Features	Sanaa Lathan, Simon Baker, Mike Epps
		When a Stranger Calls	Screen Gems	Camilla Belle, Katie Cassidy
	10	Curious George	Universal Pictures	voices of: Will Ferrell, Drew Barrymore, David Cross, Eugene Levy, Joan Plowright, Dick Van Dyke
		Final Destination 3	New Line Cinema	Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ryan Merriman ,Kris Lemche, Alexz Johnson, Amanda Crew
		Firewall	Warner Bros.	Harrison Ford, Paul Bettany, Virginia Madsen
		The Pink Panther	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Columbia Pictures	Steve Martin, Kevin Kline, Beyoncé Knowles
	17	Date Movie	20th Century Fox	Alyson Hannigan, Jennifer Coolidge
		Eight Below	Walt Disney Pictures	Paul Walker, Jason Biggs
		Freedomland	Revolution Studios	Samuel L. Jackson, Julianne Moore
	24	Doogal	The Weinstein Co.	Jim Broadbent, Ian McKellen, Bill Nighy
		Madea's Family Reunion	Lions Gate Films	Tyler Perry
		Running Scared	New Line Cinema	Paul Walker, Cameron Bright
March	3	16 Blocks	Warner Bros.	Bruce Willis, Mos Def
		Aquamarine	20th Century Fox	Sara Paxton, Emma Roberts, JoJo
		Ultraviolet	Screen Gems	Milla Jovovich, Cameron Bright, Nick Chinlund
		Dave Chappelle's Block Party	Rogue Pictures	Dave Chappelle, Kanye West, Mos Def
	10	Failure to Launch	Paramount	Matthew McConaughey, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Bates
		The Hills Have Eyes	Fox Searchlight Pictures	Vinessa Shaw, Kathleen Quinlan, Aaron Stanford
		The Shaggy Dog	Walt Disney Pictures	Tim Allen, Kristin Davis, Danny Glover
	17	She's the Man	DreamWorks	Amanda Bynes, Channing Tatum
		Thank You for Smoking ‡	Fox Searchlight Pictures	Aaron Eckhart, Maria Bello, Katie Holmes
		V for Vendetta	Warner Brothers	Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving
	24	Inside Man	Universal Pictures	Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster
			Lions Gate Films	Larry The Cable Guy
		Stay Alive	Buena Vista Pictures	Jon Foster, Samaire Armstrong, Frankie Muniz
	31	ATL	Warner Bros.	T.I., Lauren London, Evan Ross Naess
			Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Sharon Stone, David Morrissey, Charlotte Rampling
			20th Century Fox	animated, voices of: Ray Romano John Leguizamo Denis Leary Queen Latifah , Seann William Scott (), Josh Peck , Jay Leno ), Will Arnett ()
		Slither	Universal Pictures	Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks, Michael Rooker

April-June

‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release.

Month	Day	Title	Studio	Notable Cast/Crew
April	7	The Benchwarmers	Revolution Studios	Rob Schneider, David Spade, Jon Heder, Jon Lovitz
		Friends with Money ‡	Sony Pictures Classics	Jennifer Aniston, Frances McDormand, Catherine Keener, Joan Cusack
		Lucky Number Slevin	The Weinstein Co.	Josh Hartnett, Lucy Liu, Ben Kingsley, Bruce Willis
		Phat Girlz	Fox Searchlight Pictures	Mo'Nique Imes-Jackson
		Take the Lead	New Line Cinema	Antonio Banderas, Yaya DaCosta, Alfre Woodard
	14	Scary Movie 4	The Weinstein Co.	Anna Faris
		The Wild	Walt Disney Pictures	Animated, Voices Of: Kiefer Sutherland, William Shatner, Greg Cipes, Eddie Izzard, Janeane Garofalo, Richard Kind, James Belushi
	21	American Dreamz	Universal Pictures	Hugh Grant, Mandy Moore, Dennis Quaid
		The Sentinel	20th Century Fox	Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland, Kim Basinger
		Silent Hill	TriStar Pictures	Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean
	28	Akeelah and the Bee	Lions Gate Films	Keke Palmer, Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett
		RV	Columbia Pictures	Robin Williams, Cheryl Hines, Kristin Chenoweth, JoJo, Josh Hutcherson
		Stick It	Touchstone Pictures	Missy Peregrym, Jeff Bridges, Vanessa Lengies
		United 93	Universal Pictures	David Rasche, Rebecca Schull, Denny Dillon
May	5	An American Haunting	Freestyle Releasing	Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek, James D'Arcy
		Art School Confidential ‡	United Artists	Max Minghella, John Malkovich, Jim Broadbent, Anjelica Huston, Joel Moore
		Hoot	New Line Cinema	Logan Lerman, Brie Larson, Luke Wilson
			Paramount Pictures	Tom Cruise, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Michelle Monaghan, Philip Seymour Hoffman
	12	Goal! The Dream Begins	Touchstone Pictures	Kuno Becker, Marcel Iureş, Anna Friel
		Just My Luck	20th Century Fox	Lindsay Lohan, Chris Pine, Faizon Love
		Poseidon	Warner Bros.	Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas, Richard Dreyfuss, Jacinda Barrett, Emmy Rossum
	19	The Da Vinci Code	Columbia Pictures	Tom Hanks, Ian McKellen, Audrey Tautou
		Over the Hedge	Paramount Pictures	Animated, Voices Of: Bruce Willis , Garry Shandling , Steve Carell , William Shatner , Avril Lavigne , Wanda Sykes
		See No Evil	Lions Gate Films	Kane
	26		20th Century Fox	Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Famke Janssen, Kelsey Grammer, James Marsden, Rebecca Romijn, Anna Paquin, Shawn Ashmore, Ellen Page, Dania Ramirez, Michael Murphy
June	2	The Break-Up	Universal Pictures	Jennifer Aniston, Vince Vaughn
	6	The Omen	20th Century Fox	Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, Mia Farrow
	9	Cars	Pixar/Walt Disney Pictures	Animated, Voices Of: Paul Newman , Owen Wilson , Larry the Cable Guy , George Carlin
		A Prairie Home Companion	Picturehouse	Lindsay Lohan, Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones
	16		Universal Pictures	Lucas Black, Bow Wow
			20th Century Fox	Breckin Meyer
		The Lake House	Warner Bros.	Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock
		Nacho Libre	Paramount Pictures	Jack Black
	23	Click	Columbia Pictures	Adam Sandler, Christopher Walken
		Waist Deep	Focus Features	Tyrese Gibson, Meagan Good, The Game, Larenz Tate
	28	Superman Returns	Warner Bros.	Brandon Routh, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth
	30	The Devil Wears Prada	20th Century Fox	Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci

July-September

‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release.

Month	Day	Title	Studio	Notable Cast/Crew
July	7		Walt Disney Pictures	Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley
	14	Little Man	Revolution Studios	Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Kerry Washington
		You, Me and Dupree	Universal Pictures	Kate Hudson, Owen Wilson, Matt Dillon
	21	Clerks II	Weinstein Co./MGM	Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Rosario Dawson, Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith
		Lady in the Water	Warner Bros.	Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard
		Monster House	Columbia Pictures	animated, voices of Mitchel Musso, Spencer Locke
		My Super Ex-Girlfriend	20th Century Fox/Regency	Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson, Anna Faris
	26	Little Miss Sunshine ‡	Fox Searchlight Pictures	Abigail Breslin, Greg Kinnear, Paul Dano
	28	The Ant Bully	Warner Bros.	Zach Tyler Eisen, Paul Giamatti, Julia Roberts, Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep
		John Tucker Must Die	20th Century Fox	Jesse Metcalfe, Ashanti Douglas, Sophia Bush, Brittany Snow, Arielle Kebbel
		Miami Vice	Universal Pictures	Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Gong Li
August	4	Barnyard	Paramount Pictures	animated, voices of Kevin James, Courteney Cox
		The Descent	Lions Gate	MyAnna Buring, Nora Jane Noone, Alex Reid
		The Night Listener	Miramax Films	Robin Williams, Toni Collette, Bobby Cannavale
			Columbia Pictures	Will Ferrell
	9	World Trade Center	Paramount Pictures	Nicolas Cage, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Oliver Stone (director)
	11	Pulse		Christina Milian, Kristen Bell
		Step Up	Buena Vista	Channing Tatum
		Zoom	Columbia Pictures	Tim Allen, Courteney Cox, Kevin Zegers
	18	Accepted	Universal Pictures	Justin Long, Blake Lively
		The Illusionist ‡	Yari Film Group	Edward Norton, Jessica Biel, Paul Giamatti
		Material Girls	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Hilary Duff, Haylie Duff, Angelica Huston, Brent Spiner, Lukas Haas
		Snakes on a Plane	New Line Cinema	Samuel L. Jackson, Nathan Phillips
	25	Uncle Simon	New Line Cinema	Douglas Vale
		How to Eat Fried Worms	New Line Cinema
		Idlewild	Universal Pictures/HBO Films	China Anderson, Macy Gray, Terrence Howard, Patti LaBelle, Ving Rhames, Cicely Tyson, Ben Vereen
		Invincible	Buena Vista	Mark Wahlberg
September	1	Crank	Lions Gate	Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Efren Ramirez, and Dwight Yoakam
		Crossover	Sony	Anthony Mackie
		The Wicker Man	Warner Bros.	Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn
	8	The Covenant	Screen Gems	Toby Hemingway
		Hollywoodland	Focus Features	Adrien Brody, Ben Affleck, Diane Lane, Bob Hoskins
		The Protector	Weinstein Company	Tony Jaa, Nathan Jones
	15	The Black Dahlia	Universal Pictures	Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart, Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank, Fiona Shaw
		Everyone's Hero	20th Century Fox
		Gridiron Gang	Columbia Pictures	The Rock, Xzibit, L. Scott Caldwell
		The Last Kiss	DreamWorks	Zach Braff, Jacinda Barrett, Rachel Bilson
	22	All the King's Men	Columbia Pictures	Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet
		Fearless	Rogue Pictures	Jet Li, Collin Chou
		Flyboys	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	James Franco, Jean Reno, Martin Henderson
			Paramount Pictures	Johnny Knoxville, Chris Pontius, Bam Margera, Preston Lacy, Ryan Dunn, Brandon DiCamillo, Dave England, Steve-O, Jason Acuña
	29	The Guardian	Buena Vista	Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher
		Open Season	Columbia Pictures	Animated, Voices of: Martin Lawrence Ashton Kutcher
		School for Scoundrels	The Weinstein Company	Jacinda Barrett, Jon Heder, Billy Bob Thornton
	30
		The Queen ‡	Miramax	Helen Mirren, James Cromwell, Michael Sheen

October-December

‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release.

Month	Day	Title	Studio	Notable Cast/Crew
October	6	The Departed	Warner Bros.	Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Martin Scorsese (director)
		Employee of the Month	Lions Gate	Dane Cook, Jessica Simpson
			New Line Cinema	Andrew Bryniarski, Jordana Brewster
	13	The Grudge 2	Columbia Pictures	Sarah Michelle Gellar, Amber Tamblyn, Arielle Kebbel
		Man of the Year	Universal Pictures	Robin Williams, Laura Linney
		The Marine	20th Century Fox	John Cena, Robert Patrick, Kelly Carlson, Jeff Chase, Christina Lindley
		One Night With The King	Gener8Xion Entertainment	Tiffany DuPont, Omar Sharif, Peter O'Toole, John Rhys-Davies, Luke Goss
	20	Flags of Our Fathers	DreamWorks	Paul Walker, Ryan Phillippe, Clint Eastwood (director)
		Flicka	20th Century Fox	Alison Lohman, Daniel Pino, Dallas Roberts
		Marie-Antoinette	Columbia Pictures	Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Steve Coogan
		The Prestige	Touchstone Pictures/Warner Bros.	Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson
		Two Weeks	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Sally Field, Ben Chaplin
	27	Babel ‡	Paramount Vantage	Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael Garcia Bernal, Rinko Kikuchi, Adriana Barraza
		Catch a Fire	Focus Features	Tim Robbins, Derek Luke
		Saw III	Lions Gate Films	Angus Macfadyen, Shawnee Smith, Donnie Wahlberg, Tobin Bell, Dina Meyer, Bahar Soomekh, J. Larose, Barry Flatman, Leigh Whannell
November	3
			20th Century Fox	Sacha Baron Cohen, Pamela Anderson
		Flushed Away	DreamWorks	Animated, Voices of: Hugh Jackman , Kate Winslet
			Walt Disney Pictures	Tim Allen, Martin Short
		Volver ‡	Sony Pictures Classics	Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura
	10
		A Good Year	20th Century Fox	Russell Crowe, Albert Finney, Ridley Scott (director)
		Harsh Times	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Christian Bale, Freddy Rodriguez, Eva Longoria
		The Return	Rogue Pictures	Sarah Michelle Gellar, Peter O'Brien, Sam Shepard
		Stranger Than Fiction	Columbia Pictures	Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman
	17
		Bobby	Weinstein Company/MGM	Anthony Hopkins, Elijah Wood, Sharon Stone, Lindsay Lohan, Shia LaBeouf
		Casino Royale	MGM/Columbia	Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelson & Judi Dench
		For Your Consideration	Warner Independent	Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Parker Posey, Jennifer Coolidge, Fred Willard, Ricky Gervais
		Happy Feet	Warner Bros.	Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Brittany Murphy, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Hugo Weaving
		Let's Go To Prison	Universal	Dax Shepard, Will Arnett
	22
		Deck the Halls	20th Century Fox	Danny DeVito, Matthew Broderick
		Deja Vu	Buena Vista	Denzel Washington, Val Kilmer, James Caviezel
		The Fountain	Warner Bros.	Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz
			New Line Cinema	Jack Black, Kyle Gass, Jason Reed
December	1	The Nativity Story	New Line Cinema	Keisha Castle-Hughes, Shohreh Aghdashloo
		Turistas	20th Century Fox	Josh Duhamel, Melissa George
			MGM	Kal Penn
	8
		Apocalypto	Buena Vista	Mel Gibson (director)
		Blood Diamond	Warner Bros.	Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly, Djimon Hounsou
		The Holiday	Columbia Pictures	Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law
		Unaccompanied Minors	Warner Bros.	Wilmer Valderrama, Lewis Black
	15
		Charlotte's Web	Paramount Pictures	Dakota Fanning, Voice of: Julia Roberts
		Dreamgirls ‡	DreamWorks/Paramount	Jamie Foxx, Beyoncé Knowles, Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Hudson, Danny Glover
		Eragon	20th Century Fox	Edward Speleers,Sienna Guillory, Djimon Hounsou, Jeremy Irons, Voice of: Rachel Weisz
		The Pursuit of Happyness	Columbia Pictures	Will Smith, Thandie Newton
	20
		Letters from Iwo Jima ‡	Warner Brothers	Ken Watanabe, Clint Eastwood (director)
		Rocky Balboa	Revolution Studios/MGM/Columbia Pictures	Sylvester Stallone, Milo Ventimiglia
	21
		Curse of the Golden Flower ‡	Sony Pictures Classics	Chow Yun-Fat, Gong Li
	22
		Night at the Museum	20th Century Fox	Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Dick Van Dyke, Robin Williams
		The Good Shepherd	Universal Pictures	Robert De Niro, Angelina Jolie, Matt Damon
		We Are Marshall	Warner Bros.	Matthew McConaughey, Matthew Fox, Kate Mara, Anthony Mackie
	25
		Black Christmas	MGM/Dimension Films	Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Katie Cassidy, Michelle Trachtenberg
		Children of Men ‡	Universal Pictures	Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine
		Notes on a Scandal ‡	Fox Searchlight	Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett
	29
		Arthur and the Invisibles ‡	Weinstein Company/MGM	Freddie Highmore
		Pan's Labyrinth ‡	Picturehouse	Guillermo del Toro(director)

Other films released

This section lists films which either did not achieve wide-release status in North America, or were not released before in North America. Release dates refer to the North American release unless otherwise stated.

Title	Release date	Studio	Other notes
10th & Wolf	August 18	ThinkFilm	Val Kilmer, James Marsden, Giovanni Ribisi, Brad Renfro, Piper Perabo, Tommy Lee, Dennis Hopper
A Cock and Bull Story	January 27	Picturehouse	Steve Coogan
Adam & Steve	March 31	TLA Releasing	Craig Chester, Malcolm Gets, Parker Posey
	September 13	Balcony Releasing	Al Franken
Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker	October 6	MGM/The Weinstein Company	Bill Nighy, Sophie Okonedo, Alicia Silverstone, Stephen Fry, Ewan McGregor, Andy Serkis, Robbie Coltrane, Missi Pyle
American Gun	March 22	IFC Films	Donald Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Marcia Gay Harden, Linda Cardellini, Nikki Reed, Chris Ayres, Arlen Escarpeta, Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon, Schuyler Fisk, Tony Goldwyn, Melissa Leo
Amazing Grace	September 16 (Toronto Film Festival)	Walden Media	Ioan Gruffudd, Albert Finney, Rufus Sewell, Benedict Cumberbatch, Romola Garai, Ciarán Hinds, Michael Gambon
American Hardcore	September 22	Sony Pictures Classics
Amma Cheppindi	July 28	Just Yellow Entertainments	Sharwanand, Suhasini Mani Ratnam, Shriya Reddy
Arthur's Missing Pal	July 1	Lionsgate/Kidtoon Films	animated, voices of Carr Thompson, Daniel Brochu, Jodie Resther
Artie Lange's Beer League	September 15	Echo Bridge Entertainment	Artie Lange, Ralph Macchio
Ask the Dust	March 10	Paramount Pictures	Colin Farrell, Salma Hayek
Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That!	March 31	ThinkFilm	Mike D, Ad Rock, MCA (the Beastie Boys)
Bambi II	January 26	Walt Disney Pictures	Theatrical release everywhere but US; date refers to Argentina release
Bandidas	September 22	20th Century Fox	Penélope Cruz, Salma Hayek, Steve Zahn
Bommarillu	August 9 (India)	RK Films	Siddharth Narayan, Genelia D'Souza, Prakash Raj, director Bhaskar (Tollywood)
Bon Cop, Bad Cop	August 4	Alliance Atlantis	Colm Feore, Patrick Huard
	August 31	Citizens United/Peace River Company	J.D. Hayworth
Brick	March 31	Focus Features	Rian Johnson (director), Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emilie de Ravin, Nora Zehetner, Matt O'Leary, Lukas Haas, Meagan Good, Noah Fleiss, Noah Segan
Broken Bridges	September 8	Paramount Pictures	Toby Keith
Bubble	January 27	Magnolia Pictures	Steven Soderbergh (director)
	December 2	Kidtoon Films	animated, double feature
A Christmas Carol	November 4	Kidtoon Films	animated
Chup Chup Ke	June 9		Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Neha Dhupia
Clean	April 28	Palm Pictures	Maggie Cheung, Nick Nolte
Confetti	September 15	Fox Searchlight	Jimmy Carr, Martin Freeman, Jessica Stevenson
Container	February 10, Berlin International Film Festival		Lukas Moodysson (director)
Dead Man's Shoes	May 12	Magnolia Pictures	Paddy Considine
Death of a President	September 10	Newmarket Films	Gabriel Range (director)
The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu	April 26	Tartan Films	Cristi Puiu (director)
Deep Sea 3D	March 3	Warner Bros.	Johnny Depp (Narrator), Kate Winslet (Narrator)
''Deliver Us From Evil	October 13	Disarming Films	Documentary, Oscar nominee
District B13	June 2	IFC Films	Cyril Raffaelli, David Belle, Adrian Pasdar
Don't Come Knocking		Sony Pictures Classics	Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange, Eva Marie Saint
Edmond	July 14	First Independent Pictures	William H. Macy, Julia Stiles, Joe Mantegna
L'Enfant	March 24	Sony Pictures Classics	the Dardenne brothers (directors)
Facing the Giants	September 29	Destination Films
Factotum	August 18	IFC Films	Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor
Fanaa	May 26	Yash Raj Films	Aamir Khan, Kajol
Fateless	January 6	ThinkFilm	Lajos Koltai (director)
Fatwa	March 24 (Omaha Film Festival)	Capital City Entertainment, Lab 601 Inc. (in association with)	Lauren Holly, Lacey Chabert
Feast	September 22	The Weinstein Company	Eric Dane, Navi Rawat, Krista Allen
Find Me Guilty	March 17	Freestyle Releasing	Vin Diesel
Five Fingers	July 6	Element Films	Mimi Ferrer, Laurence Fishburne, Touriya Haoud
Gabrielle	July 14	Wellspring	Pascal Greggory, Isabelle Huppert
The Godfather	July 21 (Landmark Theatres in Detroit)	Paramount Pictures	re-release
God On My Side	November 2 (Australia)	Zapruder's Other Films Pty Ltd	Andrew Denton
A Good Woman	February 3	Lions Gate Films	Helen Hunt, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson
The Great New Wonderful	June 23	First Independent Pictures	Maggie Gyllenhaal
The Groomsmen	July 14	Bauer Martinez Entertainment	Edward Burns, Donal Logue, Jay Mohr
''A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints	September 29	First Look Pictures	Shia LaBeouf, Robert Downey Jr., Rosario Dawson
Half Nelson	August 11	THINKFilm	Ryan Gosling
Haven	September 15	Freestyle Releasing	Bill Paxton, Orlando Bloom, Parker Posey
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things		Palm Pictures	Asia Argento, Jimmy Bennett, Dylan and Cole Sprouse
The Heart of the Game	June 9	Miramax Films
Holla	December	Rockstone Pictures	Shelli Boone, Charles Porter
	September 2	Kidtoon Films	animated, double feature
	September 2	Kidtoon Films	animated, double feature
Hollywood Dreams	April 8		Karen Black, Justin Kirk, Melissa Leo
The House of Sand	August 11	Sony Pictures Classics
Idiocracy	September 1	20th Century Fox	Luke Wilson
I'm Reed Fish	June 1	Squared Foot Productions	Jay Baruchel, Alexis Bledel, Schuyler Fisk
It's a Boy/Girl Thing	December 26	Icon Film Distribution	Kevin Zegers, Samaire Armstrong, Sherry Miller, Robert Joy, Sharon Osbourne, Maury Chaykin, Brooke D'Orsay, Emily Hampshire, Genelle Williams, Mpho Koaho
An Inconvenient Truth	May 24	Paramount Classics	Al Gore
Jesus Camp	September 15	Magnolia Pictures
Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna	August 11	Dharma Productions	Amitabh Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan, Rani Mukherjee
Keeping Mum	September 15	ThinkFilm	Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith
Kinky Boots	April 14	Miramax Films	Joel Edgerton, Chiwetel Ejiofor
Krrish	June 28	Yash Raj Films	Hrithik Roshan, Priyanka Chopra, Naseeruddin Shah
Land of the Blind	June 16	Bauer Martinez Entertainment	Donald Sutherland, Ralph Fiennes, Tom Hollander
Lassie	September 1	Roadside Attractions
The Last King of Scotland	September 27	Fox Searchlight	Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Gillian Anderson
The Legend Trip	June 6		Jamie Bilke, Jason Paul Collum, Mark Metcalf
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World	January 20	Warner Independent Pictures	Albert Brooks
The Lost City	April 28	Magnolia Pictures	Andy García
''Love Phobia	April 27 (South Korea)	Cinema Service	Kang Hye-jeong
Loverboy	June 16	THINKFilm	Kyra Sedgwick, Kevin Bacon, Matt Dillon
Manderlay	January 27	IFC Films	Bryce Dallas Howard, Willem Dafoe, Danny Glover
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School	March 31	Samuel Goldwyn Films	Robert Carlyle, Marisa Tomei, Mary Steenburgen
Me and Her	August 22 (Edinburgh Film Festival)	UK Film Council	Karl Davies
Mini's First Time	July 14	First Independent Pictures	Alec Baldwin, Nikki Reed, Luke Wilson
Miss Potter	December 29	Renée Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Emily Watson
La mujer de mi hermano	April 14	Lions Gate Films	Bárbara Mori, Manolo Cardona, Bruno Bichir
	January 1	Hasbro/Kidtoon Films	animated
	August 5	Hasbro/Kidtoon Films	animated
Night Watch	February 17	Fox Searchlight Pictures	Konstantin Khabensky
Night of the Living Dead 3D	November 10	Lux Digital Pictures	Sid Haig, Greg Travis
The Nightmare Before Christmas	October 20	Walt Disney Pictures	animated, remastered 3-D re-release, voices of Chris Sarandon, Danny Elfman, Catherine O'Hara
Nody Saves Christmas	December 2	Kidtoon Films	animated, double feature
The Notorious Bettie Page		April 14	Gretchen Mol, Christian Bauer, Jared Harris
The OH in Ohio	July 14	Cyan Pictures	Parker Posey, Paul Rudd, Danny DeVito
Omkara	July 28	Big Screen Entertainer	Saif Ali Khan, Bipasha Basu, Vivek Oberoi
Our Daily Bread	November 24	First Run Icarus Films	Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Once in a Lifetime	July 7	Miramax Films	Matt Dillon
The Painted Veil	December 15	Warner Independent Pictures	Edward Norton, Naomi Watts
Peaceful Warrior	June 2	Lionsgate	Scott Mechlowicz, Nick Nolte, Amy Smart
	December 27	Paramount Pictures	Won several awards at the German Film Awards
Pinocchio 3000	April 1	Lionsgate/Kidtoon Films	animated, voices of Howie Mandel, Malcolm McDowell, Whoopi Goldberg
Played	November 2	Film and Music Entertainment Inc.	Val Kilmer, Vinnie Jones
Pokiri	April 28	Vaishno Academy	Mahesh Babu, Ileana D'Cruz, Prakash Raj
Premium	January 20	Palm-Star Entertainment	Zoë Saldaña, Hill Harper, Eva Pigford
Princesas	August 23	IFC Films	Candela Peña
The Promise	May 5	Warner Independent Pictures	Cecilia Cheung, Nicholas Tse
The Proposition	May 5	First Look Pictures	Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Emily Watson
The Quiet	August 25	Sony Pictures Classics	Camilla Belle, Elisha Cuthbert
Quinceañera	August 4	Sony Pictures Classics
R-Point	January 13	Tartan Films
Rang De Basanti	January 27	Sony Pictures	Aamir Khan, Soha Ali Khan, R. Madhavan
Renaissance	September 22	Miramax Films	Daniel Craig, Catherine McCormack, Jonathan Pryce, Ian Holm
Revolver	January 26	Redbus	Guy Ritchie (director), Jason Statham, Ray Liotta
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles	September 1	Sony Pictures Classics	Zhang Yimou (director), Ken Takakura
Right At Your Door	September 8	Thousand Words	Mary McCormack, Rory Cochrane, Tony Perez
	February 4	20th Century Fox/Kidtoon Films	animated, double feature, voices of David A. Waterman, Toby McKeehan, Kirk Whalum
	February 4	20th Century Fox/Kidtoon Films	animated, double feature
The Road to Guantanamo	June 23
	August 25 (New York Korean Film Festival)	Harmony Gold USA	animated, Tommy Yune & Dong-Wook Lee (directors), Mark Hamill (voice)
	October 27	Indican Pictures	animated, Phil Nibbelink (director)
Roving Mars	January 27	Walt Disney Pictures	Won a Visual Effects Society award for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Special Venue Project in 2007.
Russian Dolls	May 10	IFC Films
A Scanner Darkly	July 7	Warner Independent Pictures	Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder
The Science of Sleep	September 22	Warner Independent Pictures	Gael García Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Michel Gondry (director)
The Secret of the Sword	May 6	Filmation Associates/Kidtoon Films	animated, re-release, voices of John Erwin, Melendy Britt, Alan Oppenheimer, Linda Gary, George DiCenzo, Erika Scheimer, Lou Scheimer
Scoop	July 28	Focus Features	Woody Allen (director), Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson
Shadowboxer	July 21	Freestyle Releasing	Cuba Gooding, Jr., Helen Mirren, Stephen Dorff
Sherrybaby	September 8	IFC Films	Maggie Gyllenhaal
The Shining	June 30 (Landmark Theatres in Detroit)	Warner Bros.	re-release, Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	February 1	Fantastical Cinema	Tony Todd, Tracy Scoggins
Strangers With Candy	June 28	THINKFilm	Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Matthew Broderick, Dan Hedaya, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ian Holm, Todd Oldham, Sarah Jessica Parker
	October 6	20th Century Fox/Kidtoon Films	animated
Swimmers	March 31	Skouras Pictures	Tara Devon Gallagher, Sarah Paulson, Robert Knott
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance	April 28	Tartan Films	Park Chan-wook (director)
Temporada de patos		Warner Independent Pictures
Le Temps qui reste	July 21	Strand Releasing	Melvil Poupaud, Jeanne Moreau, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
This Film Is Not Yet Rated	September 1	IFC Films	Kirby Dick (director)
	February 10	Green Dog Films	John Leguizamo, Ryan Phillippe
	June 3	Warner Bros. Family Entertainment/Kidtoon Films	animated, voices of Jeff Bennett, Rob Paulsen, Tom Kenny, Tress MacNeille
	March 4	Hasbro/Kidtoon Films	animated
Trust the Man	August 18	Fox Searchlight Pictures	David Duchovny, Julianne Moore, Billy Crudup
12 and Holding	May 19	IFC Films
Typhoon	June 2	Lionsgate	Jang Dong-gun
The U.S. Versus John Lennon	September 15	Lionsgate
Wah-Wah	May 12	Roadside Attractions	Gabriel Byrne, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson, Richard E. Grant (director)
Wassup Rockers	June 23	First Look Pictures	directed by Larry Clark
Water	April 28	Fox Searchlight Pictures	Lisa Ray, John Abraham, Seema Biswas. US release date.
Wicked Little Things	17 November	Sony Pictures Entertainment	Lori Heuring, Scout Taylor-Compton, Chloe Moretz, Geoffrey Lewis
Who Killed the Electric Car?	June 28	Sony Pictures Classics	Tom Hanks, Mel Gibson, Martin Sheen
Why We Fight	January 20	Sony Pictures Classics
Zen Noir	September 15	Magic Lamp	Kim Chan
Zinda	January 13	Eros Pictures	Sanjay Dutt, John Abraham
	January 26	Cubix Pictures (Asia)	Fann Wong, Dennis Chew (voice)

Notes

References

• Box Office Mojo film release schedule.