2008 in movies

Below is a list of movies released in 2008, ordered by release date.

Highest-grossing movies

+ Highest-grossing films of 2008 Rank Title  Studio  Worldwide  North America  UK  Australia  1 The Dark Knight Warner Bros. $1,001,921,825 $533,345,358 $89,066,002 $39,880,001 2 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Paramount/Lucasfilm $786,636,033 $317,101,110 $79,283,312 $27,981,873 3 Kung Fu Panda Paramount/DreamWorks $631,744,560 $215,434,591 $39,405,501 $24,764,811 4 Hancock Columbia $624,386,746 $227,946,274 $49,170,891 $19,636,856 5 Mamma Mia! Universal $609,827,661 $144,130,063 $132,342,643 $29,287,466 6 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Paramount/DreamWorks $603,900,354 $180,010,950 $35,471,617 $15,093,421 7 Quantum of Solace MGM/Columbia $586,090,727 $168,368,427 $80,805,643 $20,645,336 8 Iron Man Paramount/Marvel Studios $585,174,222 $318,412,101 $33,822,889 $18,880,106 9 WALL-E Disney/Pixar $521,311,860 $223,808,164 $41,215,600 $14,165,390 10 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian Disney/Walden $419,665,568 $141,621,490		 $21,581,030	 $13,181,570

Events
 Month  Day  Event January 7  Due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America Strike, NBC and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association scrap plans to hold its 65th Golden Globe Awards ceremony and instead hold a press conference announcing the winners 13  The 65th Golden Globe Awards winners were announced. 16  The 61st BAFTA Awards nominations were announced with Atonement the leading movie with 14 nominations closely followed by No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood, both with 7 nominations 17 – 27  The 26th Sundance Film Festival is opened with the world premiere of Martin McDonagh's In Bruges and screens over 120 movies. The Grand Jury and Audience Award prizes are awarded to Frozen River and The Wackness respectively. The festival is closed by the world premiere of Bernard Shakey's CSNY/Déjà Vu 22  The 80th Academy Awards nominations were announced with No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood the leading movies with 8 nominations each, closely followed by Atonement and Michael Clayton, both with 7 The Oscar nominated actor Heath Ledger, 28, is found dead at his home in Manhattan, New York City, from an accidental prescription pills overdose 23 – 3  The 37th Rotterdam International Film Festival is opened with the world premiere of Lucía Cedrón's narrative feature-movie debut Lamb of God (Cordero de Dios). 26  The 60th Directors Guild of America Award dinner is held in the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, Los Angeles. The Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film prize is awarded to Joel and Ethan Coen 27  The 14th Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony is held in the Shrine Exposition Center, Los Angeles. February 7 – 17  The 58th Berlin International Film Festival is opened with the world premiere of Martin Scorsese's Shine A Light and screens over 350 movies. The Golden Bear prize is awarded to Elite Squad. The Silver Bear prizes are awarded to Paul Thomas Anderson, Best Director, Reza Naji, Best Actor and Sally Hawkins, Best Actress. The festival is closed by the international premiere of Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind 8  The 35th Annie Awards ceremony is held in the UCLA's Royce Hall, Los Angeles. The Best Animated Feature prize is awarded to Ratatouille 9  The 60th Writers Guild of America Awards are announced in a brief statement. The Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Screenplay prizes are awarded to Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men) and Diablo Cody (Juno), respectively 10  The 61st BAFTA Awards ceremony is held in the Royal Opera House, London. Anthony Hopkins is honoured with the Academy Fellowship. 12  The members of the WGA agree a three-year deal with the AMPTP and vote to end the 3-month 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America Strike 23  The 28th Golden Raspberry Awards ceremony is held in Santa Monica, California. The 23rd Independent Spirit Awards ceremony is broadcast. The Best Film award is given to Juno. The Best Actor and Best Actress awards are given to Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ellen Page respectively 24  The 80th Academy Awards ceremony is held in the Kodak Theater, Hollywood. March 3  The 28th Genie Awards 9  The 13th Empire Awards is held in the Grosvenor House Hotel in London, England. 13 – 21  7th Tiburon International Film Festival April 4 – 13  10th Sarasota Film Festival 23 – 4  7th Tribeca Film Festival
 2008 Best Narrative Feature Let the Right One In
 2008 Best Documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell 24 – 8  51st San Francisco International Film Festival May ? - ?  8th Silver Lake Film Festival 14 – 25  Entre les murs wins the Palme d'Or while Gomorrah receives the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. 22 – 15  34th Seattle International Film Festival 26  Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull earns $126 million in the United States and Canada, becoming the highest-grossing debut of 2008 and the second-highest-grossing for a Memorial Day weekend debut behind Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. June 1  The 2008 MTV Movie Awards winners were announced A massive fire destroys portions of facilities at Universal Studios in Universal City near Los Angeles, California. 14 – 22  11th Shanghai International Film Festival 18  Iron Man becomes the first movie of 2008 to earn $300 million in the United States and Canada. 18 – 29  62nd Edinburgh International Film Festival. The festival launches a new sidebar celebrating the spirit of discovery, including selections Bigga Than Ben, Blood Car, Crack Willow, Spike, Strange Girls, and The Third Pint. July 17 – 26  8th Era New Horizons Film Festival August 4  The Dark Knight reached $400 million in record time at 18 days. The previous record was held by Shrek 2, which reached it in 43 days. 6 – 16  61st Locarno International Film Festival 21 – 1  32nd Montreal World Film Festival 27 – 6  65th Venice International Film Festival September 4 – 13  33rd Toronto International Film Festival 15 -20   33rd Polish Film Festival in Gdynia 18 – 27  56th San Sebastián International Film Festival 23 -30   6th Bangkok International Film Festival October 1 – 12  16th Raindance Film Festival 15 – 30  52nd London Film Festival 18 – 26  21st Tokyo International Film Festival November 18 – 28  32nd Cairo International Film Festival December 5 – 14  10th Jakarta International Film Festival 4 – 14  23rd Mar del Plata International Film Festival

Awards
 Category/Organization  14th Critics' Choice Awards January 8, 2009  66th Golden Globe AwardsJanuary 11, 2009  Producers, Directors, Screen Actors, and Writers Guild Awards  62nd BAFTA AwardsFebruary 8, 2009  81st Academy AwardsFebruary 22, 2009 Drama  Musical or Comedy Best Film  Slumdog Millionaire  Vicky Cristina Barcelona  Slumdog Millionaire Best Director  Danny BoyleSlumdog Millionaire Best Actor  Sean PennMilk  Mickey RourkeThe Wrestler  Colin FarrellIn Bruges  Sean PennMilk  Mickey RourkeThe Wrestler  Sean PennMilk Best Actress  Anne HathawayRachel Getting MarriedMeryl StreepDoubt  Kate WinsletRevolutionary Road  Sally HawkinsHappy-Go-Lucky  Meryl StreepDoubt  Kate WinsletThe Reader Best Supporting Actor  Heath LedgerThe Dark Knight Best Supporting Actress  Kate WinsletThe Reader  Penélope CruzVicky Cristina Barcelona Best Screenplay, Adapted Simon BeaufoySlumdog Millionaire  Simon BeaufoySlumdog Millionaire Best Screenplay, Original Dustin Lance BlackMilk Martin McDonaghIn Bruges  Dustin Lance BlackMilk Best Animated Film  WALL•E N/A WALL•E Best Original Score  Slumdog MillionaireA. R. Rahman N/A Slumdog MillionaireA. R. Rahman Best Original Song  "The Wrestler"The Wrestler N/AN/A "Jai Ho"Slumdog Millionaire Best Foreign Language Film  Waltz with Bashir N/A I've Loved You So Long  Departures

2008 wide-release movies

January–March
 ‡ Movies that achieved wide-release status after initial release Opening Title Studio Cast and crew GenreJANUARY 4 One Missed Call  Warner Bros. Pictures / Alcon Entertainment / Kadokawa Pictures  Shannyn Sossamon, Edward Burns, Ana Claudia Talancón, Azura Skye, Ray Wise, Margaret Cho  11 First Sunday  Screen Gems / Cube Vision  Ice Cube, Katt Williams, Tracy Morgan, Loretta Devine, Michael Beach, Keith David, Regina Hall  In the Name of the King  Freestyle Releasing / Boll KG / Brightlight Pictures  Jason Statham, Leelee Sobieski, Ron Perlman, John Rhys-Davies, Claire Forlani, Matthew Lillard, Kristanna Loken, Brian J. White  The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie  Universal Pictures / Big Idea Productions  Mike Nawrocki, Phil Vischer, Cam Clarke, Yuri Lowenthal  18 27 Dresses  Fox 2000 Pictures / Spyglass Entertainment  Katherine Heigl, James Marsden, Malin Åkerman, Judy Greer, Edward Burns  Cassandra's Dream  The Weinstein Company  Woody Allen (director); Hayley Atwell, Colin Farrell, Sally Hawkins, Ewan McGregor, Tom Wilkinson  Cloverfield  Paramount Pictures / Bad Robot Productions  Michael Stahl-David, Mike Vogel, Odette Yustman, Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas  Mad Money  Overture Films / Millennium Films  Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, Katie Holmes, Ted Danson, Stephen Root, Christopher McDonald, Roger Cross  Teeth  Roadside Attractions  Mitchell Lichtenstein (director); Jess Weixler, John Hensley, John Pais, Hale Appleman, Ashley Springer, Lenny Von Dohlen  25 How She Move  Paramount Vantage / MTV Films  Kevin Duhaney, Shawn Desman, Kardinal Offishall, Djanet Sears, Mýa  Meet the Spartans  20th Century Fox / Regency Enterprises  Sean Maguire, Ken Davitian, Carmen Electra, Kevin Sorbo, Jareb Dauplaise, Travis Van Winkle, Diedrich Bader  Minutemen  Salty Pictures Jason Dolley, Luke Benward  Rambo  Lionsgate / The Weinstein Company / Millennium Films / Equity Pictures  Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz, Paul Schulze, Matthew Marsden, Graham McTavish, Ken Howard, Jake La Botz  Untraceable  Screen Gems / Lakeshore Entertainment  Diane Lane, Colin Hanks, Billy Burke, Joseph Michael Cross, Mary Beth Hurt  30Asterix at the Olympic Games  Pathé  FEBRUARY 1 The Eye  Lionsgate / Paramount Vantage  Jessica Alba, Alessandro Nivola, Parker Posey, Rade Šerbedžija, Rachel Ticotin, Chloë Grace Moretz  Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert  Walt Disney Pictures  Miley Cyrus, Jonas Brothers, Kenny Ortega, Billy Ray Cyrus  Over Her Dead Body  New Line Cinema / Gold Circle Films  Eva Longoria, Paul Rudd, Lake Bell, Lindsay Sloane, Jason Biggs  Strange Wilderness  Paramount Pictures / Level 1 Entertainment / Happy Madison Productions  Steve Zahn, Allen Covert, Jonah Hill, Kevin Heffernan, Ashley Scott, Peter Dante, Harry Hamlin, Robert Patrick  6 How to Rob a Bank ‡  IFC First Take  Nick Stahl, Erika Christensen, Gavin Rossdale, Terry Crews, Adriano Aragon, David Carradine  8 Fool's Gold  Warner Bros. Pictures  Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Donald Sutherland, Tiffany Grant, Ray Winstone, Kevin Hart, Ewen Bremner, Brian Hooks, David Roberts, Alexis Dziena, Rohan Nichol, Adam LeFevre  In Bruges ‡  Focus Features  Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, Clémence Poésy, Jérémie Renier  Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins  Universal Pictures / Spyglass Entertainment  Martin Lawrence, Margaret Avery, Joy Bryant, Louis C.K., Michael Clarke Duncan, Mike Epps, Mo'Nique, Nicole Ari Parker, Cedric the Entertainer, James Earl Jones  Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights – Hollywood to the Heartland  Picturehouse Entertainment  Ahmed Ahmed, Sean Fitzgerald, Peter Billingsley, John Caparulo, Bret Ernst, Justin Long, Sebastian Maniscalco, Keir O'Donnell, Vince Vaughn  14 Definitely, Maybe  Universal Pictures / Working Title Films  Ryan Reynolds, Isla Fisher, Derek Luke, Abigail Breslin, Elizabeth Banks, Rachel Weisz  Jumper  20th Century Fox / Regency Enterprises  Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson, Rachel Bilson, Jamie Bell, Diane Lane, Michael Rooker, Jesse James, Tom Hulce, Kristen Stewart, Teddy Dunn, AnnaSophia Robb, Max Thieriot, Barbara Garrick, Shawn Roberts, Meredith Henderson, Nathalie Cox, Tony Nappo, Clark Beasley Jr.  The Spiderwick Chronicles  Paramount Pictures / Nickelodeon Movies  Freddie Highmore, Mary-Louise Parker, Nick Nolte, Joan Plowright, David Strathairn  Step Up 2: The Streets  Touchstone Pictures / Summit Entertainment  Robert Hoffman, Briana Evigan, Channing Tatum, Cassie Ventura  15 Diary of the Dead  The Weinstein Company / Dimension Films  Michelle Morgan, Josh Close, Shawn Roberts, Amy Lalonde, Joe Dinicol, Scott Wentworth, Philip Riccio, Chris Violette, Tatiana Maslany  22 Be Kind Rewind  New Line Cinema / Partizan Films  Jack Black, Mos Def, Danny Glover, Mia Farrow, Melonie Diaz, Chandler Parker, Quinton Aaron, Gio Perez, Marcus Carl Franklin, Irv Gooch, Blake Hightower, Amir Ali Said, Karolina Wydra, Marc Alan Austen, Kid Creole, Jon Glaser, P. J. Byrne, Marceline Hugot, John Tormey, Matt Walsh, Paul Dinello, Sigourney Weaver  Charlie Bartlett  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Sidney Kimmel Entertainment  Robert Downey Jr., Hope Davis, Anton Yelchin, Kat Dennings  U2 3D ‡  National Geographic Entertainment / 3ality Digital  Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr.  Vantage Point  Columbia Pictures / Relativity Media / Original Film  Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt, Zoe Saldana  Witless Protection  Lionsgate / Parallel Entertainment  Larry the Cable Guy, Ivana Miličević, Peter Stormare, Eric Roberts, Jenny McCarthy, Yaphet Kotto  29 Bonneville ‡  SenArt Films  Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Joan Allen, Tom Skerritt, Christine Baranski  City of Men ‡  Miramax Films  Douglas Silva, Darlan Cunha, Jonathan Haagensen, Rodrigo dos Santos  The Other Boleyn Girl  Columbia Pictures / Focus Features / BBC Films / Relativity Media  Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana, Jim Sturgess, Kristin Scott Thomas  Penelope  Summit Entertainment / Stone Village Pictures / Type A Films  Christina Ricci, James McAvoy, Catherine O'Hara, Reese Witherspoon, Richard E. Grant  Semi-Pro  New Line Cinema  Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson, André 3000, Maura Tierney, Will Arnett, David Koechner, Andrew Daly MARCH 7 10,000 BC  Warner Bros. Pictures / Legendary Pictures / Centropolis Entertainment  Steven Strait, Camilla Belle, Cliff Curtis  The Bank Job  Lionsgate / Mosaic Media Group / Relativity Media / Omnilab Media  Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Richard Lintern, David Suchet  College Road Trip  Walt Disney Pictures  Raven-Symoné, Martin Lawrence, Brenda Song, Donny Osmond  Married Life  Sony Pictures Classics  Ira Sachs (director); Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson, Pierce Brosnan, Rachel McAdams  Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day  Focus Features  Bharat Nalluri (director); Frances McDormand, Amy Adams, Ciarán Hinds, Lee Pace  Paranoid Park  IFC Films  Gus Van Sant (director); Gabe Nevins, Taylor Momsen, Jake Miller, Daniel Liu, Lauren McKinney, Scott Patrick Green  Snow Angels  Warner Independent Pictures  David Gordon Green (director/screenplay); Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell, Michael Angarano, Olivia Thirlby, Amy Sedaris, Connor Paolo  14 Doomsday  Rogue Pictures / Intrepid Pictures / Crystal Sky Pictures  Malcolm McDowell, Bob Hoskins, Rhona Mitra, Neil Marshall  Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!  20th Century Fox Animation / Blue Sky Studios  Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Carol Burnett, Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Jesse McCartney, Amy Poehler, Isla Fisher, Will Arnett, Dan Fogler, Jaime Pressly  Funny Games  Warner Independent Pictures  Michael Haneke (director); Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet, Devon Gearhart  Never Back Down  Summit Entertainment / Mandalay Independent Productions  Sean Faris, Amber Heard, Djimon Hounsou, Cam Gigandet, Evan Peters  Sleepwalking  Overture Films  William Maher (director); AnnaSophia Robb, Nick Stahl, Charlize Theron, Dennis Hooper, Woody Harrelson  21 Drillbit Taylor  Paramount Pictures  Owen Wilson, Troy Gentile, Nate Hartley, David Dorfman, Alex Frost, Josh Peck  The Grand  Anchor Bay Entertainment  Zak Penn (director); Woody Harrelson, Cheryl Hines, David Cross, Chris Parnell, Richard Kind, Dennis Farina, Werner Herzog, Ray Romano  Meet the Browns  Lionsgate / Tyler Perry Studios  Tyler Perry, Angela Bassett, Sofía Vergara, David Mann, Tamela Mann  Shutter  20th Century Fox / Regency Enterprises  Joshua Jackson, Rachael Taylor, John Hensley  Under the Same Moon  Fox Searchlight Pictures / The Weinstein Company  Patricia Riggen (director); Adrián Alonso, Kate del Castillo, Eugenio Derbez, America Ferrera, Jesse Garcia  28 21  Columbia Pictures / Relativity Media  Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey, Laurence Fishburne, Aaron Yoo  Chapter 27  Peace Arch Entertainment  Jared Leto, Judah Friedlander, Lindsay Lohan  Run Fatboy Run  New Line Cinema / Picturehouse / Material Entertainment  Simon Pegg, Thandie Newton, Dylan Moran, Hank Azaria  Stop-Loss  Paramount Pictures / MTV Films  Ryan Phillippe, Channing Tatum, Abbie Cornish, Joseph Gordon-Levitt  Superhero Movie  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Dimension Films  Drake Bell, Sara Paxton, Leslie Nielsen, Kevin Hart, Christopher McDonald 

April–June
 ‡ Movies that achieved wide-release status after initial release Opening Title Studio Cast and crew GenreAPRIL 4 Leatherheads  Universal Pictures  George Clooney, Renée Zellweger, John Krasinski, Jonathan Price, Stephen Root  My Blueberry Nights ‡  The Weinstein Company  Norah Jones, Jude Law, David Strathairn, Rachel Weisz, Natalie Portman  Nim's Island  20th Century Fox / Walden Media  Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, Gerard Butler  The Ruins  Paramount Pictures / DreamWorks Pictures / Spyglass Entertainment / Red Hour Films  Jonathan Tucker, Jena Malone, Shawn Ashmore, Laura Ramsey, Joe Anderson  Shine a Light ‡  Paramount Classics  Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood  11 Never Forever  Arts Alliance America  Vera Farmiga, Ha Jung-woo, David Lee McInnis, Jackson Pace  Prom Night  Screen Gems / Original Film / Newmarket Films  Brittany Snow, Scott Porter, Johnathon Schaech, Idris Elba, Jessalyn Gilsig, Linden Ashby, Jessica Stroup  Smart People  Miramax Films / Groundswell Entertainment  Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Thomas Haden Church, Ellen Page  Street Kings  Fox Searchlight Pictures / Regency Enterprises  Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie, Chris Evans, Naomie Harris, The Game  The Visitor ‡  Overture Films / Groundswell Entertainment / Participant Productions  Richard Jenkins, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Gurira, Hiam Abbass  18 88 Minutes  TriStar Pictures / Millennium Films / Emmett/Furla Films  Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Benjamin McKenzie, Leelee Sobieski, Deborah Kara Unger, Amy Brenneman  Anamorph ‡  IFC Films  Willem Dafoe, Scott Speedman, Peter Stormare, Clea Duvall, James Rebhorn, Mick Foley  Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed  Rocky Mountain Pictures  Ben Stein  The Forbidden Kingdom  Lionsgate / The Weinstein Company / Casey Silver Productions / Relativity Media  Jet Li, Jackie Chan, Michael Angarano, Collin Chou, Liu Yi Fei, Li Bingbing  Forgetting Sarah Marshall  Universal Pictures  Jason Segel, Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis, Russell Brand, Bill Hader, Liz Cackowski, Jonah Hill, Paul Rudd  The Life Before Her Eyes  Magnolia Pictures  Uma Thurman, Evan Rachel Wood, Eva Amurri, Brett Cullen, Gabrielle Brennan Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden? ‡  The Weinstein Company  Morgan Spurlock  Young@Heart ‡  Fox Searchlight Pictures   25 Baby Mama  Universal Pictures / Relativity Media  Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Greg Kinnear, Steve Martin, Sigourney Weaver, Romany Malco, Dax Shepard, Maura Tierney, Holland Taylor, Will Forte  Deal  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer  Bret Harrison, Burt Reynolds, Charles Durning, Vincent Van Patten, Michael Sexton, Jennifer Tilly, Shannon Elizabeth  Deception  20th Century Fox  Ewan McGregor, Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Maggie Q  Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay  New Line Cinema / Mandate Pictures  Kal Penn, John Cho, Rob Corddry, Paula Garcés, Neil Patrick Harris, Ed Helms  Rogue ‡  Dimension Films  Radha Mitchell, Michael Vartan, Sam Worthington, Barry Otto  Son of Rambow ‡  Paramount Vantage  Bill Milner, Will Poulter, Jessica Hynes, Eric Sykes  30 Mister Lonely  IFC Films  Diego Luna, Samantha Morton, Denis Lavant, Werner Herzog, James Fox, Anita Pallenberg MAY 2 Iron Man  Paramount Pictures / Marvel Studios  Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Leslie Bibb, Samuel L. Jackson, Jon Favreau  Made of Honor  Columbia Pictures / Relativity Media / Original Film  Patrick Dempsey, Michelle Monaghan, Sydney Pollack, Kevin McKidd, Kelly Carlson  Redbelt ‡  Sony Pictures Classics  Chiwetel Ejiofor, Emily Mortimer, Tim Allen, Alice Braga, Joe Mantegna, Randy Couture, Ricky Jay  Then She Found Me  ThinkFilm  Helen Hunt, Bette Midler, Colin Firth, Matthew Broderick  9 The Fall  Roadside Attractions  Lee Pace, Justine Waddell  Speed Racer  Warner Bros. Pictures / Village Roadshow Pictures / Silver Pictures  Emile Hirsch, John Goodman, Susan Sarandon, Christina Ricci, Matthew Fox  What Happens in Vegas  20th Century Fox / Regency Enterprises  Ashton Kutcher, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Miller, Rob Corddry, Dennis Farina, Zach Galifianakis  16 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian  Walt Disney Pictures / Walden Media  Andrew Adamson (director), Georgie Henley, William Moseley, Skandar Keynes, Anna Popplewell, Ben Barnes, Tilda Swinton, Eddie Izzard, David Walliams  22 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull  Paramount Pictures / Lucasfilm  Harrison Ford, Shia LaBeouf, Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen, Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Jim Broadbent  23 War, Inc.  First Look Studios  John Cusack, Hilary Duff, Marisa Tomei, Joan Cusack, Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley  28 Savage Grace ‡  IFC Films  Julianne Moore, Stephen Dillane, Eddie Redmayne, Elena Anaya, Unax Ugalde, Belén Rueda, Hugh Dancy  30 The Foot Fist Way  Paramount Vantage / MTV Films  Danny McBride  Sex and the City  New Line Cinema / HBO Films  Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Chris Noth, Mario Cantone, David Eigenberg, Willie Garson  The Strangers  Rogue Pictures / Intrepid Pictures  Liv Tyler, Scott Speedman, Gemma Ward JUNE 6 And When Did You Last See Your Father?  Sony Pictures Classics  Jim Broadbent, Colin Firth, Juliet Stevenson  Kung Fu Panda  Paramount Pictures / DreamWorks Animation  Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Jackie Chan, Angelina Jolie, Lucy Liu, Ian McShane, David Cross, Michael Clarke Duncan, James Hong, Randall Duk Kim  Mongol ‡  Picturehouse  Tadanobu Asano, Sun Honglei, Chuluuny Khulan, Amadu Mamadakov  The Promotion  Dimension Films  Seann William Scott, John C. Reilly, Jenna Fischer, Lili Taylor, Fred Armisen, Gil Bellows  You Don't Mess with the Zohan  Columbia Pictures / Relativity Media / Happy Madison Productions  Adam Sandler, John Turturro, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Nick Swardson  13 The Children of Huang Shi  Sony Pictures Classics / Hyde Park Entertainment  Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh, Guang Li  The Happening  20th Century Fox / UTV Motion Pictures / Spyglass Entertainment  Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo, Betty Buckley, Alan Ruck  The Incredible Hulk  Universal Pictures / Marvel Studios  Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, William Hurt  Quid Pro Quo  Magnolia Pictures  Nick Stahl, Vera Farmiga, Jacob Pitts, Pablo Schreiber, Joshua Leonard, James Frain, Aimee Mullins, Kate Burton  20 Brick Lane  Sony Pictures Classics  Tannishtha Chatterjee, Satish Kaushik, Christopher Simpson, Naeema Begum, Lana Rahman, Lalita Ahmed  Get Smart  Warner Bros. Pictures / Village Roadshow Pictures  Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Alan Arkin, Ken Davitian, Dwayne Johnson, Terence Stamp, David Koechner, Masi Oka, Nate Torrence, Bill Murray, James Caan, Dalip Singh  Kit Kittredge: An American Girl ‡  Picturehouse / HBO Films  Abigail Breslin, Chris O'Donnell, Julia Ormond, Joan Cusack, Stanley Tucci, Jane Krakowski, Glenne Headly, Wallace Shawn, Max Thieriot, Willow Smith  The Love Guru  Paramount Pictures / Spyglass Entertainment  Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, Ben Kingsley, John Oliver, Verne Troyer, Romany Malco  27 Finding Amanda  Magnolia Pictures  Brittany Snow, Peter Facinelli, Matthew Broderick, Daniel Roebuck  WALL-E  Walt Disney Pictures / Pixar Animation Studios  Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Sigourney Weaver, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy, MacInTalk  Wanted  Universal Pictures / Spyglass Entertainment / Relativity Media  Morgan Freeman, James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie, Thomas Kretschmann, Common, Marc Warren, Chris Pratt 

July–September
 ‡ Movies that achieved wide-release status after initial release Opening Title Studio Cast and crew GenreJULY 2 Hancock  Columbia Pictures / Relativity Media / Overbrook Entertainment / Weed Road Pictures / Blue Light  Will Smith, Charlize Theron, Jason Bateman  3 The Wackness  Sony Pictures Classics  Ben Kingsley, Josh Peck, Famke Janssen, Olivia Thirlby, Mary-Kate Olsen, Method Man  11 Garden Party  Roadside Attractions  Willa Holland, Vinessa Shaw  Hellboy II: The Golden Army  Universal Pictures / Relativity Media  Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, Jeffrey Tambor, Luke Gross, Anna Walton, John Hurt  Journey to the Center of the Earth  New Line Cinema / Walden Media  Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, Anita Briem  Meet Dave  20th Century Fox  Eddie Murphy, Gabrielle Union, Elizabeth Banks  The Stone Angel  Alliance Atlantis  Ellen Burstyn, Ellen Page, Cole Hauser, Christine Horne, Kevin Zegers, Dylan Baker  18 The Dark Knight  Warner Bros. Pictures / Legendary Pictures / DC Comics / Syncopy  Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Morgan Freeman, Eric Roberts, Cillian Murphy, Jonathan Sadowski, Johnathon Schaech  Mamma Mia!  Universal Pictures / Relativity Media  Meryl Streep, Christine Baranski, Julie Walters, Amanda Seyfried, Dominic Cooper, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård  Space Chimps  20th Century Fox / Starz Animation / Vanguard Animation  Andy Samberg, Jeff Daniels, Cheryl Hines, Kenan Thompson, Stanley Tucci, Patrick Warburton, Kristin Chenoweth, Omid Abtahi, Patrick Breen, Jane Lynch, Kath Soucie, Carlos Alazraqui, Zack Shada  23 Boy A  The Weinstein Company  Andrew Garfield, Peter Mullan, Katie Lyons  25 Brideshead Revisited ‡  Miramax Films  Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon, Matthew Goode, Hayley Atwell, Ben Whishaw  Step Brothers  Columbia Pictures / Relativity Media  Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Richard Jenkins, Mary Steenburgen  The X-Files: I Want to Believe  20th Century Fox  David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Peet, Mitch Pileggi, Xzibit, Billy Connolly, Callum Keith Rennie, Adam Godley AUGUST 1 Frozen River ‡  Sony Pictures Classics  Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, Charlie McDermott, Michael O'Keefe, Mark Boone Junior  The Midnight Meat Train ‡  Lionsgate / Lakeshore Entertainment  Bradley Cooper, Leslie Bibb, Brooke Shields, Roger Bart, Ted Raimi, Vinnie Jones  The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor  Universal Pictures / Relativity Media  Brendan Fraser, Jet Li, Maria Bello, Michelle Yeoh, John Hannah, Luke Ford, Isabella Leong, Russell Wong  Swing Vote  Touchstone Pictures  Kevin Costner, Paula Patton, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, George Lopez, Dennis Hopper, Nathan Lane  6 Pineapple Express  Columbia Pictures / Relativity Media  Seth Rogen, James Franco, Danny R. McBride, Gary Cole, Craig Robinson, Kevin Corrigan, Rosie Perez, Amber Heard, Ed Begley, Jr., James Remar  The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2  Warner Bros. Pictures / Alcon Entertainment  Amber Tamblyn, Blake Lively, Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera, Jesse Williams, Kyle Schmid, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Rachel Nichols  8 Beer For My Horses  Roadside Attractions  Toby Keith, Rodney Carrington, Ted Nugent, Tom Skerritt, Claire Forlani, Barry Corbin, Greg Serano, Willie Nelson, Gina Gershon  Elegy  Samuel Goldwyn Films / Lakeshore Entertainment  Penélope Cruz, Ben Kingsley, Dennis Hopper, Patricia Clarkson, Peter Sarsgaard  Hell Ride  Dimension Films  Larry Bishop, Michael Madsen, Vinnie Jones, David Carradine, Dennis Hopper  What We Do Is Secret  Peace Arch Entertainment  Shane West, Bijou Phillips, Rick Gonzalez, Noah Segan, Ray Park  13 Tropic Thunder  Paramount Pictures / DreamWorks Pictures / Red Hour Films  Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Steve Coogan, Brandon T. Jackson, Nick Nolte, Tom Cruise, Danny McBride, Jay Baruchel  15 Fly Me to the Moon  Summit Entertainment / nWave Pictures  Nicollette Sheridan, Tim Curry, Christopher Lloyd, Robert Patrick, Kelly Ripa, Adrienne Barbeau, Ed Begley, Jr., Buzz Aldrin  Henry Poole Is Here  Overture Films / Lakeshore Entertainment  Luke Wilson, Adriana Barraza, Radha Mitchell, Morgan Lily, Cheryl Hines, George Lopez  Mirrors  20th Century Fox / Regency Enterprises  Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, Amy Smart  Wild Child  Universal Pictures / StudioCanal / Working Title Films  Emma Roberts, Alex Pettyfer, Natasha Richardson  Star Wars: The Clone Wars  Warner Bros. Pictures / Lucasfilm  Matt Lanter, Dee Bradley Baker, Tom Kane, Samuel L. Jackson, Christopher Lee, Anthony Daniels, Ashley Eckstein, James Arnold Taylor, Ian Abercrombie, Nika Futterman, Matthew Wood, Kevin Michael Richardson  Vicky Cristina Barcelona  The Weinstein Company  Scarlett Johansson, Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Rebecca Hall, Chris Messina, Patricia Clarkson, Kevin Dunn  20 The Rocker  20th Century Fox  Rainn Wilson, Christina Applegate, Teddy Geiger, Josh Gad, Will Arnett, Emma Stone, Jeff Garlin, Jane Lynch  22 Death Race  Universal Pictures / Relativity Media  Jason Statham, Joan Allen, Ian McShane, Tyrese Gibson, Jacob Vargas, Frederick Koehler, Robin Shou  The Fifth Commandment  Freestyle Releasing  Rick Yune  Hamlet 2 ‡  Focus Features  Steve Coogan, Catherine Keener, Amy Poehler, David Arquette, Elisabeth Shue, Melonie Diaz  The House Bunny  Columbia Pictures / Relativity Media / Happy Madison Productions  Anna Faris, Emma Stone, Colin Hanks, Katharine McPhee, Rumer Willis, Kat Dennings, Beverly D'Angelo, Kiely Williams, Hugh Hefner  The Longshots  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Dimension Films  Ice Cube, Keke Palmer, Matt Craven  Trouble the Water  Zeitgeist Films   27 Traitor  Overture Films  Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Saïd Taghmaoui, Jeff Daniels, Neal McDonough  29 Babylon A.D.  20th Century Fox  Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, Mélanie Thierry, Gérard Depardieu, Charlotte Rampling  College  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer  Drake Bell, Andrew Caldwell, Ryan Pinkston, Kevin Covais, Nick Zano  Disaster Movie  Lionsgate  Carmen Electra, Kim Kardashian, Matt Lanter, Vanessa Minnillo, Nicole Parker, Crista Flanagan  Goal II: Living the Dream  Walt Disney Pictures  Kuno Becker, Alessandro Nivola, Anna Friel, Stephen Dillane, Leonor Varela  I Served the King of England  Sony Pictures Classics  Ivan Barnev, Oldřich Kaiser, Julia Jentsch, Martin Huba, Marián Labuda, Milan Lasica, Zuzana Fialová, Josef Abrhám SEPTEMBER 5 Bangkok Dangerous  Lionsgate / Virtual Studios / Saturn Films  Nicolas Cage, Chakrit Yamnam, Charlie Yeung  12The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Miramax Films   Burn After Reading  Focus Features / StudioCanal / Relativity Media / Working Title Films  George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Richard Jenkins, Brad Pitt  The Family That Preys  Lionsgate  Alfre Woodard, Sanaa Lathan, Rockmond Dunbar, KaDee Strickland, Cole Hauser, Robin Givens, Kathy Bates  Proud American  Slowhand Cinema  Jonathan Banks, Dennis Haskins, Ken Howard, Marc McClure, Kimberlin Brown  Righteous Kill  Universal Pictures / Overture Films  Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, 50 Cent, Carla Gugino, Donnie Wahlberg, Brian Dennehy, John Leguizamo  Towelhead ‡  Warner Independent Pictures  Aaron Eckhart, Toni Collette, Maria Bello, Peter Macdissi, Summer Bishil, Lynn Collins  The Women  Picturehouse  Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett Smith, Carrie Fisher, Cloris Leachman, Debi Mazar, Bette Midler  13 Superior Ultraman 8 Brothers  Shochiku  Hiroshi Nagano, Susumu Kurobe, Kohji Moritsugu, Jiro Dan, Keiji Takamine, Takeshi Tsuruno  19 Appaloosa ‡  New Line Cinema  Viggo Mortensen, Ed Harris, Renée Zellweger, Jeremy Irons, Lance Henriksen  Battle in Seattle ‡  Redwood Palms Pictures  André Benjamin, Jennifer Carpenter, Woody Harrelson, Martin Henderson, Ray Liotta, Connie Nielsen, Michelle Rodriguez, Channing Tatum, Charlize Theron, Ivana Miličević  The Duchess ‡  Paramount Vantage  Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling, Dominic Cooper, Hayley Atwell  Ghost Town  Paramount Pictures / DreamWorks Pictures / Spyglass Entertainment  Ricky Gervais, Téa Leoni, Greg Kinnear, Billy Campbell, Kristen Wiig, Alan Ruck  Igor  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / The Weinstein Company  John Cusack, Steve Buscemi, John Cleese, Jennifer Coolidge, Arsenio Hall, Dana Snyder, Eddie Izzard, Jay Leno, Molly Shannon, Christian Slater  Lakeview Terrace  Screen Gems / Overbrook Entertainment  Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson, Kerry Washington, Jay Hernandez  Local Color  monterey media  Armin Mueller-Stahl, Trevor Morgan, Ray Liotta, Charles Durning, Samantha Mathis  My Best Friend's Girl  Lionsgate  Dane Cook, Kate Hudson, Jason Biggs, Lizzy Caplan, Alec Baldwin, Diora Baird  26 Eagle Eye  Paramount Pictures / DreamWorks Pictures  Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Michael Chiklis, Anthony Mackie, Billy Bob Thornton  Fireproof  Samuel Goldwyn Films  Kirk Cameron, Erin Bethea, Ken Bevel, Stephen Dervan, Jason McLeod, Alex Kendrick  Forever Strong  Crane Movie Company  Gary Cole, Sean Faris, Arielle Kebbel, Penn Badgley, Sean Astin, Neal McDonough  Miracle at St. Anna  Touchstone Pictures  Derek Luke, Michael Ealy, Laz Alonso, Omar Benson Miller, Matteo Sciabordi, John Leguizamo  Nights in Rodanthe  Warner Bros. Pictures / Village Roadshow Pictures  Richard Gere, Diane Lane, James Franco, Scott Glenn, Christopher Meloni, Viola Davis, Mae Whitman 

October–December
 ‡ Movies that achieved wide-release status after initial release Opening Title Studio Cast and crew GenreOCTOBER 3 An American Carol  Vivendi Entertainment  Kevin Farley, Kelsey Grammer, Jon Voight, Dennis Hopper, Leslie Nielsen, Jillian Murray  Beverly Hills Chihuahua  Walt Disney Pictures  Drew Barrymore, George Lopez, Eddie "Piolín" Sotelo, Andy García, Plácido Domingo, Edward James Olmos, Paul Rodriguez, Cheech Marin  Blindness  Miramax Films  Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Alice Braga, Yūsuke Iseya, Yoshino Kimura, Don McKellar, Danny Glover  Flash of Genius  Universal Pictures / Spyglass Entertainment  Greg Kinnear, Dermot Mulroney, Lauren Graham  How to Lose Friends & Alienate People  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer  Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, Jeff Bridges, Megan Fox, Danny Huston, Gillian Anderson  Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist  Columbia Pictures / Mandate Pictures  Michael Cera, Kat Dennings, Alexis Dziena, Aaron Yoo, Rafi Gavron  Religulous ‡  Lionsgate / Thousand Words  Bill Maher  8 RocknRolla ‡  Warner Bros. Pictures  Gerard Butler, Thandie Newton, Jeremy Piven, Idris Elba, Tom Wilkinson, Ludacris  10 Body of Lies  Warner Bros. Pictures / Scott Free Productions  Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe  City of Ember  20th Century Fox / Walden Media / Playtone  Bill Murray, Tim Robbins, Saoirse Ronan, Toby Jones, Harry Treadaway, Martin Landau  The Express  Universal Pictures / Relativity Media  Dennis Quaid, Rob Brown, Charles S. Dutton  Quarantine  Screen Gems  Jennifer Carpenter, Steve Harris, Columbus Short, Jay Hernandez, Johnathon Schaech  12Flick  Peace Arch / AV Pictures / Monster Films  Hugh O'Conor, Faye Dunaway, Liz Smith, Michelle Ryan, Mark Benton, Julia Foster  17 Max Payne  20th Century Fox  Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Beau Bridges, Ludacris, Kate Burton, Donal Logue, Nelly Furtado, Amaury Nolasco, Chris O'Donnell  The Secret Life of Bees  Fox Searchlight Pictures / Overbrook Entertainment  Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifah, Alicia Keys, Paul Bettany, Jennifer Hudson, Sophie Okonedo, Hilarie Burton  Sex Drive  Summit Entertainment  Josh Zuckerman, James Marsden, Seth Green, Clark Duke, Amanda Crew  W.  Lionsgate  Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Banks, James Cromwell, Ellen Burstyn, Rob Corddry, Jeffrey Wright, Thandie Newton, Ioan Gruffudd, Scott Glenn  24 Changeling ‡  Universal Pictures / Imagine Entertainment  Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Geoff Pierson, Jeffrey Donovan, Jason Butler Harner, Colm Feore, Amy Ryan  High School Musical 3: Senior Year  Walt Disney Pictures  Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman, Olesya Rulin, Chris Warren Jr., Ryne Sanborn, Kaycee Stroh, Alyson Reed Passengers  TriStar Pictures / Mandate Pictures  Anne Hathaway, Patrick Wilson, Andre Braugher, Clea DuVall, Chelah Horsdal, David Morse, Dianne Wiest, William B. Davis, Ryan Robbins, Don Thompson, Stacy Grant   Pride and Glory  New Line Cinema  Edward Norton, Colin Farrell, Jon Voight, Noah Emmerich  Saw V  Lionsgate / Twisted Pictures  Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Julie Benz, Scott Patterson, Betsy Russell  31 The Haunting of Molly Hartley  Freestyle Releasing  Chace Crawford, Haley Bennett, AnnaLynne McCord, Shannon Marie Woodward  The Other End of the Line  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Hyde Park Entertainment  James Dodson (director); Jesse Metcalfe, Shriya Saran, Anupam Kher, Tara Sharma, Larry Miller, Sara Foster, Resh Ballam  Zack and Miri Make a Porno  The Weinstein Company  Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Jason Mewes, Jeff Anderson, Craig Robinson, Traci Lords, Brandon Routh NOVEMBER 7 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas ‡  Miramax Films  Vera Farmiga, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend, Asa Butterfield, Jack Scanlon  Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa  Paramount Pictures / DreamWorks Animation / PDI/DreamWorks  Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett Smith, David Schwimmer, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer, Andy Richter, Bernie Mac, Sherri Shepherd, Alec Baldwin, will.i.am  Role Models  Universal Pictures / Relativity Media  Paul Rudd, Seann William Scott, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Elizabeth Banks, Jane Lynch  Soul Men  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Dimension Films  Samuel L. Jackson, Bernie Mac, Sean Hayes, Sharon Leal, Jennifer Coolidge, Isaac Hayes  12 Slumdog Millionaire ‡  Fox Searchlight Pictures / Warner Bros. Pictures  Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Irrfan Khan, Anil Kapoor  14 Quantum of Solace  Columbia Pictures  Daniel Craig, Mathieu Amalric, Olga Kurylenko, Gemma Arterton, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, Giancarlo Giannini  21 Bolt  Walt Disney Pictures / Walt Disney Animation Studios  John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Susie Essman, Mark Walton, Malcolm McDowell, Nick Swardson, Diedrich Bader, Chloë Grace Moretz, Greg Germann, James Lipton, Randy Savage, Kari Wahlgren  Twilight  Summit Entertainment  Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Nikki Reed, Jackson Rathbone, Ashley Greene  26 Australia  20th Century Fox  Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Bryan Brown  Four Christmases  New Line Cinema / Spyglass Entertainment  Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon, Sissy Spacek, Mary Steenburgen, Kristin Chenoweth, Robert Duvall, Jon Voight, Jon Favreau, Tim McGraw  Milk ‡  Focus Features  Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, James Franco, Emile Hirsch, Joseph Cross, Alison Pill, Diego Luna, Victor Garber  Transporter 3  Lionsgate  Jason Statham, François Berléand, Robert Knepper DECEMBER 5 Cadillac Records  TriStar Pictures / Sony Music Entertainment / Parkwood Entertainment  Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Mos Def, Beyoncé Knowles, Gabrielle Union, Columbus Short, Cedric the Entertainer, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Eamonn Walker  Frost/Nixon ‡  Universal Pictures / Imagine Entertainment / Working Title Films / StudioCanal /  Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon, Oliver Platt, Sam Rockwell, Matthew Macfadyen, Toby Jones, Rebecca Hall, Patty McCormack, Andy Milder  Nobel Son  Freestyle Releasing  Alan Rickman, Bryan Greenberg, Shawn Hatosy, Mary Steenburgen, Bill Pullman, Eliza Dushku, Danny DeVito, Ted Danson, Tracey Walter  Punisher: War Zone  Lionsgate / Marvel Knights  Ray Stevenson, Dominic West, Julie Benz, Wayne Knight, Dash Mihok, Colin Salmon, Doug Hutchison  10 The Reader ‡  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / The Weinstein Company / Mirage Enterprises  Ralph Fiennes, Kate Winslet, David Kross, Alexandra Maria Lara, Lena Olin  12 Adulthood ‡  Lionsgate  Noel Clarke, Ben Drew, Danny Dyer  Che ‡  IFC Films  Benicio del Toro, Rodrigo Santoro, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Franka Potente, Julia Ormond, Lou Diamond Phillips, Demián Bichir  The Day the Earth Stood Still  20th Century Fox  Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, Jaden Smith, John Cleese, Kyle Chandler  Delgo  Freestyle Releasing  Freddie Prinze, Jr., Jennifer Love Hewitt, Anne Bancroft, Chris Kattan, Val Kilmer, Malcolm McDowell, Louis Gossett, Jr., Michael Clarke Duncan, Eric Idle, Burt Reynolds  Doubt ‡  Miramax Films  Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis  Gran Torino ‡  Warner Bros. Pictures / Village Roadshow Pictures  Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang, Ahhey Her  Nothing like the Holidays  Overture Films  John Leguizamo, Debra Messing, Freddy Rodriguez, Alfred Molina, Jay Hernandez, Luis Guzmán  17 The Wrestler ‡  Fox Searchlight Pictures  Mickey Rourke, Ernest Miller, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood, Todd Barry  19 Seven Pounds  Columbia Pictures / Relativity Media / Overbrook Entertainment / Escape Artists  Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, Michael Ealy, Barry Pepper  The Tale of Despereaux  Universal Pictures / Relativity Media  Matthew Broderick, Emma Watson, Dustin Hoffman, Tracey Ullman, William H. Macy, Kevin Kline, Stanley Tucci, Robbie Coltrane, Ciarán Hinds, Frances Conroy, Tony Hale, Richard Jenkins, Frank Langella, Christopher Lloyd, Charles Shaughnessy, Sigourney Weaver  Yes Man  Warner Bros. Pictures / Village Roadshow Pictures  Jim Carrey, Zooey Deschanel, Terence Stamp, Bradley Cooper, Rhys Darby, Danny Masterson  25 Bedtime Stories  Walt Disney Pictures  Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Guy Pearce, Teresa Palmer, Courteney Cox, Lucy Lawless, Russell Brand, Richard Griffiths, Aisha Tyler, Jonathan Pryce  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button  Warner Bros. Pictures / Paramount Pictures  Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Taraji P. Henson, Julia Ormond, Jared Harris, Phyllis Somerville, Elias Koteas, Jason Flemyng, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, Elle Fanning  Last Chance Harvey ‡  Overture Films  Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Eileen Atkins, Kathy Baker, James Brolin, Richard Schiff, Liane Balaban  Marley & Me  Fox 2000 Pictures / Regency Enterprises  Jennifer Aniston, Owen Wilson, Kathleen Turner  The Spirit  Lionsgate  Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Eva Mendes, Jaime King, Sarah Paulson, Dan Lauria  Valkyrie  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / United Artists  Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Christian Berkel, Bill Nighy, David Schofield, Terence Stamp, Carice van Houten  26 Revolutionary Road ‡  Paramount Vantage / DreamWorks Pictures / BBC Films  Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Kathy Bates, Michael Shannon, Kathryn Hahn, David Harbour, Richard Easton, Zoe Kazan, Jay O. Sanders  31 Defiance ‡  Paramount Vantage  Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, George MacKay, Alexa Davalos, Mia Wasikowska, Tomas Arana 

Notable deaths

 Month  Date  Name  Age  Country  Profession  Notable movies January 1  Peter Caffrey  58  UK  Actor   2  George MacDonald Fraser  82  UK  Screenwriter   2  Brice Mack  90  USA  Background Artist   10  Vampira  86  USA  Actress   15  Brad Renfro  25  USA  Actor   18  Lois Nettleton  80  USA  Actress   19  Suzanne Pleshette  70  USA  Actress   22  Roberto Gari  88  USA  Actor 22  Heath Ledger  28  Australia  Actor   22  Kevin Stoney  87  UK  Actor  25  Christopher Allport  60  USA  Actor   25  Louisa Horton  87  USA  Actress   February 2  Barry Morse  89  Canada  Actor   3  Charles Fawcett  92  UK  Actor   4  Augusta Dabney  89  USA  Actress   6  John Alvin  59  USA  Poster Artist   7  Tamara Desni  94  Germany-UK  Actress   8  Eva Dahlbeck  87  Sweden  Actress   8  Jane Lumb  65  UK  Actress   9  Robert DoQui  73  USA  Actor   10  Roy Scheider  75  USA  Actor   11  James Quinn  88  UK  Producer   12  Oscar Brodney  100  USA  Screenwriter   12  David Groh  68  USA  Actor   13  Kon Ichikawa  92  Japan  Director   13  Lionel Mark Smith  62  USA  Actor   14  Perry Lopez  76  USA  Actor   18  Alain Robbe-Grillet  85  France  Screenwriter, Director  Last Year at Marienbad 19  Mary Barclay  91  UK  Actress   19  David Watkin  82  UK  Cinematographer   21  Ben Chapman  82  USA  Actor  Creature from the Black Lagoon 22  Dennis Letts  73  USA  Actor   28  John Bliss  77  USA  Actor   29  Gayne Rescher  83  USA  Cinematographer   March 4  Leonard Rosenman  83  USA  Composer   6  Gustaw Holoubek  84  Poland  Actor   6  Alex Sharp  86  USA  Stuntman, Actor   7  Kay Callard  84  Canada  Actress   8  Carol Barnes  63  UK  Actress  Shaun of the Dead 11  David Nettheim  83  Australia  Actor  Paws 11  Dave Stevens  52  USA  Illustrator, Producer The Rocketeer 12  Erwin Geschonneck  101  Germany  Actor Jacob the Liar 16  Ivan Dixon  76  USA  Actor, Director   18  Philip Jones Griffiths  72  UK  Photographer  The Deer Hunter 18  Anthony Minghella  54  UK  Director, Screenwriter, Producer   19  Arthur C. Clarke  90  Sri Lanka  Writer, Actor   19  Paul Scofield  86  UK  Actor   24  Rafael Azcona  81  Spain  Screenwriter   24  Richard Widmark  93  USA  Actor   25  Art Aragon  80  USA  Actor   25  Tony Church  77  UK  Actor   25  Abby Mann  80  USA  Screenwriter   31  Jules Dassin  96  USA  Director   April 1  Floyd Simmons  84  USA  Actor   3  Frosty Freeze  44  USA  Singer, Actor  Flashdance 5  Alex Grasshoff  79  USA  Director  Young Americans 5  Charlton Heston  84  USA  Actor   8  Stanley Kamel  65  USA  Actor   9  Lloyd Lamble  94  Australia  Actor  The Belles of St Trinian's 11  Willoughby Goddard  81  UK  Actor   14  Ollie Johnston  95  USA  Animator   14  June Travis  93  USA  Actress   15  Hazel Court  93  UK  Actress   18  Kay Linaker  94  USA  Actress   18  Joy Page  83  USA  Actress   20  Bebe Barron  82  USA  Composer Forbidden Planet 23  Dave Atkins  67  UK  Actor   24  Tristram Cary  82  UK  Composer   29  Lewis Croft  88  USA  Actor  The Wizard of Oz 29  Julie Ege  64  Norway  Actress   May 1  Bernard Archard  91  UK  Actor   1  Terry Duggan  76  UK  Actor, Wrangler   2  Beverlee McKinsey  72  USA  Actress   4  Fred Haines  72  USA  Screenwriter, Director   12  Robert Russell  71  UK  Actor   12  Claudio Undari  73  Italy  Actor   13  Jill Adams  77  UK  Actress   13  John Phillip Law  70  USA  Actor   14  John Forbes-Robertson  80  UK  Actor   15  Alexander Courage  88  USA  Composer, Orchestrator   16  Sandy Howard  80  USA  Director, Producer   16  David Mitton  69  UK  Writer, Director   18  Irma Córdoba  94  Argentina  Actor   18  Joseph Pevney  96  USA  Director   19  Vijay Tendulkar  80  India  Screenwriter   22  Harry Lange  77  Germany  Production Designer   24  Rob Knox  18  UK  Actor  Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 24  Dick Martin  86  USA  Actor   26  Sydney Pollack  73  USA  Actor, Director, Producer   28  Earle Hagen  88  USA  Composer, Orchestrator   29  Harvey Korman  81  USA  Actor   June 1  Ted Manson  81  USA  Actor   2  Bo Diddley  79  USA  Actor, Musician   2  Mel Ferrer  90  USA  Actor, Director   5  Bruce Purchase  69  UK  Actor  Macbeth 6  Bobby Anderson  75  USA  Actor  It's a Wonderful Life 7  Dino Risi  91  Italy  Director, Writer   11  Jean Desailly  87  France  Actor   15  Stan Winston  62  USA  Director, Makeup Artist   17  Henry Beckman  86  Spain  Actor   17  Cyd Charisse  86  USA  Actress, Dancer   18  Jean Delannoy  100  France  Director   21  Kermit Love  91  USA  Puppeteer, Costume Designer  The Muppet Movie 22  George Carlin  71  USA  Actor, Comedian   22  Dody Goodman  93  USA  Actress   23  John Furlong  75  USA  Actor   24  William Vince  45  Canada  Producer   26  Lilyan Chauvin  82  France  Actress   29  Don S. Davis  67  USA  Actor   July 2  Elizabeth Spriggs  78  UK  Actress   4  Evelyn Keyes  91  USA  Actress   6  Nonna Mordyukova  82  Russia  Actress   7  Bruce Conner  74  USA  Director   9  Charles H. Joffe  78  USA  Producer   11  Breno Mello  76  Brazil  Actor  Black Orpheus 14  Hugh Lloyd  85  UK  Actor  Quadrophenia 17  Paul Sorensen  82  USA  Actor   22  Patrick Connor  81  UK  Actor   22  Estelle Getty  84  USA  Actress   25  Randy Pausch  47  USA  Professor, Actor  Star Trek 25  Mikhail Pugovkin  85  Russia  Actor   27  Youssef Chahine  82  Egypt  Director   27  Marisa Merlini  84  Italy  Actress   29  Luther Davis  91  USA  Screenwriter   August 1  Gertan Klauber  76    Actor   7  Bernie Brillstein  77  USA  Producer   9  Bernie Mac  50  USA  Actor   10  Isaac Hayes  65  USA  Actor, Songwriter   11  George Furth  75  USA  Actor   11  Terence Rigby  71  UK  Actor   15  Molly McClure  89  USA  Actress   21  Fred Crane  90  USA  Actor  Gone with the Wind 24  Peter Sutton  65  British  Sound Mixer   25  Marpessa Dawn  74  USA  Actor   25  Rita Quigley  85  USA  Actress   31  Ken Campbell  66  UK Actor, Writer   31  Jerry Reed  71  USA  Actor, Singer, Songwriter   September 1  Don LaFontaine  68  USA  Voice actor  Prolific and iconic voice-over actor featured in over 5,000 movie trailers 1  Michael Pate  88  Australia  Actor, Director   2  Bill Melendez  91  Mexico  Animator, Director   6  Anita Page  98  USA  Actress   8  Celia Gregory  58  UK  Actress   17  Humberto Solás  67  Cuba  Director  Lucía 18  Florestano Vancini  82  Italy  Director, Writer   19  Jun Ichikawa  59  Japan  Director  Tony Takitani 19  David Jones  74  UK  Director   20  William Fox  97  UK  Actor   26  Paul Newman  83  USA  Actor, Director   27  Mahendra Kapoor  74  India  Playback Artist   29  Louis Guss  90  USA  Actor   October 1  Robert Arthur  87  USA  Actor   5  Kim Chan  90  USA  Actor, Producer   5  Ken Ogata  71  Japan  Actor   7  Peter Copley  93  UK  Actor   8  Bob Friend  70  UK  Actor   8  Eileen Herlie  90  UK  Actress    11  Neal Hefti  85  USA  Composer   11  Mark Shivas  70  UK  Producer   11  Gil Stratton  86  USA  Actor   13  Guillaume Depardieu  37  France  Actor   15  Edie Adams  81  USA  Actress   15  Nathan Davis  91  USA  Actor   18  Peter Gordeno  69  UK  Actor, Choreographer  Carry On Columbus 18  Xie Jin  84  China  Director   19  Rudy Ray Moore  81  USA  Actor   20  John Ringham  80  UK  Actor  V for Vendetta 22  John Axon  48  UK  Actor  24  Milton Katselas  75  USA  Director   26  Delmar Watson  82  USA  Actor  Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 27  Roy Stewart  83  UK  Actor   31  Jonathan Bates  68  UK  Supervising Sound Editor   31  John Daly  71  UK  Producer   November 1  Yma Sumac  85  Peru  Singer, Actress   5  Michael Crichton  66  USA  Writer, Director   5  Michael Higgins  88  USA  Actor   16  Reg Varney  92  UK  Actor   17  Ennio de Concini  84  Italy  Screenwriter   19  John Michael Hayes  89  USA  Screenwriter   20  June Vincent  89  USA  Actress   26  De'Angelo Wilson  29  USA  Actor   December 1  Paul Benedict  70  USA  Actor   1  James Bree  85  UK  Actor  On Her Majesty's Secret Service 5  Nina Foch  84  Netherlands–USA  Actress   5  Beverly Garland  82  USA  Actress   8  Robert Prosky  77  USA  Actor   8  Bob Spiers  63  UK  Director, Producer   11  Maddie Blaustein  48  USA  Actress   12  Van Johnson  92  USA  Actor   16  Sam Bottoms  53  USA  Actor, Producer, Soundtrack   16  Richard Coleman  78  France  Actor   18  Majel Barrett-Roddenberry  76  USA  Actress   18  John Costelloe  47  USA  Actor   18  Jack Douglas  81  UK  Actor   20  Robert Mulligan  83  USA  Director   24  Harold Pinter  78  UK  Writer, Actor, Director   25  Eartha Kitt  81  USA  Actress, Singer   25  Ann Savage  87  USA  Actress   27  Patricia Kneale  83  UK  Actress  A for Andromeda 30  Bernie Hamilton  80  USA  Actor   31  Brad Sullivan  77  USA  Actor   31  Donald E. Westlake  75  Mexico  Writer  

Movie debuts
 Chadwick Boseman – The Express
 Jessica Chastain – Jolene
 Felicity Jones – Flashbacks of a Fool
 Jennifer Lawrence – Garden Party
 Rooney Mara – Dream Boy
 Margot Robbie – Vigilante

Sources
 2008 release schedule at Box Office Mojo

References

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