The Movie Timeline - here's looking at movies, kid
July: Max Cady begins serving a fourteen-year prison sentence for rape. (Cape Fear)
July: Summer of Sam. (Summer of Sam)
Saturday 2nd July: The Tsimtsum sinks. Pi gets into a lifeboat and acquires company. (Pacific Ocean - Life of Pi)
Sunday 31st July: David Berkowitz attacks Stacy Moskowitz and Bobby Violante. Violante survives but Moskowitz dies in the hospital a day and a half later. Berkowitz parks in front of a fire hydrant and receives a parking ticket. (Summer of Sam)
Wednesday 3rd August: James Bond (007) and Anya Amasova (Triple X) encounter Jaws and infiltrate Club Mujaba. (Egypt - The Spy Who Loved Me)
Thursday 4th August: Dr. Robert Neville watches Woodstock at a movie theater and shoots a few mutants from "The Family". (Los Angeles, California - The Omega Man)
Thursday 4th August: James Bond and Anya Amasova escape from Jaws. (The Spy Who Loved Me)
Friday 5th August: On August 5, 1977 Dr Robert Neville discovers he is not (Los Angeles, California - The Omega Man)
Friday 5th August: Dr Robert Neville discovers he is not the last man on Earth. (Los Angeles, California - The Omega Man)
Friday 5th August: Karl Stromberg's hideout, Atlantis, is blown up. Jaws escapes. James Bond and Anya Amasova make love in an escape pod and are seen by their superiors. (The Spy Who Loved Me)
Saturday 6th August: Robert Neville meets young people who survived the plague and promises to cure Lisa's teenage brother Richie. Robert and Lisa keeps mutants away and then they have sex. (Los Angeles, California - The Omega Man)
Wednesday 10th August: 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz is arrested and charged with being the "Son of Sam". (Summer of Sam)
Tuesday 16th August: Elvis Presley dies. (Memphis, Tennessee - Elvis)
Tuesday 16th August: Elvis Aaron Presley dies. (Memphis, Tennessee - This is Spinal Tap)
Thursday 18th August: Groucho Marx dies of pneumonia. (Los Angeles, California - Sinatra)
Sunday 4th September: At a fan-packed performance at the nightclub The Masque, Darby Crash, lead singer of the punk band The Germs, deliberately cuts his bare chest with a knife onstage. (Hollywood, California - What We Do Is Secret)
Monday 12th September: Steven Biko, leader of South Africa's "Black Consciousness Movement," dies of severe head trauma on the stone floor of a prison cell. (Pretoria, South Africa - Cry Freedom)
Friday 16th September: Maria Callas dies. (Paris, France - Callas Forever)
Thursday 6th October: Danny Greene is killed by a car bomb. (Cleveland, OH - Kill The Irishman)
November: Harvey Milk becomes the first openly gay man to be elected to a Californian public office. (San Francisco, California - Milk)
Friday 11th November: Elise Sallas is born. (The Adjustment Bureau)
December: William Turner has sex with Tank's aunt Francie. (Boston, Massachusetts - My Best Friend's Girl)
Sunday 25th December: Charlie Chaplin dies. (Vevey, Switzerland - Chaplin)
Gambling legalised in Atlantic City. (Atlantic City - Atlantic City)
Randy Daytona's mom dies. (Balls of Fury)
Kenneth J Kitsom is born. (Reno, Nevada - The Bourne Legacy)
Jack Twist meets lover-to-be, Randall Malone. (Childress, Texas. - Brokeback Mountain)
Helen Sharp takes her fiance, Dr Ernest Menville, to see Madeline Ashton perform; Madeline ends up stealing him away from her. (Broadway - Death Becomes Her)
Debbie does Dallas. (Dallas, Texas - Debbie Does Dallas)
Local and county police engage in a large gun battle with the murderous Firefly family. (Texas - The Devil's Rejects)
Donnie Brasco. (Donnie Brasco)
A young Eskimo boy (Poochook) accidentally gets hit by a mysterious ray during a secret British experiment at the North Pole and finds that he is now electrified. (North Pole - Electric Eskimo)
Lorna does not think having sex with men without having a relationship will stop her from doing anything. (New York City - Friends with Benefits)
Michael Corleone's investiture. (New York - The Godfather: Part III)
Five childhood friends win their junior high basketball championship. During the celebration, their coach "Buzzer" encourages them to live their lives in a similar way to how they played the game. (New England - Grown Ups)
The year on a banner at Stanton High. (Connecticut - Grown Ups 2)
Jill Metzner is born. (Snowmonton - Jack Frost)
Two highschool sweethearts go missing. Their bodies were never found. We later find out that the Creepers took them. (USA - Jeepers Creepers)
Maurice Pitka starts training under Guru Tugginmypudha to become a love guru. (India - The Love Guru)
Taxi begins on US TV. (Man on the Moon)
FBI agent and criminal profiler Will Graham comes out of retirement to hunt an elusive serial killer, enlisting the help of Hannibal Lecktor. (Manhunter)
Django leaves the New Age movement. (United States - The Men Who Stare at Goats)
Bill James makes a mathematical platform for baseball. (Moneyball)
Tom's father tells him via radio that he is in New Guinea. (New York City - Mr. Popper's Penguins)
Tom's father tells him via radio that he is in New Guinea. (New York City - Mr. Popper's Penguins)
Kathy H, Tommy D and Ruth study at Hailsham, a school/institution they are not allowed to leave. (Hailsham School, UK - Never Let Me Go)
Another zombie outbreak takes place. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - Night of the Living Dead 3D)
Apollo Creed thinks about having another boxing match with Rocky in a gym. (Rocky III)
Jim Court tries taking his daughter Diane on a flight to Los Angeles. She screams and they are not allowed to fly. Diane's scream is later recorded for commercials. (Seattle, Washington - Say Anything...)
Steven Orth is born. (Woodsboro, CA - Scream)
Survivors of the Alliance/NEB war face a newly self-evolved AI that wishes to end human existence. (Screamers)
A car salesman does not help Louis Dainard with financing. (Lillian, Ohio - Super 8)
Superman appears for the first time. (Metropolis - Superman)
A meteorite containing Kryptonite found in a mine in Ethiopia. It's named 'Addis Ababa L9 Pallasite Meteorite'. (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Superman Returns)
Rick Masters is in prison for armed robbery. (Los Angeles, California - To Live and Die in LA)
Thomas "Mickey" Macray begins serving the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. (Boston, Massachusetts - The Town)
1978 Gyoza truck later used by Pizza Planet and driven by toys is made. (Toy Story 2)
3801 La Salle Ave is built. (Los Angeles, California - We Bought a Zoo)
January: The funeral of Olympic athlete Harold Abrahams. (London - Chariots of Fire)
January: Marjane Satrapi decides to become a prophet. The Iranian Revolution begins. (Teheran, Iran - Persepolis)