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Movie history events from 2012
Burt Wonderstone and Anton Marvelton separate and then reunite to perfect a trick called "The Disappearing Audience" and beat Steve Gray. (Las Vegas, Nevada) (The Incredible Burt Wonderstone)
Oskar Rozario is dies. (New York City, New York) (Kick-Ass 2)
Anna Brady starts dating Jeremy Sloane. (Leap Year)
Mike Pomeroy's contract expires. (New York City) (Morning Glory)
Keller Dover uses lye to bury the family dog. (Conyer, Pennsylvania) (Prisoners)
Nico Tandy has been a boxing champion for three years. (Real Steel)
Retired CIA agent Frank Moses protects Sarah Ross as they are hunted by a hit squad. (Red)
Quinn meets Eddie (Reign of Fire)
Ted gets a job at a grocery store. (Boston, Massachusetts) (Ted 2)
Todd Peterson meets Jamie Martin. (That's My Boy)
A neighborhood watch is formed and encounters aliens. (Glenview, Ohio) (The Watch)
Giraffes are added to the zoo. (Los Angeles, California) (We Bought a Zoo)
Rogue and Wolverine meet the X-Men and battle Magneto's Brotherhood of Mutants. (X-Men)
Nightcrawler helps the X-Men stop William Stryker and Dark Cerebro. Jean Grey dies. (X-Men 2)
The CIA and Homeland Mutant Response Division release previously classified documents stating that the Cuban Missile Crisis was in fact orchestrated by a mutant and former Nazi named Sebastian Shaw. (X-Men: Days of Future Past)
Clarice Ferguson, Blink, is instrumental in smuggling 30 detained mutants out of Trask prison camps. (X-Men: Days of Future Past)
Sunday 1st January: The new year begins at midnight. (New York City) (New Year's Eve)
February: Paulie Dies (Philadelphia) (Rocky Balboa)
February: Gargamel enjoys being a celebrity. (Paris, France) (The Smurfs 2)
Sunday 5th February: Doris Florence Binns dies. (New York City, New York) (Kick-Ass 2)
Sunday 12th February: Linda Petersen's medicine expires. (New York, New York) (Seeking a Friend for the End of the World)
Tuesday 14th February: Amy writes in her diary that she considered buying a gun for Valentine's Day. (Missouri) (Gone Girl)
Tuesday 21st February: Annie-Claude Tremblay's driver's license expires. (Illinois) (Source Code)
Wednesday 22nd February: A radio broadcast reveals that the attempt to destroy the asteroid Matilda failed. Linda leaves her husband Dodge Petersen. (New York, New York) (Seeking a Friend for the End of the World)
Thursday 23rd February: Elsa cleans Dodge's apartment. (New York, New York) (Seeking a Friend for the End of the World)
Friday 24th February: Dodge wakes up with spider bites on his face. On his way to work, a suicidal man lands on his car. (New York, New York) (Seeking a Friend for the End of the World)
Thursday 1st March: Dodge attends a party with Warren and Diane. Diane kisses Dodge. Dodge later meets Penny, who falls asleep in his apartment. (New York, New York) (Seeking a Friend for the End of the World)
Friday 2nd March: Penny awakens and goes back to her place. Dodge drinks and passes out in the park. (New York, New York) (Seeking a Friend for the End of the World)
Saturday 3rd March: Dodge awakens in the park with a dog tied to him. When a riot takes place, he warns Penny and Owen, and the four of them run off. Owen is left behind. (New York, New York) (Seeking a Friend for the End of the World)
Sunday 4th March: Dodge and Penny get a ride from a trucker who hires an assassin to have himself killed. Dodge and Penny bury him and go to Friendsy's. The two of them have sex at night and later get arrested. (New Jersey) (Seeking a Friend for the End of the World)
Monday 5th March: Dodge and Penny meet with Penny's ex-boyfriend Lance Corporal James Speck. (Seeking a Friend for the End of the World)
Tuesday 6th March: Dodge and Penny meet with Dodge's father, Frank, and bond. When Penny falls asleep, Dodge puts her in the plane which his father pilots. (Somerset, New Jersey) (Seeking a Friend for the End of the World)
Thursday 8th March: Dodge returns home and sees that Elsa is still cleaning his apartment. (New York, New York) (Seeking a Friend for the End of the World)
Saturday 10th March: Dodge watches the final CGS news broadcast, which reveals that Matilda will be arriving earlier than expected. Penny returns. (New York, New York) (Seeking a Friend for the End of the World)
Sunday 11th March: A man named Carlos M. posts a comment on the Class of '99 Reunion Facebook page. (American Reunion)
Sunday 11th March: Dodge and Penny die in bed together as the asteroid Matilda kills everyone on Earth. (New York, New York) (Seeking a Friend for the End of the World)
Thursday 15th March: The original prediction for the end of the world. (Seeking a Friend for the End of the World)
Sunday 25th March: Jessica Jackson posts a comment on the Class of '99 Reunion Facebook page. (American Reunion)
Monday 26th March: Michael Reed posts a comment on the Class of '99 Facebook page. (American Reunion)
Thursday 29th March: Kevin Meyers posts a comment on the Class of '99 Reunion Facebook page saying that he will be there. (American Reunion)
Friday 30th March: A date on Jack McClane's file. (A Good Day to Die Hard)
April: Captain George Stacy starts a sting operation to find criminal hideouts. (New York City) (The Amazing Spider-Man)
April: News is posted online about Dr. Curt Connors. (New York City, New York) (The Amazing Spider-Man)
April: Nick bumps Amy's life insurance up to $1.2 million. (Missouri) (Gone Girl)
Sunday 1st April: Samantha posts a comment on the Class of '99 Reunion Facebook page asking about Todd Ellis, who replies. (American Reunion)
Thursday 5th April: Jim Levenstein tries masturbating to a porn site, but his son Evan interrupts him. Jim sees his wife Michelle using a showerhead to masturbate in the bathtub. (American Reunion)
Friday 6th April: Jim, Michelle, and Evan arrive at Jim's dad's house. Jim meets up with Kevin Meyers, Chris Ostreiker, and Paul Finch at a bar where they meet Selena Vega and bump into Steve Stifler. (East Great Falls, Michigan) (American Reunion)
Saturday 7th April: Kara gets drunk during her 18th birthday party at the beach and tries to have sex with Jim. Jim tries sneaking her into her house without her parents noticing. (East Great Falls, Michigan) (American Reunion)
Sunday 8th April: AJ sees Kara trying to sleep with Jim at Stifler's party and starts a fight that results in Finch getting arrested for stealing his boss' motorcycle. (East Great Falls, Michigan) (American Reunion)
Monday 9th April: Class of '99 reunion. Jessica arrives with her girlfriend. Kevin introduces Vicky Lathum to his wife Ellie. Oz ends up with Heather. Jim and Michelle have sex in a room full of instruments, where they are seen by Nadia and her boyfriend. Finch ends up with Selena. Stifler sets up divorced Chuck Sherman with Loni Lipstein and has sex with Finch's mom Rachel while John and Justin shout "MILF!" (East Great Falls, Michigan) (American Reunion)
Monday 9th April: An article titled "Joey Cassidy Named as Consultant for Top Security Firm" is published. (Brooklyn, NY) (Man on a Ledge)
Tuesday 10th April: Jim resolves the issues between him and Kara and hangs out with his friends at Dog Years. Stifler's mom gives Jim's dad a blowjob at a movie theater. (East Great Falls, Michigan) (American Reunion)
Saturday 21st April: Maximilien Dion's driver's license expires. (Iowa) (Source Code)
May: Morton Schmidt and Greg Jenko, new members of a revised specialty division at 21 Jump Street, go undercover at Sagan High School and make their first arrest on prom night following the deaths of DEA members Tom Hanson and Doug Penhall, who used to work at 21 Jump Street. (21 Jump Street)
May: Peter Parker discovers his father's papers and learns that he worked with Dr. Curt Connors. (New York City, New York) (The Amazing Spider-Man)
May: After Victor "Vector" Perkins steals an Egyptian pyramid, supervillain Gru comes up with a plan to steal the Moon and adopts three orphaned girls. (Despicable Me)
May: Lou Dorchen appears on a magazine. (Hot Tub Time Machine 2)
Wednesday 2nd May: A date marked on a calendar in the Parker kitchen. (New York City, New York) (The Amazing Spider-Man)
Saturday 5th May: Gru presents to his minions his idea to steal the moon. (Despicable Me)
Wednesday 9th May: A date marked on a calendar in the Parker kitchen. (New York City, New York) (The Amazing Spider-Man)
Friday 11th May: A date marked on a calendar in the Parker kitchen. (New York City, New York) (The Amazing Spider-Man)
Saturday 12th May: Gru is denied a loan from the bank. (Despicable Me)
Sunday 13th May: Gru adopts Agnes, Edith, and Margo to help him get into Vector's house. (Despicable Me)
Monday 14th May: A date marked on a calendar in the Parker kitchen. (New York City, New York) (The Amazing Spider-Man)
Monday 14th May: Gru steals Vector's shrink ray and takes Agnes, Edith, and Margo to an amusement park. (Despicable Me)
Tuesday 15th May: The police discover Charlie Sheen's corpse and arrest Lindsay Lohan. (Scary Movie 5)
Saturday 19th May: One week before the Swan Lake recital. (Despicable Me)
Wednesday 23rd May: Charlie Sheen's corpse stops partying. (Scary Movie 5)
Thursday 24th May: Tania's birthday. (New York City, New York) (The Amazing Spider-Man)
Saturday 26th May: Gru shrinks the Moon and misses the Swan Lake recital but saves Margo, Edith, and Agnes from Vector. (Despicable Me)
Monday 28th May: A date marked on a calendar in the Parker kitchen. (New York City, New York) (The Amazing Spider-Man)
June: Peter Parker is bitten by a radioactive spider at Oscorp. (New York City, New York) (The Amazing Spider-Man)
June: During the circus' tour of America, the animals decide that they do not want to stay at the Central Park Zoo and join the circus permanently. Dubois and her men are shipped to Madagascar. (New York City, New York) (Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted)
June: John Bennett and Lori Collins celebrate their 4th anniversary. (Boston, Massachusetts) (Ted)
June: Verna Sawyer-Carson gets sick. She shows her grandson Jedediah "Jed" Sawyer, also known as Leatherface, to her lawyer, Farnsworth. (Newt, Texas) (Texas Chainsaw 3D)
June: Duncan reluctantly goes on summer vacation to a beach house his mother Pam, her boyfriend Trent and Trent's daughter Steph. He gets a job at Water Wizz. (Cape Cod, Massachusetts) (The Way Way Back)
Thursday 28th June: Alex Hopper tells Sam Shane that he will tells her father that he wants to marry her. (Hawaii) (Battleship)
Friday 29th June: Aliens land during RIMPAC. (Hawaii) (Battleship)
Saturday 30th June: The aliens are defeated. (Hawaii) (Battleship)
July: Clive Gollings and Graeme Willy promote their new hit novel Paul at Comic-Con. (San Diego, CA) (Paul)
July: Duncan passes Owen on the waterslide. (Cape Cod, Massachusetts) (The Way Way Back)
Sunday 1st July: John Bennett tries winning back Lori Collins at a Norah Jones concert. (Boston, Massachusetts) (Ted)
Tuesday 3rd July: Amy writes about her pregnancy. (Missouri) (Gone Girl)
Wednesday 4th July: Duncan sees Trent kissing Joan. Susanna hangs out with Duncan. (Cape Cod, Massachusetts) (The Way Way Back)
Thursday 5th July: Amy Dunne disappears. (Gone Girl)
Friday 6th July: Nick Dunne holds a press conference concerning the disappearance of his wife Anne. (Gone Girl)
Saturday 7th July: Shawna Kelly takes a picture of herself with Nick Dunne. This photo gains media attention. (Gone Girl)
Sunday 8th July: Nick Dunne holds a press conference concerning the disappearance of his wife Anne. (Gone Girl)
Sunday 8th July: Andie Fitzgerald leaves after having sex with Nick, whose sister Margo confronts him about the affair. That night, a vigil and press conference are held. (Missouri) (Gone Girl)
Monday 9th July: Nick speaks to attorney Tanner Bolt. (Missouri) (Gone Girl)
Tuesday 10th July: Tanner Bolt meets with Nick and Margo about Amy's deception. (Missouri) (Gone Girl)
Wednesday 11th July: Tanner wants Nick to go on live television. Amy leaves Jeff and Greta. (Gone Girl)
Tuesday 24th July: Amy tells ex-boyfriend Desi Collings that she wants to hide from Nick. He allows her to stay over. (Gone Girl)
Wednesday 25th July: Nick confesses his unfaithfulness on live television but asserts that he is not a murderer. Amy and Desi watch the broadcast. Detective Rhonda Boney gets an arrest warrant and searches Nick's shed. (Gone Girl)
Thursday 26th July: Nick is released from jail. Amy decides to kill Desi and frame him. (Gone Girl)
Saturday 28th July: California sinks into the Pacific; Yellowstone erupts; panic ensues when the Olympics are cancelled (worldwide) (2012)
Sunday 29th July: Cam Brady's Job Approval Poll increases. (The Campaign)
August: Norman Babcock ends the Prenderghast curse. (Blithe Hollows) (ParaNorman)
Saturday 4th August: Amy returns home covered in blood and claims that she fought Desi in self defense. (Missouri) (Gone Girl)
Sunday 5th August: Cam Brady makes inspirational speeches as his Job Approval Poll increases. (The Campaign)
Sunday 5th August: Nick tells Amy that he knows that she murdered Desi. (Missouri) (Gone Girl)
Thursday 9th August: Tanner Bolt says that his work with Nick is done. (Gone Girl)
Sunday 12th August: Cam Brady's Job Approval Poll increases. (The Campaign)
Sunday 19th August: Cam Brady's Job Approval Poll is 62% before he makes an inappropriate phone call. (The Campaign)
Tuesday 21st August: Martin John Harris' drivers license expires. (Weare, New Hampshire) (Unknown)
Sunday 26th August: Cam Brady's Job Approval Poll is 46%. (The Campaign)
September: Peter Parker lets a man rob a store. The man shoots Ben Parker to death. (New York City, New York) (The Amazing Spider-Man)
September: Colin Tucker turns 21. (Johnny English Reborn)
Saturday 8th September: Amy has been home for five weeks. (Missouri) (Gone Girl)
Sunday 9th September: Amy tucks Nick in bed. (Gone Girl)
Sunday 9th September: Robert Neville tries hunting a deer, but it is taken by a family of lions. (New York City, New York) (I Am Legend)
Monday 10th September: Robert Neville's dog Sam gets infected by Darkseekers. He kills her as she becomes vampiric. (New York City, New York) (I Am Legend)
Tuesday 11th September: Robert Neville buries his dog Sam and risks his life trying to kill Darkseekers. (New York City, New York) (I Am Legend)
Wednesday 12th September: At 8:49 A.M., Robert Neville discovers a cure. At 8:52 A.M., he gives his life defending it. Anna Montez and her son Ethan drive to Vermont with the cure. (New York City, New York) (I Am Legend)
Monday 17th September: Melvin Downing's driver's license expires. (Illinois) (Source Code)
Tuesday 18th September: At the Pine Crest Country Club, Cam Brady presents embarrassing photos chronicling Marty Huggins' life. (Pine Crest, North Carolina) (The Campaign)
Friday 21st September: Jack McClane is arrested. (Moscow, Russia) (A Good Day to Die Hard)
Sunday 23rd September: Nick argues with Amy, who does not regret what she did for him. They decide to stay together for the sake of the child she impregnated herself with using Nick's semen. (Missouri) (Gone Girl)
Saturday 29th September: Verna Sawyer-Carson dies. (Newt, Texas) (Texas Chainsaw 3D)
Saturday 29th September: Verna Sawyer-Carson dies. (Newt, Texas) (Texas Chainsaw 3D)
Tuesday 2nd October: Marty Huggins wins in the Congressional Debate against Cam Brady, who accidentally punches a baby. (The Campaign)
Wednesday 3rd October: News channels cover the story of Brady punching a baby. Brady's team makes new ads for him. (The Campaign)
Tuesday 9th October: Another debate takes place, with Huggins coming out on top again. (The Campaign)
Thursday 11th October: Dr. Curtis Connors grows his arm back, but he also becomes Lizard. Peter Parker has dinner with Gwen Stacy's family and reveals to her that he is Spider-Man. Lizard attacks cars on a bridge and Spider-Man saves a kid. (New York City) (The Amazing Spider-Man)
Thursday 11th October: Weyland Corporation is recognized as a legal entity and corporation under United States law and receives their Certificate of Incorporation from the Companies House in the United Kingdom. Due to the combined value of Sir Peter Weyland (Prometheus)
Friday 12th October: Peter Parker finds out that Dr. Connors is Lizard. He fights him in the sewers and visits Gwen at night. (New York City) (The Amazing Spider-Man)
Monday 15th October: Lizard attacks Midtown Science High School. Spider-Man and Gwen Stacy stop him from turning citizens into reptilians and instead release and antidote in the air that cures infected citizens and Dr. Connors. Captain George Stacy, fatally wounded by Lizard, asks Peter to promise him that he will stay away from his daughter. (New York City) (The Amazing Spider-Man)
Tuesday 16th October: George Stacy's funeral. Peter tells Gwen that he cannot see her anymore. (New York City) (The Amazing Spider-Man)
Wednesday 17th October: Peter Parker shows up late to class and hints that he may keep seeing Gwen. (New York City) (The Amazing Spider-Man)
Friday 19th October: Congressman Cam Brady steals the car of the policeman that pulls him over for driving drunk. Brady then crashes the car into a cow. Political opponent Marty Huggins notified the police of Brady driving drunk after he finished drinking at his home. (Hammond, North Carolina ) (The Campaign)
Saturday 20th October: Mitch Wilson picks up Cam Brady from the police station. (Pine Crest, North Carolina) (The Campaign)
Saturday 20th October: Around this time, Heather Miller receives a letter informing her that her biological grandmother, Verna Sawyer-Carson, died three weeks earlier. (Texas Chainsaw 3D)
Tuesday 23rd October: Huggins reads Brady's story of Rainbow Land, which angers the audience. (The Campaign)
Saturday 27th October: Marty Huggins offers to be a father figure to Cam Brady's son. This is filmed for a campaign ad. (Pine Crest, North Carolina) (The Campaign)
Monday 29th October: Spider-Man swings through the city. (New York City, New York) (The Amazing Spider-Man)
Tuesday 30th October: Against her foster parents' wishes, Heather decides to drive to her grandmother's home in Newt, Texas. She is accompanied by her boyfriend Ryan and her friends Nikki and Kenny. They pick up a hitch-hiker named Darryl at a gas station along the way. (Texas Chainsaw 3D)
Wednesday 31st October: Heather and her friends arrive at Verna's mansion. Leatherface kills the thief Darryl, Kenny, and Ryan. Mayor Hartman sends Officer Marvin to the house. Marvin accidentally shoots Nikki to death and is killed by Leatherface. Burt's son, Deputy Carl Hartman, ties Heather up in a slaughterhouse, but Leatherface frees her when he finds out that she is his cousin. When Heather hears Leatherface being beaten, she helps him by giving him his chainsaw and by killing Officer Ollie with a pitchfork. Sheriff Hooper lets Leatherface put Burt in the meat grinder. Heather and Leatherface go home, where Heather reads a letter from Verna saying that Jedidiah Sawyer will protect her. (Newt, Texas) (Texas Chainsaw 3D)
November: Caesar is able to sign twenty words. (San Francisco, CA) (Rise of the Planet of the Apes)
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November: License plate 42Q-W69 expires. (Massachusetts) (The Way Way Back)
Tuesday 6th November: The United States elects a female president. (Back to the Future Part II)
Tuesday 6th November: Marty Huggins tells the truth on Election Day. (The Campaign)
Tuesday 6th November: Marty Huggins tells the truth on Election Day. (The Campaign)
Wednesday 7th November: Cam Brady wins by 10,000 votes but ultimately lets Marty Huggins win and become congressman. (The Campaign)
Monday 26th November: Pete uses viagra to have sex with Debbie in the shower. (Los Angeles, California) (This Is 40)
Tuesday 27th November: Graham Parker & The Rumour perform. (Los Angeles, California) (This Is 40)
Wednesday 28th November: Graham Parker is interviewed by the Jewish Journal. (Los Angeles, California) (This Is 40)
Thursday 29th November: Pete and Debbie see doctors. (Los Angeles, California) (This Is 40)
Friday 30th November: Debbie tries giving Pete a blowjob but is interrupted by the yells of their daughters. Pete talks to his father Larry about his financial problems. Debbie meets her father Oliver at a restaurant. Debbie and Pete tell their daughters that they plan on eating healthier and taking away the Wi-fi. (Los Angeles, California) (This Is 40)
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Saturday 1st December: Pete talks to his father Larry about his financial problems. Debbie meets with her father Oliver at a restaurant. (Los Angeles, California) (This Is 40)
Sunday 2nd December: Pete and Debbie go to a resort. (Los Angeles, California) (This Is 40)
Sunday 2nd December: At 10:32 PM, a post titled DO NOT ANSWER MESSAGES FROM THE DEAD.... is posted by an unregistered user to Unexplained Forums.net (Unfriended)
Monday 3rd December: Pete and Debbie return home and find Charlotte crying because of her ear infection. (Los Angeles, California) (This Is 40)
Monday 3rd December: At 12:00 PM, mosspeat12 replies to the Unexplained Forums post (Unfriended)
Tuesday 4th December: Debbie sees that Pete has a hemroid. (Los Angeles, California) (This Is 40)
Wednesday 5th December: Sadie's electronic devices are taken away. Ronnie tells Pete over the phone that only 612 copies of the new album by The Rumour. (Los Angeles, California) (This Is 40)
Thursday 6th December: Debbie finds out that she is pregnant and yells at Joseph. Billie Joe Armstrong attends The Rumour concert. Pete wishes there were more people. (Los Angeles, California) (This Is 40)
Friday 7th December: Debbie tries to have sex with Pete, who is not in the mood. Sadie says that Charlotte is gross. Charlotte writes an apology. (Los Angeles, California) (This Is 40)
Saturday 8th December: Pete yells at Joseph's mother Catherine. Debbie finds out that Jodi had been stealing from the store. Pete, Debbie, and Catherine meet with Jill, the principal. (Los Angeles, California) (This Is 40)
Sunday 9th December: Pete's birthday party. Pete gets injured while riding his bike. He and Debbie go to a Ryan Adams concert. (Los Angeles, California) (This Is 40)
Wednesday 12th December: At 6:31 PM, Sally replies to the Unexplained Forums post (Unfriended)
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Friday 21st December: The world comes to an end based on the Mayan calender. (Worldwide) (2012)
Friday 21st December: Human civilization is devastated by multiple natural disasters, but a small portion of the population escapes in Government-provided "arcs". (Worldwide) (2012)
Friday 21st December: Tony Stark tests the Mark 42 Iron Man suit. (Malibu, California) (Iron Man 3)
Friday 21st December: At 12:09 PM, an unregistered user replies to the Unexplained Forums post (Unfriended)
Saturday 22nd December: Pepper Potts arrives at Tony Stark's home. Happy Hogan is injured after a participant in the Extremis project explodes. (Malibu, California) (Iron Man 3)
Sunday 23rd December: Tony Stark's home in Malibu is attacked and he is presumed dead. His suit takes him to Tennessee, where he meets Harley. (Iron Man 3)
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Monday 24th December: Tony Stark discovers that the Mandarin that has been broadcasted on TV is just an actor named Trevor Slattery. Colonel James Rhodes saves President Ellis. Pepper Potts, having gone through the Extremis experiment, uses her powers to kill Aldrich Killian. Stark blows up his suits. (Miami, Florida) (Iron Man 3)
Tuesday 25th December: Arthur Claus is the new Santa Claus. (Arthur Christmas)
Tuesday 25th December: Pepper Potts gets treatment to cure her from side-effects of the Extremis experiment. Tony Stark gets the shrapnel in his chest removed. (Iron Man 3)