The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Movie history events from 1997
Austin Powers is defrosted. (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery)
Adam Webber leaves his family’s shelter for the first time. (Blast from the Past)
Serial killer Carl Stargher buys an albino German Shepherd pup, licenses it & names him Valentine. (Woodcrest, Ca.) (The Cell)
Dante's Peak erupts. (Washington) (Dante's Peak)
A massive explosion in the Lincoln Tunnel traps a group of survivors inside, led out by taxi driver Kip Litora. (New York) (Daylight)
Narrowly avoiding the twin towers, the US President's plane crash-lands in Manhattan, now a top-security prison. (New York) (Escape From New York)
Brad and Caroline Sexton hide from the IRS in an Amish community. (For Richer or Poorer)
Don Michael Corleone dies. (The Godfather: Part III)
Agents J and K foil an intergalactic plot and prevent the destruction of the Earth. (Men in Black)
An alien hunter threatens the city. (Los Angeles) (Predator 2)
At her sister's wedding, Sarah Huttinger learns her family is the basis for the book 'The Graduate'. (California) (Rumor Has It)
Phillippe Neuville is killed. (Tell No One)
Margot Beck is seemingly murdered by a serial killer. (Tell No One)
Sarah Connor dies from leukemia. Her ashes are tossed at sea. (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines)
Evey's political activist parents are killed. (V for Vendetta)
A volcano erupts. (Los Angeles) (Volcano)
Ben Cappadora Ned Devine wins £6,894,620 on the lottery, and dies from the shock. (Chicago, IL) (Waking Ned)
Sunday 23rd February: Scientists clone a sheep named Dolly. (The 6th Day)
April: Holden McNeil prints a run of his personal comic Chasing Amy. (Chasing Amy)
Thursday 10th April: HMS Devonshire is sunk of the coast of China. The British claim the ship was in international waters, while the Chinese say it had strayed into their territory. (South China Sea) (Tomorrow Never Dies)
Friday 11th April: Machine-gunned bodies of 17 British sailors are recovered by Vietnamese Government. Ballistic reports show that the ammunition used is the same as that used by the Chinese military. (Vietnam) (Tomorrow Never Dies)
Friday 11th April: Machine-gunned bodies of 17 British sailors are recovered by Vietnamese Government. Ballistic reports show that the ammunition used is the same as that used by the Chinese military. (Vietnam) (Tomorrow Never Dies)
Friday 11th April: The Carver Global Satellite Network is launched, but a curious power outage interrupts Elliot Carver's inaugural broadcast in mid-speech. (Hamburg, Germany) (Tomorrow Never Dies)
Saturday 12th April: The body Paris Carver, wife of media mogul Elliot Carver, is found in a hotel room with the body of an unidentified man. (Hamburg, Germany) (Tomorrow Never Dies)
Sunday 13th April: War between the Chinese and British is averted by a joint covert op between MI6 & Chinese secret service exposes the existence of a "stealth ship," which had been playing both sides against the other. (South China Sea) (Tomorrow Never Dies)
Monday 14th April: MI6 releases statement to the press stating that Elliot Carver died while on a cruise on his yacht in the South China Sea - authorities believe his death to be a suicide. (London, England) (Tomorrow Never Dies)
Sunday 27th April: Andrew Cunanan begins his killing spree. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) (The Versace Murder)
May: Banky Edwards and Alyssa Jones are guests at a New York comic con, where they are reunited with Holden McNeil. (Chasing Amy)
Tuesday 15th July: Gianni Versace murdered in Cunanan killing spree. (Miami, Florida) (The Versace Murder)
Monday 4th August: Skynet goes online. (The Terminator)
Saturday 16th August: Telli Hays is trapped in a research center at Saint Haley Mill's University and is forced to listen to country music no stop. Turning her into Two-Step Telli. (Pleasant Storm, Iowa) (Bradman)
Friday 29th August: Machines destroy the Earth, or they don’t. (Terminator 2: Judgment Day)
Friday 29th August: Judgement Day- 3 billion people die as a result of Skynet's artificial intelligence (Terminator 2: Judgment Day)
Friday 29th August: Skynet becomes self-aware, and destroys human civilisation. (The Terminator)
Friday 10th October: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans and encounter human excavation group which destorys the pyramid. (Bouvet Island, Antarctica) (Alien Vs. Predator)
Thursday 6th November: John Donaghy, father of Amelia Donaghy, commits suicide. Amelia is the first person to find his body. (New York City) (The Bone Collector)