This article is about the film in the year 2006. Well-known films from 2006 are the second part from the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, the film adaptation of The Da Vinci Code , the animation movies Ice Age 2: The Meltdown and Cars, the new James Bond Casino Royale and the third X-Men-share .
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Events[Edit][]
- January 2006-There is an arrest warrant for actress Natasha Lyonne. She's been a no-show in court several times for a variety of items.
- december 2006-a total of 22.5 million times in Netherlands is visiting the cinema brought this year. After years of strong wrapping is this an increase of 9% compared with 2005.
Top grossing films[Edit][]
The ten films from 2006 that yielded the most. A total of seven films brought more than 400.000.000 dollars on.
| Place | Name | Studio | Yield | |||
| International | Us/Canada | United Kingdom | Australia | |||
| 1 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead man's Chest | Walt Disney Pictures | $ 1.065.659.812 | $ 423.315.812 | £ 52 m | $ 36.271.740 |
| 2 | The Da Vinci Code | Columbia Pictures | $ 758.239.851 | $ 217.536.138 | £ 30 m | $ 26.086.109 |
| 3 | Ice Age 2: The Meltdown | 20th Century Fox | $ 651.564.512 | $ 195.330.621 | £ 29 m | $ 22.868.309 |
| 4 | Casino Royale | MGM / Columbia | $ 594.239.066 | $ 167.445.960 | £ 55 m | $ 27.986.845 |
| 5 | Night at the Museum | 20th Century Fox | $ 571.824.416 | $ 250.603.633 | £ 20 m | $ 17.143.797 |
| 6 | Cars | Walt Disney Pictures / Pixar | $ 461.981.126 | $ 244.082.982 | £ 16 m | $ 17.132.075 |
| 7 | X-Men: The Last Stand | 20th Century Fox | $ 459.256.008 | $ 234.362.462 | £ 19 m | $ 16.000.390 |
| 8 | Mission: Impossible III | Paramount Pictures | $ 397.850.210 | $ 134.029.801 | £ 15 m | $ 10.758.757 |
| 9 | Superman Returns | Warner Bros. | $ 391.081.192 | $ 200.081.192 | £ 16 m | $ 13.830.282 |
| 10 | Happy Feet | Warner Bros. | $ 384.135.421 | $ 198.000.317 | £ 18 m | $ 24.327.147 |
Prices[Edit][]
- Best Film: The Departed from producer Graham King
- Best Director: Martin Scorsese with The Departed
- Best actor: Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland
- Best actress: Helen Mirren in The Queen
- Best supporting actor: Alan Arkin in Little Miss Sunshine
- Best supporting actress: Jennifer Hudson in Dreamgirls
- Best Foreign Film: The Lives of Others from Germany
- Best animated feature: Happy Feet from producer George Miller
- Drama:
- Best Film: Babel
- Best actor: Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland
- Best actress: Helen Mirren in The Queen
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Film: Dreamgirls
- Best actor: Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
- Best actress: Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada
- Other
- Best Director: Martin Scorsese with The Departed
- Best Foreign Film: Letters from Iwo Jima by Clint Eastwood
- Best Film: The Queen
- Best Actor: Phillipe Seymour Hoffman
- Best Actress: Reese Witherspoon
Golden Palm (Cannes Film festival):
- The Wind That Shakes the Barley, directed by Ken Loach, Ireland/United Kingdom
Golden Lion (Venice Film festival):
- Sānxiá hǎorén (Still Life) directed by Jia Zhangke, China
Golden Bear (Berlin Film festival):
- Grbavica, directed by Jasmila Žbanić, Bosnia and Herzegovina
List of movies[Edit][]
- 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama
- 16 Blocks
- Apocalypto
- Basic Instinct 2
- The Black Dahlia
- Borat
- The Break-Up
- Brother Bear 2
- Cars
- Casino Royale
- Catch a Fire
- The Da Vinci Code
- The Departed
- The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift
- Final Destination 3
- Flushed Away
- The Fountain
- Ganglamedo
- Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
- The Grudge 2
- Happy Feet
- Hannibal Rising
- The hell of Tanger
- Das Leben Der Anderen
- The Hills Have Eyes
- The Host
- I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer
- Inside Man
- Karma
- The Knot
- Lady in the Water
- The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines
- Little Man
- Lucky Number Slevin
- Miami Vice
- Milarepa (film)
- Mission: Impossible III
- My Super Ex-Girlfriend
- Night at the Museum (U.S. premiere)
- Notte prima degli esami
- Nuovomondo
- The Omen 666
- The Pink Panther
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead man's Chest
- Plop in the city
- Poseidon
- Prince of the Himalayas
- Refuge
- Rob-B-Hood
- Rocky Balboa
- Saw III
- Scary Movie 4
- La sconosciuta
- Silent Hill
- Stay Alive
- Step Up
- Stormbreaker
- Superman Returns
- United 93
- Vajra Sky Over Tibet
- Valley of Flowers
- X-Men: The Last Stand
- You, Me and Dupree
List of Dutch Films[Edit][]
- Stay Off
- Polka Dot Blues
- a Little in love with
- Don
- Dead End
- Island Guests
- Escort
- Horizonica
- I embrace you with 1000 arms
- Kilkenny Cross
- Crusade in jeans (aka Crusade in Jeans)
- Lulu
- Night Ride
- Waiter
- On Life & Enlightenment
- Touch
- The sportsman of the century
- Sl8n8 (aka night Slaughter)
- The chosen one
- Four Minutes
- Raging of the whole World
- Wild Romance
- The Silence
- Zoop in India
- Black Book
D.[Edit][]
| Date | Name | Age | Pursuits |
| January | |||
| 1 | Mapita Cortés | 75 | actress |
| 2 | Osa Massen | 91 | actress |
| 9 | Mavai Mikiver | 68 | actor |
| 14 | Henri Colpi | 84 | film processor |
| Shelley Winters | 85 | actress | |
| 19 | Anthony Franciosa | 77 | actor |
| 24 | Fayard Nicholas | 91 | tap dancer |
| Chris Penn | 40 | actor | |
| 31 | Moira Shearer | 80 | actress |
| February | |||
| 9 | Phil Brown | 89 | actor |
| 18 | Richard Bright | 68 | actor |
| 24 | Don Knotts | 81 | actor |
| Dennis Weaver | 81 | actor | |
| 25 | Darren McGavin | 83 | actor |
| March | |||
| 2 | Jack Wild | 53 | actor |
| 13 | Maureen Stapleton | 80 | actress |
| 25 | Richard Fleischer | 89 | Director |
| April | |||
| 11 | Shin Sang-ok | 79 | Director and producer |
| 22 | Alida Valli | 84 | actress |
| May | |||
| 5 | Naushad | 85 | composer |
| 10 | Val Guest | 94 | Director |
| 24 | Henry Bumstead | 91 | Art director |
| 27 | Paul Gleason | 62 | actor |
| 30 | Shohei Imamura | 79 | Director |
| June | |||
| 17 | Arthur Franz | 86 | actor |
| 18 | Vincent Sherman | 99 | Director |
| 21 | Mako | 72 | actor |
| 23 | Aaron Spelling | 83 | producer |
| 25 | Kenneth Griffith | 84 | actor and documentary maker |
| July | |||
| 8 | June Allyson | 88 | actress |
| 12 | Kurt Kreuger | 89 | actor |
| 13 | Red Buttons | 87 | actor and comedian |
| 19 | Jack Warden | 85 | actor |
| August | |||
| 13 | Tony Jay | 71 | voice actor actor |
| 14 | Bruno Kirby | 57 | actor |
| 25 | Joseph Stefano | 84 | screenwriter |
| 27 | Hrishikesh Mukherjee | 83 | Director |
| 30 | Glenn Ford | 90 | actor |
| September | |||
| 4 | Steve Irwin | 44 | documentary filmmaker |
| 9 | Gérard Brach | 79 | Director and screenwriter |
| 20 | Sven Nykvist | 83 | cinematografist |
| November | |||
| 1 | Adrienne Shelly | 40 | actress |
| 10 | Jack Palance | 87 | actor |
| 20 | Robert Altman | 81 | Director |
| 23 | Philippe Noiret | 76 | actor |
| December | |||
| 12 | Peter Boyle | 71 | actor |
| 14 | Mike Evans | 57 | actor |
| 18 | Joseph Barbera | 95 | animated films |
| 25 | James Brown | 73 | singer |