Today On Screen

A daily calendar of fictional significant dates from movies, TV, games, and comics.

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Today, October 2, Virginia teen Donnie Darko sleepwalks to a hallucinatory meeting with Frank, a figure in a monster-like rabbit costume. Frank tells Donnie that the world will end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds (Donnie Darko, 2001, dir. @JRichardKelly)

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Today, October 1, Professor Raymond Knowby buries his deceased wife Henrietta in a cabin cellar after she is possessed by a demon unleashed by the Necronomicon (Evil Dead II, 1987)

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Today, September 30, in 1829, Celia tries to encourage her sister Dorothea to divide their deceased mother’s jewelry, but Dodo is more concerned with helping the poor (Middlemarch, 1994)

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Today, September 30, tech, space, and weapons corporation Weyland Industries acquires Genentech, significantly bolstering the company’s biotech holdings. This is its first step to becoming a mega-corporation that will later be valued at $100 billion (Prometheus, 2012)

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Today, September 29, a group of friends race around New York City to try and find the half-remembered location of a restaurant with an autographed photo of Regis Philbin on the wall, the source of the greatest burger in the city (How I Met Your Mother, 2005) #HIMYM

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Today, September 28, at exactly 11 AM, at the funfair near the ghost train, the marshmallow twister’s twisting. Meanwhile on a bench in Villette Park, Félix Lerbier learns there are more links in his brain than atoms in the universe. Amélie starts a new adventure (Amélie, 2001)

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Today, September 11, in 1984, Roberta heads to New York City to look for Jim and Susan, a couple who have been exchanging messages in the personals ad of a tabloid newspaper (Desperately Seeking Susan, 1985)

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Today, September 10, in 2008, when the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator is turned on, our universe is split into multiple parallel universes. Many people, including grieving game designer Brendan, remember details of things that have changed (The Mandela Effect, 2019)

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Today, September 9, in 2012, years after a virus has decimated the Earth’s population, virologist Robert Neville, who is himself immune, creates a cure for the virus and sacrifices himself so that it can be shared with humanity (I Am Legend, 2007)

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Today, September 8, an astrophysics lab tests a new laser spectroscope, accidentally yanking anthropomorphic duck Howard into Cleveland, Ohio from a different dimension (Howard the Duck, 1986)

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Today, September 3, is Bob and Linda's wedding anniversary. Happy anniversary, Bob and Linda! (Bob's Burgers, 2011)

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Today, August 31, laying awake a few hours after discovering a box of treasures, Amélie decides to track down the owner (Amélie, 2001)

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Today, August 30, in 1997, Amélie Poulain, startled by news of Princess Diana’s death, discovers a child’s treasured items hidden behind her wall (Amélie, 2001)

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Today, August 29, in 1997, high schooler Tomoko and three of her friends stay in a rental cabin in Izu, where they watch a cursed VHS tape. All four die one week later, their faces frozen in fear (Ringu, 1998)

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Today, August 28, in 1965, 12-year-olds Sam Shakusky and Suzy Bishop make plans to run away together a few days later (Moonrise Kingdom, 2012)

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Today, August 27, Kermit and Fozzie, reporters for the Daily Chronicle, get in trouble for publishing an article about joining the newspaper instead of covering a recent series of jewel thefts, and decide to travel to London to investigate (The Great Muppet Caper, 1981)

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Today, August 25, misfit Texas teen Bliss attends her first roller derby bout in Austin, sparking an interest in the game and a new phase of her life (Whip It, 2009)

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Today, August 24, is the start of Weirdmageddon, an apocalyptic interdimensional event one billion years prophesised (Gravity Falls, 2014, @_AlexHirsch)

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Today, August 23, in 2000, a 9.6 earthquake hits Los Angeles, creating an island from Malibu to Anaheim (Escape from L.A., 1996)

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Today, August 22, in 1998, NYPD officer Max Payne arrives home to find that his wife Michelle and daughter Rose have been killed by a trio of men addicted to new designer drug Valkyrie (Max Payne, 2001, @remedygames)