* 1975 – The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the longest-running release in film history, opens at the USA Theatre in Westwood, Los Angeles, California.

Each time a new film of his opens, everything he has done before seems to have been preparation for it.

The film properly opens with Inspector Warren finding the corpse of a male transvestite named Patrick / Patricia, who has committed suicide.

* 1933 – The film King Kong opens at New York's Radio City Music Hall.

The film opens at a school where a boy is picking on another boy.

These promotional materials consistently change and evolve as a direct consequence of audience research up until the film opens in theaters.

When an image is taken, the mirror moves upwards from its resting position in the direction of the arrow, the focal plane shutter ( 3 ) opens, and the image is projected onto the film or sensor ( 4 ) in exactly the same manner as on the focusing screen.

Romero describes the mood he wished to establish: " The film opens with a situation that has already disintegrated to a point of little hope, and it moves progressively toward absolute despair and ultimate tragedy ".

The film opens as a psychological thriller – IRA foot soldier Fergus and a unit of other IRA fighters, including a woman named Jude and led by Maguire, kidnap Jody, a black British soldier.

The film opens on Château de Fontainebleau in 1814.

* May 25 – Star Wars opens in cinemas and later becomes the historic highest grossing film for that time.

** Ingmar Bergman's film The Seventh Seal opens in Sweden.

* October 2 – David Lean's film The Bridge on the River Kwai opens in the UK.

* July 12 – Laurence Olivier's film Henry V, based on Shakespeare's play, opens in London.

** The second James Bond film, From Russia with Love, opens in the UK.

* December 11 – The film Oliver !, based on the hit London and Broadway musical, opens in the U. S. after being released first in England.

* July 3 – Back to the Future opens in American theatres and ends up being the highest grossing film of 1985 in the United States and the first film in the successful franchise.

* November 30 – The 1935 British-made film Scrooge, the first all-talking film version of Charles Dickens classic, opens in the U. S. after its British release.

Focal-plane shutters are also difficult to synchronise with flash bulbs and electronic flash and it is often only possible to use flash at shutter speeds where the curtain that opens to reveal the film completes its run and the film is fully uncovered, before the second curtain starts to travel and cover it up again.

The film opens with Leia Organa ( Carrie Fisher ) transporting the station's schematics to the Rebel Alliance to aid them in destroying the Death Star.

The film opens with a three-minute, twenty-second tracking shot widely considered by critics as one of the greatest long takes in cinematic history.

The film opens with Larry Talbot ( Lon Chaney, Jr .) making an urgent call from London to a Florida railway station where Chick Young ( Bud Abbott ) and Wilbur Grey ( Lou Costello ) work as baggage-clerks.

A Brazilian actor might be a B-list action film actor in the US, but an A-list star in Portugal.

* Cassiopéia, a Brazilian CGI film

* 1946 – Hector Babenco, Brazilian film director

* 1955 – Bruno Barreto, Brazilian film director

* 1955 – Fernando Meirelles, Brazilian film director

** Alberto Cavalcanti, Brazilian film director ( b. 1897 )

** Bruno Barreto, Brazilian film director

* Amélia ( film ), a 2000 Brazilian film directed by Ana Carolina

He probably would have remained a well-respected but minor jazz figure had he not written an original number to fill out his covers of Antonio Carlos Jobim / Luis Bonfá tunes on his 1962 album, Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus, inspired by the French / Brazilian film Black Orpheus, which won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Carmen Miranda, GCIH (, 9 February 1909 – 5 August 1955 ) was a Portuguese-born Brazilian samba singer, Broadway actress and Hollywood film star popular in the 1940s and 1950s.

* Primo Filmes, a Brazilian film production company

* Cinema Novo or Novo Cinema, a movement in Brazilian and Portuguese film

In 2004, the film was listed as # 77 on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments for the Brazilian birthday party scene.

The film also featured the song " Aquarela do Brasil ", written by the popular Brazilian songwriter Ary Barroso and performed by Aloysio De Oliveira and an instrumental version of " Tico-Tico no Fubá ", written by Zequinha de Abreu.

However after appearing in this film it became an international hit, becoming the first Brazilian song to be played over a million times on American radio.

The Brazilian film Tropa de Elite ( 2007 ) depicts an execution by burning in Rio de Janeiro.

Brazilian comedy group Hermes & Renato spoofed the film in their MTV program Tela Class, redubbing it as " Santa Claus e o pozinho mágico " ( Santa Claus and the Magic Powder ; " magic powder " being more loosely translated here as " angel dust ").

In the film Gaijin, a Brazilian Odyssey directed by Tizuka Yamasaki, newly immigratated Japanese agricultural laborers struggle to adapt to Brazilian culture.

Four more songs from the album Dead Man's Party were used in soundtracks: " No One Lives Forever " was featured in Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, " Stay " ( in the Boingo Alive version ) was used as the theme music for the Brazilian soap opera Top Model, " Same Man I Was Before " was used in My Best Friend Is a Vampire and " Just Another Day " opened the 1985 film adaptation of S. E. Hinton's That Was Then, This Is Now.

* In 1986 in the Brazilian musical film Ópera do Malandro ( American title Malandro ), by Ruy Guerra ( director ) and Chico Buarque ( writer and composer ).

Category: Brazilian film score composers

* Bicho de Sete Cabeças, 2001 Brazilian film about life in a mental hospital

A film that " uses gorgeous, saturated images set to an eclectic soundtrack of tango by Argentinian maestro Astor Piazolla, Brazilian singer Caetano Veloso and Frank Zappa instrumentals to chronicle the stormy affair of a gay couple living as expatriates in Buenos Aires.