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April 2025 The New York Times includes 'Memento' in their list of 'The Movies We've Loved Since 2000', recognizing the film's lasting impact and critical acclaim.
April 12 2025 Scheduled to air on an alternative date due to the 2025 Stanley Cup playoffs.
April 3 2025 The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation announced Mike Pence as the recipient of the JFK Profile in Courage Award for ensuring the constitutional transfer of presidential power on January 6, 2021.
March 21 2025 Scheduled release date for the live-action Snow White film.
March 2025 The New York Times listed Shrek among 'The Movies We've Loved Since 2000'.
March 2025 The New York Times listed 12 Years a Slave among 'The Movies We've Loved Since 2000'.
March 13 2025 Potential future events related to pardons or commutations for participants in the January 6 Capitol attack remain speculative as of the current date.
2025 Screamboat, a comedy horror film directed by Steven LaMorte where Mickey Mouse transforms into a mutated creature and goes on a murderous rampage on a ferry, was announced and set for release.
2025 Jurassic World Rebirth film released with Spielberg as executive producer
2025 The film Jurassic World Rebirth is set to feature the raft sequence originally cut from the first Jurassic Park film adaptation.
February 2025 In the early stages of Trump's second administration, he fires archivist Colleen Shogan. Deputy archivist William J. Bosanko becomes acting archivist, with Jim Byron appointed as senior advisor.
February 2025 Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal recreate the famous Katz's Delicatessen scene for a Hellmann's mayonnaise Super Bowl LIX advertisement, with Sydney Sweeney delivering the iconic 'I'll have what she's having' line.
February 2025 Spoke at the Principles First conference, confronted by Enrique Tarrio of the Proud Boys, whom Fanone called a 'traitor'
2025 U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia initiated an internal review of January 6 prosecutions under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
February 2025 The Washington Post reported that candidates for top intelligence and law enforcement positions were being screened with questions about January 6 being 'an inside job' and the 2020 election being 'stolen'.
February 14 2025 A sequel to The Goonies was confirmed to be in development, with Potsy Ponciroli writing the script and Steven Spielberg producing.
February 3 2025 Cast members reunited at TCL Chinese Theatres to celebrate Ke Huy Quan receiving his star, including Josh Brolin, Corey Feldman, Jeff Cohen, Kerri Green, and Chris Columbus. Later, Feldman, Cohen, Green, Quan, and Sean Astin attended the red carpet premiere of their movie 'Love Hurts'.
January 2025 Appeared on Inside Edition to discuss inaugural security planning, sharing his expertise on managing high-profile security events.
January 20 2025 U.S. President Joe Biden granted pardons covering all members of the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 riot, their staff, and the officers who testified.
January 20 2025 Following the mass pardons, President Trump ordered the Department of Justice to remove previously-published press releases about the arrests and convictions of those pardoned, and video evidence of the attack began to be purged from government databases.
January 20 2025 Trump was inaugurated for a second presidential term with JD Vance as his vice president.
January 20 2025 Upon taking office, Trump granted clemency to all January 6 rioters, including members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers who violently assaulted police.
January 15 2025 A standard issue 4K UHD version of the film was released.
January 14 2025 The part of the special counsel report about election obstruction was made public.
January 2025 Spielberg revealed in an Indiewire interview that he had briefly considered adapting 'E.T.: The Book of the Green Planet' into a film but ultimately decided against it.
January 10 2025 Jack Smith resigned from his position three days after submitting his report.
January 7 2025 Special Counsel Smith submitted his final 137-page report to the Justice Department about the January 6 events.
2024 Dunn campaigned for President Biden's reelection campaign and later for Vice President Kamala Harris's presidential campaign in swing states, working alongside other former U.S. Capitol Police officers who were present during the January 6 Capitol attack.
2024 The Mouse Trap, a slasher film featuring a mass murderer in a Mickey Mouse mask hunting teenagers in an arcade, was announced following Steamboat Willie entering public domain.
2024 Pink Flamingos was refused classification in New Zealand, effectively banning the film after a previous R18 rating.
2024 Toni Storm continues the 'Timeless' storyline in All Elite Wrestling, maintaining the character based on Norma Desmond, with English wrestler Mariah May playing an Eve Harrington-like rival, drawing additional inspiration from the film All About Eve.
2024 Star Wars: Skeleton Crew television series was inspired by The Goonies, demonstrating the film's ongoing cultural influence in media and storytelling decades after its original release.
2024 The 'Thriller' music video reaches one billion views on YouTube.
2024 U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Fischer v. United States, finding obstruction charges in January 6 cases were overbroad and did not apply to evidence tampering.
December 2024 The Subcommittee on Oversight of the 118th Congress released an interim report clearing Sund's reputation, concluding he had unfairly shouldered blame for the January 6 security failures and highlighting systemic agency miscommunications.
November 2024 Donald Trump won the presidential election.
November 2024 Following Trump's reelection to the presidency, the special counsel investigation charges were dismissed.
October 2024 Premiere of the stage adaptation of Dr. Strangelove in London's West End at the Noel Coward Theatre, marking the first stage adaptation of a Stanley Kubrick work.
October 27 2024 Freakzone Games releases a video game adaptation of The Rocky Horror Picture Show for multiple gaming platforms, including Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and Series S.
October 20 2024 The musical transferred to Broadway's St. James Theatre, with an opening night starring Nicole Scherzinger.
September 2024 The Sun publishes a report claiming a Goonies sequel is in development, but Martha Plimpton and Corey Feldman deny the rumors.
August 2024 Became an honorary member of the Iota Phi Theta fraternity during the Iota Leadership Conference in Houston, Texas.
August 2024 Lego released a 1,497-piece set featuring the scene of Bruce attacking the Orca with Chief Martin Brody, Matt Hooper, and Sam Quint.
August 29 2024 Zen Studios released The Princess Bride table for Pinball FX.
July 2024 Dunn launched Democracy Defenders PAC to support candidates running against pro-Trump Republicans, and began campaigning for President Biden's reelection campaign in swing states.
July 2024 The fountain was vandalized with anti-Israel graffiti. Zaid Mohammad Mahdawi was arrested by the United States Park Police and FBI for writing graffiti supporting Hamas.
July 2024 Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race, leading to Trump's subsequent election victory.
June 2024 Eddie Murphy announced he had begun voice recording sessions for Shrek 5 and would subsequently work on a Donkey spinoff.

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