Spinal Tap
Parody heavy metal band
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| 2025 | Rob Reiner plans to release the Spinal Tap sequel in late spring or early summer. |
| March 2024 | Began filming for Spinal Tap II in New Orleans, with the principal cast and director reuniting for the sequel planned for release in 2025. |
| February 2024 | Filming for the Spinal Tap sequel began, with Rob Reiner planning to release the film in late spring or early summer of 2025. |
| February 2024 | Filming for the Spinal Tap sequel began, marking Castle Rock Entertainment's first film since its revival in 2021. |
| 2023 | Chris Frantz of Talking Heads, in an interview, shared that watching Spinal Tap made him unable to take himself seriously again. |
| 2022 | Ric Parnell dies. |
| October 18 2022 | Michael McKean shared a previously unseen deleted scene from the original Spinal Tap movie on his Twitter account. |
| May 2022 | Announced a sequel film, Spinal Tap II, planned for release in 2025 by Castle Rock Entertainment. |
| May 2022 | Director Rob Reiner announced he is working on a sequel to the original film, which will include the original cast and feature cameos from Elton John, Paul McCartney, Garth Brooks, Questlove, and Trisha Yearwood. |
| September 2020 | A settlement was reached between Vivendi, StudioCanal, and the cast regarding merchandising, with final details to be resolved in the following months. |
| November 2019 | The soundtrack sales lawsuit was settled out of court, with UMG retaining distribution rights and music rights to eventually return to Shearer, Guest, and McKean. |
| April 27 2019 | Reunited at the Tribeca Film Festival for the 35th anniversary of the film. |
| 2018 | Harry Shearer released 'Smalls Change (Meditations on Ageing)', a solo album as the character Derek Smalls. |
| 2018 | A biographical comic book titled 'That Was Spinal Tap' was released, chronicling both the fictional band's story and the real-life creation of the characters and music, scripted by Jay Allen Sanford. |
| August 2018 | A judge ruled that Guest, Reiner, McKean, and Shearer could pursue the fraud claim against Vivendi. |
| October 2017 | Spinal Tap revised their case by adding Universal Music Group as a defendant and seeking to reclaim copyrights to the film, its songs, and characters. |
| September 2017 | A judge dismissed Shearer, Reiner, and McKean from the original lawsuit. |
| February 2017 | Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Rob Reiner joined Shearer's lawsuit against StudioCanal and Vivendi, seeking $400 million in damages. Vivendi attempted to have the case dismissed. |
| October 17 2016 | Harry Shearer filed a $125 million fraud and breach of contract lawsuit against StudioCanal and Vivendi, claiming minimal compensation for merchandise and music sales over three decades. |
| November 2015 | The Writers Guild of America ranked the film's screenplay as the 11th funniest in its list of 101 Funniest Screenplays. |
| 2011 | Time Out London named This Is Spinal Tap the best comedy film of all time. |
| January 2010 | Placed on Total Film's list of The 100 Greatest Movies of All Time. |
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