The Greatest of All Time
2024 Indian film by Venkat Prabhu
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| 2024 | The film became the first for Vijay to have eight consecutive films that crossed the 100 crore milestone. |
| 2024 | The film became Vijay's second film to reach 100 crore on opening day after Leo (2023). |
| 2024 | Gandhi captures Menon and brings him to M. A. Chidambaram Stadium to negotiate with Jeevan and prevent a bombing plot. |
| 2024 | Ajay is murdered by Jeevan during a confrontation over Nazeer's phone containing key evidence. |
| 2024 | Kalyan reveals his collaboration with Menon by suffocating Srinidhi to prevent her from becoming a witness, which leads Sunil to seek revenge. |
| 2024 | Gandhi discovers that Jeevan has been working for Menon, who had tracked Gandhi down, kidnapped Jeevan, and manipulated him into believing Gandhi was responsible for his family's death. |
| 2024 | Gandhi kills Jeevan after he threatens Jeevitha's life, preventing multiple bomb detonations at the stadium. |
| 2024 | Nazeer is killed by a masked attacker (later revealed to be Jeevan) at the Chennai Metro station during a confidential meeting with Gandhi. |
| 2024 | Gandhi, now working as an immigration officer at Chennai International Airport, is asked by his former boss Nazeer to go to Moscow to train new officers at the reopened Indian Embassy. |
| 2024 | During his time in Moscow, the Indian Embassy is attacked by a gang. Gandhi fights them off and discovers a young doppelgänger who turns out to be his long-lost son Jeevan. |
| October 3 2024 | The film began streaming on Netflix in multiple languages including Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, and Hindi. |
| September 2024 | The film was initially granted a U/A certificate from the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) after muting profanity, with an original runtime of 179 minutes. |
| September 5 2024 | The film 'The Greatest of All Time' was theatrically released in standard and IMAX formats in multiple languages, including Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi. The UK release also occurred on this date, with a 15 rating by the British Board of Film Classification. |
| September 5 2024 | The film was released worldwide in standard and IMAX formats, marking Vijay's penultimate film before his anticipated political entry. |
| August 2024 | Final trailer was released, with Vijay's de-aged looks positively received after improvements, confirmed by director Venkat Prabhu in response to previous criticism. |
| August 25 2024 | Official merchandise of the film was launched by Filmydice, Meesakar, ColourCrafts and Namma Tribe. |
| August 15 2024 | Pre-bookings for 'The Greatest of All Time' commenced in the United States, with premiere bookings exceeding 32,000 after the trailer's release. |
| August 8 2024 | Promotional IMAX poster was released, confirming the film's IMAX format release. |
| August 6 2024 | Pre-bookings for 'The Greatest of All Time' began in the UK, with over 1,000 tickets sold within six days of opening. |
| August 2 2024 | Additional official announcement posters for the third single were released, also receiving criticism for Vijay's de-aged appearance. |
| August 1 2024 | Official announcement posters for the third single were released, receiving negative response from fans due to Vijay's de-aged look. |
| July 29 2024 | Film's creative producer Archana Kalpathi announced that updates for the film would be released from the following month. |
| June 2024 | Film production wrapped up, concluding principal photography. |
| June 2024 | Principal photography wrapped up by late-June, with additional patchwork shoots at Sree Gokulam Studios in Chennai. |
| June 2024 | Principal photography wrapped up, concluding the film's extensive shooting schedule. |
| June 22 2024 | Teaser trailer was released, coinciding with Vijay's 50th birthday. |
| May 18 2024 | Lola Visual Effects completed the de-aging works within two days of starting. |
| May 16 2024 | Lola Visual Effects began work on advanced de-ageing technology for a ten-minute sequence featuring a younger version of Vijay. |
| May 14 2024 | Vijay began dubbing his portions and completed 50% of dubbing by this date. |
| April 18 2024 | Vijay returned to Chennai to cast his vote in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, having sustained an injury during filming. |
| April 7 2024 | Filming schedule moved to Moscow, Russia, with initial sequences shot at a school campus. |
| March 2024 | Venkat Prabhu confirmed VFX and CGI works had begun simultaneously with filming in Chennai and Los Angeles, involving five companies. |
| March 21 2024 | Vijay paused shooting due to fans gathering outside the stadium at midnight, and later met and greeted them. |
| March 18 2024 | Filming schedule in Kerala began at Greenfield International Stadium in Thiruvananthapuram, with a sequence featuring 3000 background artists. |
| February 5 2024 | Minor filming schedule began in Pondicherry, with a footage of Vijay, Prashanth, and Deva being leaked and going viral on social media. |
| February 2 2024 | Vijay announced his retirement from films after completing this film and his planned entry into politics, making this his penultimate film. |
| January 2024 | Parvati Nair revealed her participation in the film's cast. |
| December 31 2023 | The film's official title, 'The Greatest of All Time', was announced. |
| November 3 2023 | Vijay joined the filming schedule in Thailand. |
| October 2023 | Principal photography for the film commenced, spanning multiple international locations including Chennai, Thailand, Hyderabad, Sri Lanka, Pondicherry, Thiruvananthapuram, Russia, and the United States. |
| October 30 2023 | Second filming schedule commenced in Thailand. |
| October 9 2023 | Conclusion of the first AI-assisted song sequence filming. |
| October 3 2023 | Principal photography began at Prasad Labs in Chennai, with the first song sequence choreographed by Raju Sundaram and filmed, featuring Vijay, Prashanth, Deva, and Ajmal. |
| October 2 2023 | A muhurat puja was held at Prasad Labs in Chennai with the film's cast and crew to commence the project. |
| August 2023 | The film's production team traveled to Los Angeles to use visual effects scanning to create the look of one of Vijay's characters, using a technique previously used for Fan (2016). |
| May 21 2023 | Vijay announced through his social media pages that his 68th film would be directed by Venkat Prabhu, tentatively titled Thalapathy 68, to be produced by AGS Entertainment. |
| December 2022 | Reports continued about the potential collaboration between Vijay and Atlee, with filming tentatively planned to commence in June 2023. |
| November 2021 | Vijay was reported to collaborate with director Atlee for his 68th film as the lead actor, following their previous successful collaborations in Theri (2016), Mersal (2017), and Bigil (2019). |
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