2008 (MMVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2008th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 8th year of the 3rd millennium, the 8th year of the 21st century, and the 9th year of the 2000s decade.

Theatrical releases

Feature films

• January 11 - The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie
• January 21 - Hamlet 2 (Focus Features)
• February 8 - In Bruges (Focus Features), Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins
• February 14 - Definitely, Maybe
• February 22 - Be Kind Rewind (Focus Features)
• February 29 - The Other Boleyn Girl (Focus Features)
• March 7 - Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Focus Features)
• March 10 - Forgetting Sarah Marshall
• March 14 - Doomsday
• April 4 - Leatherheads
• April 25 - Baby Mama
• May 8 - Rudo y Cursi (Focus Features)
• May 30 - The Strangers (Focus Features)
• June 6 - Kung Fu Panda
• June 13 - The Incredible Hulk
• June 27 - Wanted
• July 11 - Hellboy II: The Golden Army
• July 18 - Mamma Mia!
• August 1
  • The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
  • Sixty Six
• August 22 - Death Race
• September 12 - Burn After Reading (Focus Features), The Express
• October 3 - Flash of Genius
• October 24 - Changeling
• October 28 - Milk (Focus Features)
• November 7
  • Role Models
  • Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
• November 10 - Powder Blue (Focus Features)
• December 5 - Frost/Nixon
• December 19 - The Tale of Despereaux

Shorts

• October 14 - Déjà Grape
• November 9 - Secrets of the Furious Five

Television

• January 21 - The Land Before Time ends its first season on Cartoon Network.
• November 29 - The Penguins of Madagascar premieres on Nickelodeon.

Home video releases

DVD and Blu-ray releases

• February 5 - Elizabeth: The Golden Age
• February 19 - American Gangster
• March 11 - Bee Movie
• March 18 - Atonement
• April 8 - Reservation Road
• April 22 - Charlie Wilson's War
• June 17 - Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins
• June 24 - Definitely, Maybe
• July 22
  • The Mummy
  • The Mummy Returns
  • The Scorpion King
• July 29 - Doomsday
• August 19
  • Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
  • The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior
• September 9 - Baby Mama
• September 23
  • Leatherheads
• October 21
  • The Incredible Hulk
  • The Strangers
• November 8 - Kung Fu Panda
• November 11 - Hellboy II: The Golden Army
• December 2 - Wanted
• December 16
  • Mamma Mia!
  • The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
• December 21
  • Burn After Reading
  • Death Race

DVD only releases

• January 8 - White Nosie 2
• January 22 - Sydney White
• February 19 - Lust, Caution
• February 19
  • Curious George: Goes to the Doctor and Lends a Helping Hand
  • The Land Before Time: Adventuring in the Mysterious Beyond
• March 11 - Bee Movie
• May 13
  • Curious George: Takes a Vacation and Discovers New Things
  • The Land Before Time: Through the Eyes of a Spiketail
• June 24 - In Bruges
• August 26
  • Curious George: Sails with the Pirates and Other Curious Capers
  • The Land Before Time: Magical Discoveries
• September 9 - The Big Lebowski: 10th Anniversary Limited Edition
• September 9 - The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper: Volume 2
• October 14 - The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie
• November 4 - Shrek the Halls
• December 2
  • Curious George: Leads the Band and Other Music Mayhem
  • The Land Before Time: Friends Forever
• December 21 - Hamlet 2

Character debuts

• June 6 - Po, Tigress, Crane, Monkey, Viper, Mantis, Shifu, Oogway, Tai Lung
• August 1 - Emperor Han
• November 7 - Makunga

Events

• Illumination begins production on their first CG feature film, Despicable Me in November.

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