In celebration of the month of April, a month that starts with everyone on the look-out for pranks on April Fool’s Day, SSN has compiled a list of events for you including film releases, TV premieres, famous birthdays, events around LA and NYC, film festivals around the world to keep you updated in one fell swoop.
April Events Calendar
Wednesday, April 1 Happy April’s Fools Day Happy Birthday Debbie Reynolds, Asa Butterfield Today in History - General Hospital premiered on ABC in 1963 Bologna Children's Book Fair, runs from March 30 through April 2 FILM RELEASE - Woman in Gold TV - Man Finds Food on Travel Channel (NEW), Brew Dogs on Esquire
Thursday, April 2 Happy Birthday Michael Fassbender TV – Olympus on SyFy (NEW), 8 Minutes on A&E (NEW), Lip Sync Battle on Spike (NEW), Timber Kings on Discovery Channel
Friday, April 3 Happy Birthday Eddie Murphy, Cobie Smulders FanExpo Vancouver (Comic Convention) runs from April 3 through April 5 17th Annual Film Noir Festival at the Egyptian Theater through April 18 FILM RELEASES – Cut Bank, Effie Gray, The Girl is in Trouble, Furious 7, Detective Byomkesh Bakshy, SBK The-Movie TV – The Grace Helbig Show on E! (NEW), Meet the Smiths on TBS (NEW), Mysteries at the Museum on Travel Channel, Pool Masters on Animation Planet
Saturday, April 4 Happy Birthday Robert Downey Jr. TV – My Cat from Hell on Animal Planet, American Odyssey on NBC (NEW), 100 Miles from Nowhere on Animal Planet (NEW), Salem on WGN
Sunday, April 5 Happy Birthday Pharrell Williams Paley Center Event (LA) – The Complete Hitchcock: Television through April 6
Monday, April 6 Happy Birthday Paul Rudd, Zach Braff
Tuesday, April 7 Happy Birthday Jackie Chan, Russell Crowe Today in History- “South Pacific” opened on Broadway in 1949 TV – Funny Girls on Oxygen (NEW), Your Family or Mine on TBS (NEW)
Wednesday, April 8 Happy Birthday John Schneider TV – Little Women: Terra’s Little Family on Lifetime (NEW), Million Dollar Listing New York on Bravo PR & Media Relations Summit (NYC)
Thursday, April 9 Happy Birthday Hugh Hefner, Kristen Stewart, Elle Fanning TV – The Comedians on FX (NEW), Louie on FX, Life Below Zero on NatGeo
Friday, April 10 Happy Birthday Mandy Moore, Steven Seagal, Charlie Hunnam Midwest Media Expo in Detroit through April 12 Florida Film Festival through April 19 TV – Daredevil on Netflix (NEW), Jump on Lifetime (NEW) FILM RELEASES – Broken Horses, Rebels of the Neon God, Clouds of Sils Maria, Desert Dancer, Lost River, The Longest Ride, Ex Machina, Kill Me Three Times
Saturday, April 11 Happy Birthday Michelle Phan Today in History – The Apollo 13 mission began in 1970 NAB Show through April 16 New York City Book Fair Oz Comic Con in Perth, Australia through April 12 TV – Polka Kings on Reelz (NEW), Hollywood Hillbillies on Reelz
Sunday, April 12 Happy Birthday David Letterman TV – Game of Thrones, Veep and Silicon Valley on HBO Awards/TV – MTV Movie Awards
Monday, April 13 Happy Birthday Ron Perlman, Allison Williams MIPTV in Cannes, France through April 16 TV – Turn on AMC New Media Expo through April 16 in Las Vegas
Tuesday, April 14 Happy Birthday Abigail Breslin, Sarah Michelle Gellar Today in History – First motion picture public showing in 1894 London Book Fair through April 16 The 7th Annual TV & Film Finance Forum East presented by Winston Baker (NYC) TV – Other Space on Yahoo! (NEW), Good Work on E! (NEW), Botched on E!
Wednesday, April 15 Happy Birthday Seth Rogen, Emma Watson
Thursday, April 16 Happy Birthday Akon, Martin Lawrence
Friday, April 17 Happy Birthday Victoria Bekham, Jennifer Garner FILM RELEASES: Child 44, True Story, Roar, Monsters: The Dark Continent, Alex of Venice, Beyond the Reach, The Road Within, Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, Monkey Kingdom, Unfriended, Hautoa, Mr. X, The Squeeze TV – The Messengers on CW (NEW), Cedric’s Barber Battle on CW (NEW), Lost Girl on SyFy, Bitten on Syfy
Saturday, April 18 Happy Birthday Kourtney Kardashian, David Tennant, Jeff Dunham Los Angeles Festival of Books through April 19 TV - Chaos Caught on Camera on Discovery (NEW), Angry Planet on Pivot (NEW), Orphan Black on BBC (NEW)
Sunday, April 19 Happy Birthday James Franco TV/Awards – ACM Awards
Monday, April 20 Happy Birthday George Takei, Jessica Lange TV - Time Traveling With Brian Unger on Travel (NEW), Star Talk on NatGeo (NEW), Deadbeat on Hulu
Tuesday, April 21 Happy Birthday Queen Elizabeth II, Iggy Pop, James McAvoy Paley Center Event (LA) - Media RX: Access to Medicine through Entertainment
Wednesday, April 22 Happy Birthday Jack Nicholson USA Film Festival in Dallas, TX through April 26 TV - The Prancing Elites Project on Oxygen (NEW)
Thursday, April 23 Happy Birthday George Lopez Buenos Aires Book Fair through May 11 Newport Beach Film Festival through April 20 National Film Fest for Talented Youth in Seattle through April 26 Academy of Motion Pictures Event - Deconstructing Big Hero 6 at Samuel Goldwyn Theater
Friday, April 24 Happy Birthday Barbra Streisand, Kelly Clarkson Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo through April 26 FILM RELEASES – The Age of Adaline, Little Boy, Hyena, The Water Diviner, See You in Valhalla, Rock the Kasbah, Misery Loves Comedy, Brotherly Love, Blackbird, Beyond the Brick: A LEGO Brickumentary, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck TV – Flipping Ships on Animal Planet (NEW)
Saturday, April 25 Happy Birthday Al Pacino TV – The Dead Files on Travel Channel
Sunday, April 26 Happy Birthday Jet Li, Channing Tatum TV – Happyish on Showtime (NEW), Spring Baking Championship on Food Network (NEW) Awards/TV – Daytime Emmy Awards, BAFTA TV Craft Awards
Monday, April 27 FILM RELEASES – Mandariinid Awards – Billboard Latin Music Awards
Tuesday, April 28 Happy Birthday Jay Leno, Penelope Cruz, Jessica Alba FT Digital Media Convention in London through April 29 TV Connect in London through April 30 Paley Center Event (LA): The Goldbergs: Your TV Trip to the 1980s
Wednesday, April 29 Happy Birthday Jerry Seinfeld, Willie Nelson FILM RELEASE: Iris
Thursday, April 30 Happy Birthday Dianna Argon, Johnny Galecki, Kirsten Dunst
–Note all events are subject to change. If you would like to add events to our monthly calendar, please email marketing@ssninsider.com with the details.–