1989 in film

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1 Events
2 Top grossing films in the U.S.
3 Awards
4 Films released in 1989
5 Births
6 Deaths

Events

Actress Kim Basinger and her brother Mick purchase Braselton, Georgia for $20 million. (Basinger would lose the town to her partner in the deal, the pension fund of Chicago-based Ameritech Corp., in 1993 after being forced to file for bankruptcy when a California judge ordered her to pay $7.4 million for refusing to honor a verbal contract to star in the movie Boxing Helena.)
February - Filming begins on Back to the Future Part II
June - Filming of Back to the Future Part II is completed
June 23 - The movie Batman is released in the United States.
August - Filming begins on Back to the Future Part III
September - Christina Applegate moves to college
September - Columbia Pictures and Tri-Star Pictures are sold to Sony
December - Filming of Back to the Future Part III is completed
The James Bond film Licence to Kill is released. Unknown to anyone at the time, its release would be followed by years of legal wrangling over the future of the popular film series. The next Bond film, GoldenEye, will not be released until 1995. While still considered parts of the same series, Licence to Kill is considered the last of the "old-style" Bond films as produced since 1962.
Screen and stage legend Sir Laurence Olivier appeared in his last filmed role before his death in 1989 as an old soldier in War Requiem

Top grossing films in the U.S.

1989 Rank	Title	Studio	Gross
1.	Batman	Warner Brothers	$251,188,924
2.	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	Paramount	$197,171,806
3.	Lethal Weapon 2	Warner Brothers	$147,253,986
4.	Look Who's Talking	Tristar	$140,088,813
5.	Honey, I Shrunk the Kids	Buena Vista	$130,724,172
6.	Back to the Future, Part II	Universal	$118,450,002
7.	Ghostbusters II	Columbia	$112,494,738
8.	Driving Miss Daisy	Warner Brothers	$106,593,296
9.	Parenthood	Universal	$100,047,830
10.	Dead Poets Society	Buena Vista	$95,860,116