1989 in film

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Events

Batman is released on June 23, and goes on to gross over $410 million worldwide.
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 film Boxing Helena.)
September - Columbia Pictures and Tri-Star Pictures are sold to Sony
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, is not released until 1995.
Screen and stage legend Laurence Olivier appeared in his last filmed role before his death in 1989 as an old soldier in War Requiem
Field of Dreams is released on April 23, striking an emotional chord in men and fans of baseball.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is released on May 24. It is the 3rd installment of the Indiana Jones series.
Back to the Future Part II is released on November 22, and is the 2nd installment of the Back to the Future series.
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is released on June 23.
This is the first year where all ten top grossing films worldwide made more than $100,000,000.
The first installment of the Disney Renaissance, The Little Mermaid, is released on November 14; it is the first G-rated film to become one of the highest-grossing in literally a decade (since The Muppet Movie in 1979).

Top grossing films (Worldwide)

Rank	Title	Studio	Actors	Director	Gross
1.	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	Paramount/Lucasfilm	Harrison Ford, Julian Glover, Allison Doody, John Rhys-Davies, River Phoenix, Denholm Elliot, and Sean Connery	Steven Spielberg	$474,200,000
2.	Batman	Warner Bros.	Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, and Jack Palance	Tim Burton	$411,300,000
3.	Back to the Future Part II	Universal	Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd	Robert Zemeckis	$332,000,000
4.	Look Who's Talking	TriStar	John Travolta, Kirstie Alley	Amy Heckerling	$297,000,000
5.	Lethal Weapon 2	Warner Bros.	Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci	Richard Donner	$235,900,000
6.	Born on the Fourth of July	Universal	Tom Cruise	Oliver Stone	$227,900,000
7.	When Harry Met Sally...	Columbia	Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan	Rob Reiner	$222,700,000
8.	Ghostbusters II	Columbia	Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver	Ivan Reitman	$215,400,000
9.	The Little Mermaid	Disney	voices of Jodi Benson, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Pat Carroll, Samuel E. Wright, Jason Marin, and Kenneth Mars	Ron Clements and John Musker	$211,343,479
10.	The War of the Roses	Fox	Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner	Danny DeVito	$161,000,000