The top ten films released in 1989 by worldwide gross are as follows:
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 film Boxing Helena.)
June 13 - The James Bond film Licence to Kill is released. Unknown to anyone at the time, it would be followed by years of legal wrangling over the future of the popular series. The next Bond film, GoldenEye, is not released until 1995.
Ticket prices had increased by more than 22 percent between 1984 and 1989, but fans still turned out in droves to watch the quartet catch ghouls; the film narrowly beat Indiana Jones’ first weekend gross despite that film opening on the four-day Memorial Day weekend.