Movies: Late 90's

Today we will discuss the movies from 1997 up to 1999.

The top grossing movies of 1997 is Titanic ($1,843,201,268), making it the highest grossing film in history. On Sunday, February 22, 1998, Titanic reached a $400 million domestic gross in a record time of 66 days. On Thursday, March 26, 1998 after 98 days in release, Titanic reached $500 million domestically, becoming the first film in history to cross the half-billion-dollar domestic milestone. On Thursday, August 27, 1998 Titanic reached $600 million domestically becoming the most successful box office film in history (until Avatar broke this record in 2010).

Some movie events were:

·         The original Star Wars trilogy's Special Editions are released.

·         Production begins on Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.

·         The Lost World: Jurassic Park grosses a record $90,161,880 on Memorial Weekend.

·         As of November 7, 2008, forty-one films released in 1997 have grossed more than $100 million, reaching blockbuster status

The top grossing film of 1998 was Armageddon ($553,709,788). Some other successful movies that were released in that year are: Saving Private Ryan, Godzilla, There’s Something About Mary and A Bug’s Life. There weren’t any notable events in this year.

The highest grossing movie of 1999 was Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace ($924,317,558).

Some events this year were:

·         April 17 - Star Wars fans begin lining up at cinemas in Westwood and Hollywood to buy tickets for Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.

·         November 24 - Toy Story 2, a sequel to the 1995 film Toy Story, is released in theaters across the United States, and becomes an even bigger hit than the original. The film is released in the United Kingdom in February 2000.

The year 1999 in film has been called "The Year That Changed Movies". Several significant feature films, including Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut, Pedro Almodóvar's first Oscar-winning film All About My Mother, science fiction The Matrix, Deep Canvas-pioneering Tarzan, Best Picture-winner American Beauty, critically acclaimed animated works The Iron Giant, Toy Story 2 and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman's breakout film Being John Malkovich, M. Night Shyamalan's breakout hit The Sixth Sense, the controversial Fight Club, Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia and the first installment of George Lucas's Star Wars prequel trilogy were released this year.

This was all for the movies that were released during the late 90’s, next time we will provide a top 50 of highest grossing 90’s movies.