We have a sad announcement; this will unfortunately be our last week of blogging. We have had a great time blogging about all sorts of topics from the nineties and we will end it by blogging about movies from the nineties. Today we will discuss well-known movies from 1990 until 1993.
The biggest grossing film worldwide of 1990 was Ghost ($505,702,588) and it featured Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg. Some significant movie events in 1990 were:
· CGI technique is expanded with motion capture for CGI characters, used in Total Recall (1990).
· The first digitally-manipulated matte painting is used, in Die Hard 2.
· The use of real-time computer graphics or "digital puppetry" to create a character in a motion picture is performed, in RoboCop 2.
· November 16 - Disney's first ever animated sequel, The Rescuers Down Under, is released.
· Universal Pictures celebrated its 75th anniversary with a new logo.
The biggest grossing movie of 1991was Terminator 2: Judgment Day ($519,843,345) that starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and was directed by James Cameron. Two significant movie events in 1991 were:
· Terminator 2: Judgment Day, became one of the landmarks for science fiction action films with its groundbreaking visual effects from Industrial Light & Magic.
· November 22 - Walt Disney Pictures releases Beauty and the Beast which is the first animated film in history to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
The top grossing movie in 1992 was Disney’s Aladdin ($504,050,219), which had a budget of $28 million. Number 4 in the top (Basic Instinct) was directed by the Dutch Paul Verhoeven, and included the (in)famous interrogation scene.
The top grossing film of 1993 was Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park ($914,691,118). It was the highest grossing film ever made (at the time) and brought in way more money than its runner up Mrs. Doubtfire ($441,286,195). Some significant movie events of 1993 were:
· The film Jurassic Park, a dinosaur epic with massive special effects, breaks box-office records by becoming the highest-grossing film ever made (at the time).
· Family romance film Sleepless in Seattle revives the genre of the Courtship of Eddie's Father, with an extensive soundtrack of oldies music.
· March 31 - Actor Brandon Lee is accidentally killed during the filming of The Crow.
· Actress Kim Basinger files for bankruptcy after a California judge orders her to pay $7.4 million for refusing to honor a verbal contract to star in the film Boxing Helena. As a result, Basinger loses the town that she purchased in 1989, Braselton, Georgia, to her partner in the deal, the pension fund of Chicago-based Ameritech.
· May 28 - Produced by Hollywood Pictures, Super Mario Bros. opens, marking the first video game film released, starring Bob Hoskins as Mario and John Leguizamo as Luigi.
Next time we will discuss movies from the mid-nineties!
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