The Little Mermaid also reinvigorated public and critical interest in The Walt Disney Company, which would become one of the most prestigious corporations of the 1990s.
November 17 – The Little Mermaid becomes a critical and commercial success and brings new life to Walt Disney Feature Animation. Vajna agrees to sell his stake in Carolco Pictures to his co-chairman and co-founder Mario Kassar for $106 million. They appoint Peter Guber and Jon Peters as co-chairman, in a further deal that cost up to $1 billion, after settling a lawsuit with Warner Bros. The deal is completed in November for a total cost of nearly $5 billion. September 28 – Sony announce its intention to buy Columbia Pictures and Tri-Star Pictures. 
August 2 – Ron Howard's family comedy Parenthood, starring Steve Martin, Tom Hulce, and Rick Moranis, is released. July 11 – Screen, stage, and Shakespearian legend Laurence Olivier died peacefully in his home in England, after appearing in his last filmed role as an old soldier in War Requiem. As well as the highest grossing R-rated film of the year at the domestic box office. July 7 – Lethal Weapon 2 is released and becomes the highest-grossing film in the franchise. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is released and marks the directorial debut of visual effects supervisor Joe Johnston, who later went on to direct The Rocketeer, Jumanji, October Sky, Jurassic Park III, and Captain America: The First Avenger. Batman is released, going on to gross more than $410 million worldwide, and establishing the public and critical attention of director Tim Burton. The next Bond film, GoldenEye, is not released until 1995. It would be followed by years of legal wrangling over the future of the popular series. June 13 – The James Bond film Licence to Kill is released. It is the third installment of the Indiana Jones series. May 24 – Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is released. April 23 – Field of Dreams, starring Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, and Burt Lancaster, is released. 
Harris under the supervision of director David Lean. The restoration was undertaken by Robert A.
A director's cut of Lawrence of Arabia is released with a 227-minute length. 
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. Actress Kim Basinger and her brother Mick purchase Braselton, Georgia, for $20 million.The top 10 films released in 1989 by worldwide gross are as follows: Highest-grossing films of 1989 See also: List of 1989 box office number-one films in the United States
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