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1988 in film

1988 in film

Overview of the events of 1988 in film

The following is an overview of events in 1988 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.

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Highest-grossing films

See also: List of 1988 box office number-one films in the United States

The top 10 films released in 1988 by worldwide gross are as follows:[1]

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Events

  • May 25 – Rambo III is released as the most expensive film ever made with a production budget between $58 and $63 million. The film fails to match the box office earnings from Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985).
  • July 15 – Die Hard defies low commercial expectations to gross $141.5 million worldwide. Hailed as an influential landmark in the action film genre, it influences a common formula for many action films in the 1990s, featuring a lone everyman against a colorful terrorist character who is usually holding hostages in an isolated setting.
  • September 19 – English character actor Roy Kinnear suffers a fall from a horse which will prove fatal while filming The Return of the Musketeers in Toledo, Spain.[5]
  • October 10 – Batman officially commences filming at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, England.
  • October 27 – E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is released on VHS and laserdisc; to combat piracy, the tapeguards and tape hubs on the videocassettes are colored green, and the tape itself is affixed with a small, holographic sticker of the 1963 Universal logo (much like the holograms on a credit card), and encoded with Macrovision. In North America alone, VHS sales come to $75 million.[6]
  • December 16 – Rain Man is released to critical and commercial success and becomes the highest grossing film of 1988 worldwide with a gross of $355 million. Winning four Academy Awards including Best Picture, it is the last MGM title to be nominated for Best Picture until Licorice Pizza (2021) 33 years later.

Awards

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Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival)

Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle erobreren), directed by Bille August, Denmark

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival)

La leggenda del santo bevitore (The Legend of the Holy Drinker), directed by Ermanno Olmi, Italy / France

Golden Bear (Berlin International Film Festival)

Red Sorghum (Hong gao liang), directed by Zhang Yimou, China

1988 films

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References

  1. [1]
    "1988 Worldwide Box Office". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Archived from the original on October 28, 2020. Retrieved March 7, 2020.
  2. [2]
    "A Fish Called Wanda (1988)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved April 7, 2020. A Fish Called Wanda domestic gross $62,493,712
  3. [3]
    Groves, Don (August 9, 1989). "UIP Up, Up and Away For Year; Rentals Take Off". Variety. p. 11. UIP Top 10 Grossers, 1988–89
    Rain Man $233 million
    Crocodile Dundee 2 $126 million
    Coming to America $122 million
    A Fish Called Wanda $115 million
    Willow $80 million
    Twins $75 million
    The Naked Gun $61 million
  4. [4]
    "UIP's $25M-Plus Club". Variety. September 11, 1995. p. 92. A Fish Called Wanda $126,103,000; The Naked Gun $73,689,000
  5. [5]
    "Roy Kinnear Is Dead At 54 After Falling From Horse in Film". The New York Times. 23 September 1988. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
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    Griffin, Nancy (June 1988). "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade". Premiere.
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    Mason, Aiden (2017-08-28). "Five Things You Didn't Know About Anna Diop". TVOvermind. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
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    Editors of Chase's (24 September 2019). Chase's Calendar of Events 2020: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 424. ISBN 978-1-64143-316-7.
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    David K. Frasier (2002). Suicide in the Entertainment Industry: An Encyclopedia of 840 Twentieth-century Cases. McFarland. p. 244. ISBN 978-0-7864-1038-5.
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    Dennis Hevesi (13 May 1988). "Dominican Police Say 4 Men Killed George Rose". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
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    Newsweek. Newsweek. 1988. p. 72.
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    Ritu Nanda; Rāja Kapūra (2002). Raj Kapoor Speaks. Penguin Books India. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-670-04952-3.
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    John A. Willis (1989). Screen World. Crown Publishers. p. 235. ISBN 978-0-517-57332-7.
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