1990s in film

The decade of the 1990s in film involved many significant developments in cinema. Continuing from the 1980s, low-budget independent films unceasingly rose and maintained their popularity in the industry within the decade.[1][2]

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Events

• Thousands of full-length films were produced during the 1990s. Manys were specifically filmed or edited to be displayed both on theater screens as well as on the smaller TV screens, such as showing close-up scenes during dialog, rather than just wide-angle scenes in a room. The home-video market became a major factor in total revenue for a film, often doubling its total income.
• The 1990s were notable in both the rise of independent cinema – as well as independent studios such as Miramax, Lions Gate, and New Line – and the advancements in CGI-technology, seen in such films as Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Jurassic Park, and Forrest Gump. Toy Story (1995) became the first feature length film to be completely computer animated, heralding its use as a tool for filmmakers to achieve new visuals for film.
• The Disney Renaissance began in late 1989 with The Little Mermaid, reached its peak in popularity with The Lion King in 1994, and ended in 1999 with Tarzan.
• 1988's Die Hard established what would become a common formula for many 90s action films, featuring a lone everyman against a colorful terrorist character, who's usually holding hostages, in an isolated setting. Such films and their sequels are often referred to as "Die Hard on a _____": Under Siege (battleship), Cliffhanger (mountain), Speed (bus), The Rock (prison island), Con Air (prison plane), Air Force One (presidential plane), etc...
• A resurgence of disaster films dominated the box office with blockbusters such as Twister, Independence Day, Titanic, and Armageddon.
• Several leading figures of 1980s to mid-1990s Hong Kong action cinema migrated to Hollywood with varying success: Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh, John Woo, Yuen Woo-ping, Tsui Hark, etc... Updating martial arts and gunfight choreography in American cinema with films such as Broken Arrow, Face/Off, Tomorrow Never Dies, Lethal Weapon 4, Rush Hour, and The Matrix.
• Bollywood gained popularity worldwide. Especially Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge which became the longest-running Indian movie playing at the Maratha Mandir for 1009 weeks since its release in October 1995 until February 2015, and Kuch Kuch Hota Hai being one of the top ten movies in the United Kingdom and India.

Highest-grossing films

List of worldwide highest-grossing films

Rank	Title	Studios	Worldwide gross	Year	Ref.
1	Titanic	Paramount Pictures/20th Century Fox	$1,843,201,268	1997	[# 1]
2	Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace	20th Century Fox	$924,317,558	1999	[# 2]
3	Jurassic Park	Universal Pictures	$914,691,118	1993	[# 3]
4	Independence Day	20th Century Fox	$817,400,891	1996	[# 4]
5	The Lion King	Walt Disney Pictures	$763,455,561	1994	[# 5]
6	Forrest Gump	Paramount Pictures	$677,387,716	1994	[# 6]
7	The Sixth Sense	Walt Disney Pictures	$672,806,292	1999	[# 7]
8	The Lost World: Jurassic Park	Universal Pictures	$618,638,999	1997	[# 8]
9	Men in Black	Sony Pictures/Columbia Pictures	$589,390,539	1997	[# 9]
10	Armageddon	Touchstone Pictures	$553,709,788	1998	[# 10]
11	Terminator 2: Judgment Day	TriStar Pictures	$519,843,345	1991	[# 11]
12	Ghost	Paramount Pictures	$505,702,588	1990	[# 12]
13	Aladdin	Walt Disney Pictures	$504,050,219	1992	[# 13]
14	Twister	Warner Bros./Universal Pictures	$494,471,524	1996	[# 14]
15	Toy Story 2	Walt Disney Pictures	$485,015,179	1999	[# 15]
16	Saving Private Ryan	DreamWorks Pictures/Paramount Pictures	$481,840,909	1998	[# 16]
17	Home Alone	20th Century Fox	$476,684,675	1990	[# 17]
18	The Matrix	Warner Bros.	$463,517,383	1999	[# 18]
19	Pretty Woman	Touchstone Pictures	$463,406,268	1990	[# 19]
20	Mission: Impossible	Paramount Pictures	$457,696,359	1996	[# 20]
21	Tarzan	Walt Disney Pictures	$448,191,819	1999	[# 21]
22	Mrs. Doubtfire	20th Century Fox	$441,286,195	1993	[# 22]
23	Dances with Wolves	Orion Pictures	$424,208,848	1990	[# 23]
24	The Mummy	Universal Pictures	$415,933,406	1999	[# 24]
25	The Bodyguard	Warner Bros.	$411,006,740	1992	[# 25]
26	Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves	Warner Bros.	$390,493,908	1991	[# 26]
27	Godzilla	TriStar Pictures	$379,014,294	1998	[# 27]
28	True Lies	20th Century Fox	$378,882,411	1994	[# 28]
29	Toy Story	Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Animation Studios	$373,554,033	1995	[# 29]
30	There's Something About Mary	20th Century Fox	$369,884,651	1998	[# 30]
31	The Fugitive	Warner Bros.	$368,875,760	1993	[# 31]
32	Die Hard with a Vengeance	20th Century Fox/Cinergi Pictures	$366,101,666	1995	[# 32]
33	Notting Hill	Universal Pictures	$363,889,678	1999	[# 33]
34	A Bug's Life	Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Animation Studios	$363,398,565	1998	[# 34]
35	The World Is Not Enough	MGM	$361,832,400	1999	[# 35]
36	Home Alone 2: Lost in New York	20th Century Fox	$358,994,850	1992	[# 36]
37	American Beauty	DreamWorks Pictures	$356,296,601	1999	[# 37]
38	Apollo 13	Universal Pictures/Imagine Entertainment	$355,237,933	1995	[# 38]
39	Basic Instinct	TriStar Pictures	$352,927,224	1992	[# 39]
40	GoldenEye	MGM/United Artists	$352,194,034	1995	[# 40]
41	The Mask	New Line Cinema	$351,583,407	1994	[# 41]
42	Speed	20th Century Fox	$350,448,145	1994	[# 42]
43	Deep Impact	Paramount Pictures/DreamWorks Pictures	$349,464,664	1998	[# 43]
44	Beauty and the Beast	Walt Disney Pictures	$346,317,207	1991	[# 44]
45	Pocahontas	Walt Disney Pictures	$346,079,773	1995	[# 45]
46	The Flintstones	Universal Pictures	$341,631,208	1994	[# 46]
47	Batman Forever	Warner Bros.	$336,529,144	1995	[# 47]
48	The Rock	Walt Disney Pictures	$335,062,621	1996	[# 48]
49	Tomorrow Never Dies	MGM/United Artists	$333,011,068	1997	[# 49]
50	Seven	New Line Cinema	$327,311,859	1995	[# 50]

List of films

• 1990 in film
• 1991 in film
• 1992 in film
• 1993 in film
• 1994 in film
• 1995 in film
• 1996 in film
• 1997 in film
• 1998 in film
• 1999 in film

See also

• Film, History of film, lists of films
• Popular culture: 1990s in music, 1990s in television
• Worst films of the 1990s

References

1. Pierson, John (18 September 2013). "Slacker: Slacking Off - From the Current". The Criterion Collection. The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 6 March 2016. [The spring of 1991] marked some major changes in my life and some surprising developments for American independent film. The whole concept of the self-distributed, hometown theatrical opening of a film is quite risky. If it doesn’t work, distributors will never pick your film up.
2. Dirks, Tim. "Film History of the 1990s". Filmsite.org. American Movie Classics Company LLC. Retrieved 6 March 2016.

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