1998 in film
In 1998 there were many significant films which were released, including Shakespeare in Love, Saving Private Ryan, Armageddon, American History X, The Truman Show, Primary Colors, Rushmore, Rush Hour, There's Something About Mary, The Big Lebowski, and Terrence Malick's directorial return in The Thin Red Line.
grossed $482 million worldwide, becoming the highest grossing World War II film until it was surpassed by Dunkirk (2017). However, adjusting for 2017 monetary inflation, Saving Private Ryan grossed $718 million.
Saving Private Ryan
became the top-grossing film based on a Marvel Comics character, grossing $131.2 million worldwide at the time of its release.
Blade
The franchise became the seventh film franchise to gross $1 billion with the release of Star Trek: Insurrection.[2]
Star Trek
March 1 – becomes the first film to gross over $1 billion at the worldwide box office. Twenty days later, the film won eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Titanic
May 8 and July 1 – 1998 saw the release of two dueling science-fiction disaster films about asteroids, and Deep Impact which both became box office success, with Armageddon becoming the most popular out of the two and was also the highest-grossing film of 1998 worldwide.
Armageddon
July 24 – , directed by Steven Spielberg, was released and received critical acclaim leading it to be the top grossing domestic film of 1998. Saving Private Ryan won five Academy Awards including Best Director, the film was lauded as an influential landmark in the war and action film genres, primarily due to its use of desaturated colors, hand-held cameras, and tight angles.
Saving Private Ryan
August 21 – , based on the character of the same name, grossed over $131.2 million worldwide. It's success would help stage future film adaptations of Marvel Comics.
Blade
September 19 – , DreamWorks' first animated feature film, that premiered at the 23rd Toronto International Film Festival.
Antz
December 25, Filmmaker , returned after a twenty-year hiatus with The Thin Red Line.
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