1989 in film

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Events

• Actress Kim Basinger and her brother Mick purchase Braselton, Georgia for $20 million. (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 movie Boxing Helena.)
• Mike Myers and Rob Lowe join SNL
• February - Filming begins on Back to the Future Part II
• June - Filming of Back to the Future Part II is completed
• June 23 - The movie Batman is released in the United States.
• August - Filming begins on Back to the Future Part III
• September - Christina Applegate moves to college
• September - Columbia Pictures and Tri-Star Pictures are sold to Sony.
• December - Filming of Back to the Future Part III is completed