#1 of 2 1989 · Action, Adventure
$156.2M worldwide · 63% of the chart's total
Licence to Kill (1989) is the highest-grossing English-language movie released in week 28 of 1989 (Jul 9–15), with $156.2M worldwide, ahead of When Harry Met Sally... (1989) at $93.3M. 2 English-language films released that week report a worldwide gross, $249.4M in all, 51% of it from the US & Canada. One film crossed $100 million; none reached $1 billion.
#1 of 2 1989 · Action, Adventure
$156.2M worldwide · 63% of the chart's total
Lifetime worldwide grosses in US dollars, not adjusted for inflation; domestic means the US & Canada. Films are grouped by their release date in week 28 of 1989 (Jul 9–15).
Jul 14, 1989 US and Canada: $34.7M Rest of the world: $121.5M Worldwide: $156.2M
Jul 12, 1989 US and Canada: $93.1M Rest of the world: $157.6K Worldwide: $93.3M 51 weeks of 1989 with reported grosses; the biggest is week 25 (Jun 18–24) with $634.3M, led by Batman (1989).
The chart's numbers in short: the #1 film, the total, the billion-dollar hits and the US & Canada share, answered from the same 2 films as the chart.
Licence to Kill (1989) leads with $156.2M worldwide, $34.7M of it in the US & Canada. Next come When Harry Met Sally... (1989) at $93.3M.
2 English-language films released in week 28 of 1989 (Jul 9–15) report a worldwide gross, $249.4M in all, or $124.7M per film on average.
None. 1 film crossed $100 million, led by Licence to Kill (1989) with $156.2M.
Films are ranked by lifetime worldwide gross in US dollars, not adjusted for inflation, and grouped by their release date in week 28 of 1989 (Jul 9–15). The figures are the reported box office grosses in our database. A gross that looks misattributed, such as one figure shared by two unrelated films or a blockbuster total on an obscure title, is left out rather than shown as a fact, and so are films whose stored language is most likely wrong.
Grosses change while films are in theaters and whenever a new figure is reported; this chart reads the latest numbers in our database, so an older film can still move after a re-release.