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Overview of the events of 1984 in film

The following is an overview of events in 1984 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.

The year's highest-grossing film in the United States and Canada was Beverly Hills Cop. Ghostbusters overtook it, however, with a re-release the following year. It was the first time in five years that the top-grossing film did not involve George Lucas or Steven Spielberg although Spielberg directed and Lucas executive produced/co-wrote the third placed Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom; Spielberg also executive produced the fourth placed Gremlins.[1]

U.S. box office grosses reached $4 billion for the first time and it was the first year that two films had returned over $100 million to their distributors with both Ghostbusters and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom achieving this.[1] Beverly Hills Cop made it three for films released in 1984 after its performance during 1985 took it to rentals of $108 million.[2] Other popular films included The NeverEnding Story, which was the most expensive film produced in West Germany, The Karate Kid and Romancing the Stone. A high number of sci-fi/fantasy films were released in 1984.

Highest-grossing films

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United States

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The top ten 1984 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1984[3]
RankTitleDistributorBox-office gross
1 Beverly Hills Cop Paramount $234,760,478
2 Ghostbusters Columbia $229,242,989
3 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Paramount $179,870,271
4 Gremlins Warner Bros. $153,083,102
5 The Karate Kid Columbia $90,815,558[4][5][6]
6 Police Academy Warner Bros. $81,198,894
7 Footloose Paramount $80,035,402
8 Romancing the Stone 20th Century Fox $76,572,238
9 Star Trek III: The Search for Spock Paramount $76,471,076
10 Splash Buena Vista $69,821,334

International

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International marketTitleDirectorProduction countryRevenueAdmissionsSource(s)
Brazil Gremlins Joe Dante United States $1,505,985 N/a [7]
France Marche à l'ombre Michel Blanc France N/a 6,168,425 [8]
Hong Kong Aces Go Places 3 Tsui Hark Hong Kong HK$29,286,077 N/a [9]
India Tohfa K. Raghavendra Rao India ₹90,000,000 N/a [10]
Italy Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Steven Spielberg United States N/a 838,309 [11]
Japan Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Steven Spielberg United States ¥3,200,000,000 N/a [12]
South Korea Project A Jackie Chan Hong Kong ₩1,189,308,000 396,436 [13][14][15]
Soviet Union Disco Dancer Babbar Subhash India $75,900,000 60,900,000 [n 3][19]
Spain Gremlins Joe Dante United States $4,255,642 3,202,047 [20][7]
United States and Canada Beverly Hills Cop Martin Brest United States $234,760,478 67,150,000 [21]
West Germany Police Academy Hugh Wilson United States N/a 5,187,443 [22]

Events

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1984 films

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By country/region

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By genre/medium

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Births

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Deaths

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MonthDateNameAgeCountryProfessionNotable films
January 6Ernest Laszlo85HungaryCinematographer
7Walter Forde85UKDirector
11Jack La Rue70USActor
20Johnny Weissmuller79USActor
29Frances Goodrich93USScreenwriter
February 11Arlette Marchal82FranceActress
15Ethel Merman76USSinger, Actress
17Lucille Benson69USActress
29Kenneth Strickfaden87USSet Designer
March 1Jackie Coogan69USActor
1Ronald Culver83UKActor
4William E. Snyder82USCinematographer
5William Powell91USActor
6Henry Wilcoxon78DominicaActor
10I. S. Johar64IndiaActor
18Paul Francis Webster76USLyricist
20Richard L. Van Enger69USFilm Editor
21Sam Leavitt80USCinematographer
24Sam Jaffe93USActor
27Jack Donohue75USDirector, Choreographer
27Derek Francis60UKActor
28Carmen Dragon69USComposer
April 1George Glass73USProducer
2William C. Thomas80USProducer, Director
7Samuel G. Engel79USProducer, Screenwriter
10Ray Middleton77USActor
13Richard Hurndall73UKActor
14Thorold Dickinson80UKDirector, Film Editor
15Glen MacWilliams85USCinematographer
16Byron Haskin84USDirector
18Francis de Wolff71UKActor
18John Lee Mahin81USScreenwriter
25Richard Benedict64ItalyActor
26May McAvoy84USActress
May 4Diana Dors52UKActress
10Robert Moore57USDirector
12Ben Roberts68USScreenwriter
13Antonio Castillo75SpainCostume Designer
16Andy Kaufman35USActor
16Irwin Shaw71USScreenwriter
20Peter Bull72UKActor
21Andrea Leeds72USActress
21Ann Little93USActress
22John Marley76USActor
28D'Urville Martin45USActor, Director
June 1Ruthelma Stevens80USActress
15Ned Glass78PolandActor
17Leslie I. Carey88USSound Engineer
17Nobuo Nakagawa79JapanDirector, Screenwriter
18Luis Moglia Barth81ArgentinaDirector, Screenwriter
19Sunny Johnson30USActress
20Estelle Winwood101UKActress
22Joseph Losey75USDirector
24William Keighley94USDirector
26Carl Foreman69USScreenwriter, Producer
30Lillian Hellman79USScreenwriter
July 2Lenore Coffee87USScreenwriter
7Flora Robson82UKActress
11Hugh Morton81UKActor
14Ernest Tidyman56USScreenwriter
23Lloyd Gough76USActor
23Anthony Sharp69UKActor
24Vincent Beck59USActor
25Akihiko Hirata56JapanActor
26Roger H. Lewis66USProducer
27James Mason75UKActor
29Woodrow Parfrey61USActor
August 2Quirino Cristiani88ArgentinaDirector
4Walter Burke75USActor
4Mary Miles Minter82USActress
5Richard Burton58UKActor
5Roland Kibbee70USScreenwriter
8Richard Deacon63USActor
14J. B. Priestley89UKScreenwriter
19George Meeker80USActor
25Truman Capote59USScreenwriter, Actor
25Henry Lynn89USDirector, Screenwriter
29Pina Menichelli94ItalyActress
30Emil Newman73USComposer
September 3Arthur Schwartz83USComposer, Producer
6E. J. André76USActor
9Yılmaz Güney47StatelessDirector, Screenwriter, Actor
11William Sands61USFilm Editor
14Janet Gaynor77USActress
17Richard Basehart70USActor
19June Preisser64USActress
24Neil Hamilton85USActor
25Walter Pidgeon87CanadaActor
October 9Joan Young84UKActress
10Leonard Rossiter57UKActor
11H. Bruce Humberstone82USDirector
16Peggy Ann Garner52USActress
21François Truffaut52FranceDirector, Screenwriter, Actor
23Oskar Werner61AustriaActor
24Walter Woolf King84USActor
24Edith Massey66USActress
25Pascale Ogier25FranceActress
30June Duprez66UKActress
31Eduardo De Filippo84ItalyActor, Screenwriter, Director
November 1Norman Krasna74USScreenwriter, Director
3Milo Anderson75USCostume Designer
7George Mathews73USActor
13Dorothy Arnold66USActress
20Peter Welch62UKActor
December 2Harry Sukman72USComposer
7Jeanne Cagney65USActress
8Luther Adler81USActor
11Robert E. Kent73USScreenwriter
11George Waggner81USDirector
13Margaret Livingston89USActress
19Edward Carrere78MexicoArt Director
24Ian Hendry53UKActor
24Peter Lawford61UKActor
24Harry Waxman72UKCinematographer
28Sam Peckinpah59USDirector, Screenwriter
29Leo Robin84USSongwriter

Film debuts

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Notes

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  1. ↑ Disco Dancer: 60 million Soviet rubles in 1984,[16] 0.791 rubles per US dollar in 1984[17]
  2. ↑ 12.43 Indian rupees per US dollar in 1984[18]
  3. ↑ Disco Dancer in Soviet Union: US$75.9 million[n 1] (₹94.34 crore)[n 2] in 1984

References

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  1. 1 2 "'Ghostbusters' Tops Comedies". Variety. January 16, 1985. p. 16.
  2. ↑ "Nobody Climbed $100-Mil Mountain". Variety. January 1986.
  3. ↑ "1984 Domestic Grosses". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  4. ↑ Thomas, Bob (November 6, 1985). "The Karate Kid Returns". AP News. Associated Press. Retrieved 8 June 2020. It is the film location for Columbia Pictures' "Karate Kid II," a sequel to Hollywood's biggest sleeper of 1984. "The Karate Kid" surprised almost everyone by amassing a domestic gross of $100 million. That's phenomenal for a modest film with no stars and a title that sounded like a combination of Bruce Lee and a kidflick.
  5. ↑ Siskel, Gene (15 June 1986). "Ralph Macchio's Baby Face Can't Mask Maturing Talent". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  6. ↑ Hurlburt, Roger (20 June 1986). "'Karate Kid II' Kayos Legacy Of Predecessor". Sun-Sentinel. Archived from the original on 2020-09-21. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  7. 1 2 "'Gremlins' Hits In Int'l Marts". Daily Variety. February 15, 1985. p. 43. highest-grossing film ever by WB in Iberia, taking in $4,255,642
    $1,505,985 in five weeks of release, making it the highest-grossing film [in Brazil] in 1984
  8. ↑ "Bilan Annuel France - 1984". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  9. ↑ "Hong Kong Film Archive". Hong Kong Film Archive. Archived from the original on 24 July 2020. Retrieved 26 April 2019.
  10. ↑ "Box Office 1984". Box Office India. Archived from the original on 15 January 2013. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
  11. ↑ "Bilan Annuel Italie - 1984". JP's Box-Office. Archived from the original on 24 July 2020. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  12. ↑ "1984年（1月～12月）". Eiren. Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  13. ↑ "【ジャッキーチェン興行成績】 第10回：韓国での興行収入". KungFu Tube (in Japanese). 5 September 2010. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
  14. ↑ "KOFIC 영화관 입장권 통합전산망". Korean Film Council (in Korean). September 2018. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
  15. ↑ Park, Seung Hyun (2000). A Cultural Interpretation of Korean Cinema, 1988-1997. Indiana University. p. 119. Average Ticket Prices in Korea, 1974-1997 [...] * Source: Korea Cinema Yearbook (1997-1998) * Currency: won [...] Foreign [...] 1984 [...] 3,000
  16. ↑ Bollywood returns to Russian screens [dead link], Russia Beyond the Headlines, September 2009
  17. ↑ Archive of Bank of Russia http://cbr.ru/currency_base/OldDataFiles/USD.xls
  18. ↑ "Reserve Bank of India - Publications". Archived from the original on 2014-08-21. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  19. ↑ Indian Films in Soviet Cinemas: The Culture of Movie-going After Stalin, page 211, Indiana University Press, 2005
  20. ↑ "Bilan Annuel Espagne - 1984". JP's Box-Office. Archived from the original on 16 December 2018. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  21. ↑ "Beverly Hills Cop (1984)". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on 2018-12-15. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  22. ↑ "Bilan Annuel Allemagne - 1984". JP's Box-Office. Archived from the original on 15 December 2018. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  23. ↑ "Tootsie". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 30, 2018.
  24. ↑ "Ghostbusters". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 30, 2018.
  25. ↑ "Beverly Hills Cop". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 30, 2018.
  26. ↑ "Ghostbusters". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 30, 2018.
  27. ↑ Meddy Mulisa (April 8, 2012). "Tanzania: Kanumba's Mother - My Son Was the Most Precious Gift". Tanzania Daily News. Retrieved December 6, 2021.
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