Editing 1990 in film (section)

==Events==
* March 2 - ''[[The Hunt for Red October (film)|The Hunt for Red October]]'' is released. It is the first film in [[Tom Clancy]]'s ''[[Jack Ryan (franchise)|Jack Ryan]]'' franchise and is met with critical and blockbuster commercial success.
* March 23 – ''[[Pretty Woman]]'' is released and grosses $463 million, making [[Julia Roberts]] a worldwide star.
* March 30 – ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990 film)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' is released to massive box office success. At the time, it is the highest-grossing independent film in history.
* May 25 – [[Universal Pictures]] unveils a new opening logo with music composed by [[James Horner]], which debuts on ''[[Back to the Future Part III]]''. It is the first change to the Universal opening logo in 27 years.
* June 1  – [[Timeline of CGI in film and television|CGI technique]] is expanded with [[motion capture]] for [[Computer-generated imagery|CGI]] characters, used in ''[[Total Recall (1990 film)|Total Recall]]''.
* June 15 – Following a massive media and marketing blitz, ''[[Dick Tracy (1990 film)|Dick Tracy]]'' is released. [[Walt Disney Studios (division)|Walt Disney Studios]] chairman [[Jeffrey Katzenberg]] expressed disappointment in a studio memo that noted that the film had cost about $100 million in total to produce, market and promote and with its disappointing performance claimed "We made demands on our time, talent and treasury that, upon reflection, may not have been worth it".
* June 22 – The use of real-time [[computer graphics]] or "[[digital puppetry]]" to create a character in a motion picture is performed, in ''[[RoboCop 2]]''.
* July 4 – The first digitally-manipulated [[matte painting]] is used, in ''[[Die Hard 2]]''.
* July 13 - ''[[Ghost (1990 film)|Ghost]]'', starring [[Patrick Swayze]], [[Demi Moore]] and [[Whoopi Goldberg]], is released and grosses $506 million, making it the third highest-grossing movie at the time.
* November 9 – [[Kevin Costner]]'s directorial debut, ''[[Dances with Wolves]]'', is released. It later earns twelve [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] nominations and wins seven, including [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]] and [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]] for Costner.
* November 16
** ''[[Home Alone]]'' is released. It spends twelve consecutive weeks at number one on the United States box office, becoming both the highest-grossing film of the year and the [[List of highest-grossing comedy films|highest-grossing comedy of all-time]].
**''[[The Rescuers Down Under]]'' is considered as the first fully digital film ever made.
* December 24 – [[Tom Cruise]] and [[Nicole Kidman]] marry.
* ''[[Buchwald v. Paramount]]'' decided, a leading case on the financial rewards due to writers of [[film treatment]]s.