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1 Events

• April 7 - Star Wars fans begin lining up at movie theaters in Westwood and Hollywood to buy tickets for Star Wars, Episode I - The Phantom Menace, a film that will not be opening for another six weeks.
• May 3 - A Durham, North Carolina woman named Jennifer Briggs changes her name to Obi-Wan Kenobi Briggs in honor of the Star Wars character. Ms. Briggs wins $1000 from a local radio station for changing her name.

2 Top grossing films

1. Star Wars, Episode I - The Phantom Menace: $431,088,297
2. The Sixth Sense, starring Bruce Willis and Haley Joel OsmentHaley Joel Osment (born April 10, 1988) is a well known child actor. He began acting at the age of six, when he tried out for a Pizza Hut commercial in a shopping mall. The commercial launched his career and he landed his first television role later that: $293,506,292
3. Toy Story 2Toy Story 2 is a computer-generated imagery (CGI) animation film and the sequel to Toy Story, which featured the adventures of a group of toys that come to life when no one is around to see them. Like the first film, Toy Story 2 was produced by Walt Disne: $245,852,179
4. , starring Mike MyersMichael Myers (born May 25, 1963 in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada) is an actor, comedian, screenwriter, and motion picture producer. One of Myers' first acting jobs was with Saturday Night Live star Gilda Radner in a TV commercial when he was nine years ol: $206,040,086
5. The MatrixThis article is about the film The Matrix, for other usages of the term, see Matrix. The Matrix is a film first released in the USA on March 31, 1999, written and directed by the Wachowski brothers (Andy and Larry). It stars Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishbur: $171,479,930
6. TarzanTarzan a character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, first appeared in the 1914 novel Tarzan of the Apes and then in twenty-three sequels. The Tarzan story Tarzan is the orphaned son of aristocratic English parents marooned in Africa in the late 1800s.: $171,091,819
7. Big DaddyBig Daddy is a film which came in theaters on June 25, 1999. Starring Adam Sandler. Sonny ( Adam Sandler) adopts a 5-year old child born from Toronto and moved to Buffalo. Prospective parents everywhere, you have a new role model: Adam Sandler! In Big Dad: $163,479,795
8. The MummyThe Mummy is a 1999 movie written and directed by Stephen Sommers and starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz, with Arnold Vosloo as the reanimated mummy of the title. It is a loose remake of The Mummy ( 1932), which starred Boris Karloff as the mummy.: $155,385,488
9. Runaway Bride , starring Richard Gere and Julia Roberts: $152,257,509
10. The Blair Witch Project: $140,539,099
11. Stuart Little: $140,035,367
12. The Green Mile: $136,801,374
13. American Beauty: $130,096,601
14. The World Is Not Enough: $126,943,684
15. Double Jeopardy: $116,741,558

21 movies in 1999 grossed over $100 million.