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Events on Friday 24 July 1998 2
1998Armageddon#1 film of 1998 — $553m worldwideDirected by Michael Bay, starring Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck. A team of oil drillers is sent to space to destroy an asteroid threatening Earth.
1998Saving Private RyanSpielberg's WWII masterpiece — $482mDirected by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Hanks. Following the D-Day invasion, a group of soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed.