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After completing ' Awakenings', Penny was offered a production deal. Jon Peters and Peter Guber worked for Sony Pictures Entertainment. Sony's movie division acquired Columbia Pictures from the Coca Cola Company for $ 3.4 billion. Dawn Steel was replaced by Frank Price. Penny liked Frank Price. Price liked Penny. Sony promised Penny as part of her deal, she could make her baseball film. Sony paid $ 7 million to release ' A League Of Their Own' from Fox.

' Awakenings' opened in Jan 1991. It grossed $ 52 million in ticket sales. Reviews were mixed. It turned out that at the 1991 Oscars, Penny was not nominated for Best Director. ' Awakenings' was nominated for Best Picture. Robert DeNiro was nominated for Best Actor. Robin Williams was not.

Penny did find out that her ex husband's film ' Misery' was to come out the same day as her film. Penny called her ex husband Rob Reiner and stopped it from happening. ' Misery' debuted in November 1990. It made $ 61 million. Actress Kathy Bates was acclaimed for her role of a deranged fan who kidnaps a bestselling author. 

After Jan 1991, Penny was now ready to begin her next film. It was called ' A League Of Their Own'.

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