A Look at What’s in Store for Business and Workers : It won’t be dull, that’s for sure. The new year will see dramatic changes for U.S. industry and the American worker. Business writers at The Times polled experts on what is likely to happen in 1989. Here is their report. : ENTERTAINMENT

The coming year will see a resurgence of the boom in overseas markets for U.S. entertainment firms that produce and distribute English-language movies and television programs. This will help the independent producers, as well as the majors, who get a bigger slice of the pie from the European deregulation and consequent expansion of television broadcasting systems.

Despite the overseas bonanza, independent producers probably will continue to suffer a squeeze on their ability to obtain financing from a Wall Street made warier by the well-publicized woes of some players such as De Laurentiis Entertainment.

In 1989, as in the last year, large Japanese and European entities will continue shopping for a major Hollywood studio of their very own. Those subject to interest by such shoppers in recent months have included MGM/UA or Columbia Pictures.

Meanwhile, larger studios can take comfort in new growth in domestic markets for television films and other programming, partly because of fatter profit margins of U.S. basic cable networks in 1989. Also expected in the new year is a continuation of the trend of consolidated U.S. motion picture theater ownership into fewer hands.