Box Office Performance for Sony Pictures Movies in 1996

Rank	Movie	Genre	MPAA	1996 Gross	Tickets Sold	Inflation- Adjusted Gross
1	Jerry Maguire	Romantic Comedy	R	$60,351,092	13,654,093	$107,730,794
2	The Cable Guy	Comedy	PG-13	$60,154,431	13,609,600	$107,379,744
3	Jumanji	Adventure	PG	$42,609,673	9,640,198	$76,061,162
4	The Mirror Has Two Faces	Romantic Comedy	PG-13	$40,359,524	9,131,114	$72,044,489
5	Sense and Sensibility	Drama	PG	$38,628,080	8,739,385	$68,953,748
6	Matilda	Comedy	PG	$33,084,249	7,485,124	$59,057,628
7	Striptease	Comedy	R	$32,758,418	7,411,407	$58,476,001
8	The Craft	Thriller/Suspense	R	$24,703,049	5,588,925	$44,096,618
9	Fly Away Home	Drama	PG	$24,268,760	5,490,670	$43,321,386
10	The Juror	Thriller/Suspense	R	$22,079,985	4,995,472	$39,414,274
11	High School High	Comedy	PG-13	$20,694,213	4,681,949	$36,940,578
12	City Hall	Drama	R	$20,231,760	4,577,321	$36,115,063
13	Multiplicity	Comedy	PG-13	$20,101,861	4,547,932	$35,883,183
14	The Fan	Thriller/Suspense	R	$18,406,215	4,164,302	$32,856,343
15	Extreme Measures	Drama	R	$17,369,541	3,929,760	$31,005,806
16	Maximum Risk	Action	R	$14,039,438	3,176,343	$25,061,346
17	The Spitfire Grill	Drama	PG-13	$12,592,203	2,848,915	$22,477,939
18	Alaska	Adventure	PG	$11,500,372	2,601,894	$20,528,944
19	Sunset Park	Drama	R	$10,128,314	2,291,474	$18,079,730
20	Mrs. Winterbourne	Romantic Comedy	PG-13	$10,039,566	2,271,395	$17,921,307
21	The American President	Romantic Comedy	PG-13	$8,954,209	2,025,839	$15,983,870
22	Screamers	Action	R	$5,701,359	1,289,900	$10,177,311
23	Get on the Bus	Drama	R	$5,660,056	1,280,556	$10,103,587
24	Mary Reilly	Drama	R	$5,615,008	1,270,364	$10,023,172
25	Solo	Action	PG-13	$4,932,915	1,116,044	$8,805,587
26	To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday	Drama	PG-13	$4,137,645	936,119	$7,385,979
27	Dracula: Dead and Loving It	Comedy	PG-13	$2,357,406	533,350	$4,208,132
28	If Lucy Fell	Romantic Comedy	R	$2,202,580	498,321	$3,931,753
29	Othello	Drama	R	$1,967,708	445,183	$3,512,494
30	Race the Sun	Drama	PG	$1,681,685	380,472	$3,001,924
31	Money Train	Action	R	$645,715	146,089	$1,152,642
32	Ghosts of Mississippi	Drama	PG-13	$540,898	122,375	$965,539
33	The People vs. Larry Flynt	Drama	R	$523,295	118,393	$934,121
34	Bottle Rocket	Adventure	R	$407,488	92,192	$727,395
35	The Last Supper	Comedy	R	$259,930	58,808	$463,995
36	Hamlet	Drama	PG-13	$148,321	33,557	$264,765
37	To Die For	Black Comedy	R	$129,303	29,254	$230,814
38	Some Mother's Son	Drama	R	$114,309	25,862	$204,051
39	For Better or Worse	Comedy		$41,628	9,418	$74,308
40	Glory Daze	Comedy		$5,000	1,131	$8,924
Total Gross of All Movies				$580,127,202
Total Tickets Sold					131,250,500
Total Gross of All Movies at 2008 ticket prices						$1,035,566,445

Note: This chart ranks movies by the amount they earned during 1996. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money during 1996. For example, a movie released over Thanksgiving in 1995 will most likely earn money in 1995 and 1996. Click on the individual movie to see its total gross over all the years in which it played.

Each box office year ends on the first Sunday of the following year. The next year starts the following day (Monday). For example, the "2004 box office year" ended on Sunday, January 2, 2005.

Inflation-adjusted figures are based ticket sale estimates, and may not be precise due to rounding errors.