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Market Share for Each Distributor in 1996

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Note: This chart ranks distributors by the amount they earned at the domestic box office 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.

Top Grossing of 1996

RankDistributorMovies1996 GrossTicketsShare
1 Walt Disney 37 $1,197,737,813 270,981,385 20.76%
2 Warner Bros. 29 $909,986,902 205,879,375 15.77%
3 Paramount Pictures 24 $740,924,146 167,629,885 12.84%
4 20th Century Fox 16 $731,004,909 165,385,717 12.67%
5 Sony Pictures 39 $613,455,899 138,790,908 10.63%
6 Universal 18 $482,379,703 109,135,672 8.36%
7 New Line 20 $297,962,883 67,412,408 5.16%
8 MGM 19 $292,208,554 66,110,524 5.06%
9 Miramax 40 $243,647,983 55,123,957 4.22%
10 Gramercy 14 $83,450,697 18,880,240 1.45%
11 Sony Pictures Classics 17 $40,200,823 9,095,201 0.70%
12 Orion Pictures 5 $35,023,932 7,923,964 0.61%
13 Miramax/Dimension 1 $25,728,961 5,821,031 0.45%
14 Fox Searchlight 4 $19,043,456 4,308,473 0.33%
15 Goldwyn Entertainment 7 $15,985,241 3,616,567 0.28%
16 October Films 9 $10,776,486 2,438,114 0.19%
17 Fine Line 7 $9,076,896 2,053,595 0.16%
18 First Look 4 $4,545,458 1,028,382 0.08%
19 BET Pictures 1 $2,291,255 518,383 0.04%
20 Warren Miller Entertainment 1 $2,035,470 460,513 0.04%
21 Kit Parker Films 1 $1,229,715 278,216 0.02%
22 Cinepix Film Properties 5 $1,185,497 268,209 0.02%
23 Orion Classics 2 $1,080,501 244,456 0.02%
24 Northern Arts Entertainment 4 $974,407 220,453 0.02%
25 Lionsgate 1 $852,362 192,842 0.01%
26 FM Entertainment International 1 $684,351 154,830 0.01%
27 Alliance Atlantis 1 $575,001 130,090 0.01%
28 Filmopolis Pictures 1 $555,900 125,769 0.01%
29 Rainbow Releasing 1 $510,271 115,445 0.01%
30 Palm Pictures 1 $443,579 100,357 0.01%
31 Columbia 1 $378,678 85,673 0.01%
32 New Yorker 2 $343,987 77,824 0.01%
33 Artistic License 1 $337,560 76,371 0.01%
34 Discovery/IMAX 1 $321,070 72,640 0.01%
35 Strand Releasing 3 $314,602 71,176 0.01%
36 Roxie Releasing 1 $295,493 66,853 0.01%
37 Legacy Releasing 3 $269,399 60,949 0.00%
38 Paulist Pictures 1 $225,161 50,941 0.00%
39 Seventh Art Releasing 1 $209,935 47,496 0.00%
40 Savoy 1 $197,322 44,642 0.00%
41 Spelling Films 1 $185,170 41,893 0.00%
42 PFM 1 $19,982 4,520 0.00%
43 PlanePlanet Pictures 1 $8,868 2,006 0.00%
44 Trimark 1 $5,000 1,131 0.00%
45 Kino International 1 $5,000 1,131 0.00%
46 Castle Hill Productions 1 $5,000 1,131 0.00%
47 JeTi Films 1 $527 119 0.00%

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