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Market Share for Each Distributor in 1998

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Note: This chart ranks distributors by the amount they earned at the domestic box office during 1998. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money during 1998. For example, a movie released over Thanksgiving in 1997 will most likely earn money in 1997 and 1998.

Top Grossing of 1998

RankDistributorMovies1998 GrossTicketsShare
1 Walt Disney 28 $1,109,009,676 236,462,602 16.27%
2 Paramount Pictures 19 $1,090,885,454 232,598,168 16.01%
3 Warner Bros. 31 $758,468,077 161,720,256 11.13%
4 20th Century Fox 19 $729,639,504 155,573,445 10.71%
5 Sony Pictures 37 $684,267,457 145,899,229 10.04%
6 New Line 17 $518,917,489 110,643,379 7.61%
7 Dreamworks SKG 7 $467,963,255 99,778,942 6.87%
8 Universal 19 $400,605,109 85,416,858 5.88%
9 Miramax 40 $394,840,826 84,187,789 5.79%
10 MGM 16 $189,039,838 40,306,995 2.77%
11 Polygram 6 $100,959,041 21,526,446 1.48%
12 MacGillivray Freeman Films 1 $66,877,098 14,259,509 0.98%
13 Sony/TriStar 3 $58,993,028 12,578,470 0.87%
14 Sony Pictures Classics 20 $45,583,526 9,719,292 0.67%
15 Gramercy 11 $44,117,000 9,406,604 0.65%
16 October Films 11 $28,822,836 6,145,588 0.42%
17 Fox Searchlight 8 $23,155,177 4,937,134 0.34%
18 Artisan 8 $22,476,640 4,792,457 0.33%
19 Trimark 9 $14,015,798 2,988,438 0.21%
20 Fine Line 8 $12,620,908 2,691,021 0.19%
21 Lionsgate 15 $9,176,891 1,956,687 0.13%
22 Live Film & Mediaworks 1 $6,754,958 1,440,289 0.10%
23 Discovery/IMAX 1 $4,119,728 878,406 0.06%
24 First Look 2 $3,637,502 775,585 0.05%
25 IMAX Films 2 $3,526,086 751,830 0.05%
26 Live Entertainment 2 $3,389,614 722,731 0.05%
27 Distributor Unknown 1 $2,750,686 586,500 0.04%
28 Warren Miller Entertainment 1 $2,750,064 586,367 0.04%
29 Stratosphere Entertainment 4 $2,643,035 563,545 0.04%
30 Good Machine Releasing 1 $2,635,624 561,966 0.04%
31 Strand Releasing 9 $1,451,670 309,520 0.02%
32 Legacy Releasing 7 $1,320,828 281,623 0.02%
33 Alliance Atlantis 2 $1,065,180 227,116 0.02%
34 New Yorker 6 $952,098 203,003 0.01%
35 Rainbow Releasing 1 $821,997 175,265 0.01%
36 Rialto Pictures 1 $752,045 160,350 0.01%
37 Goldwyn Entertainment 2 $574,877 122,574 0.01%
38 Artistic License 4 $554,686 118,268 0.01%
39 Roxie Releasing 1 $441,808 94,202 0.01%
40 Orion Pictures 2 $422,709 90,129 0.01%
41 Zeitgeist 6 $358,641 76,467 0.01%
42 First Run Features 4 $348,168 74,234 0.01%
43 Leisure Time Features 1 $316,872 67,563 0.00%
44 RS Entertainment 1 $189,635 40,433 0.00%
45 Palm Pictures 1 $126,722 27,019 0.00%
46 Kino International 3 $87,464 18,648 0.00%
47 Atlantic 1 $84,744 18,069 0.00%
48 Phaedra Cinema 1 $62,626 13,353 0.00%
49 Empire Pictures 1 $56,158 11,973 0.00%
50 Northern Arts Entertainment 3 $29,265 6,239 0.00%
51 Castle Hill Productions 5 $28,590 6,094 0.00%
52 Attitude Films 1 $16,556 3,530 0.00%
53 Cowboy Pictures 1 $15,631 3,332 0.00%
54 WinStar Cinema 1 $5,951 1,268 0.00%
55 Avalanche Releasing 1 $5,000 1,066 0.00%
56 Margin Films 1 $2,194 467 0.00%
57 Shadow 1 $783 166 0.00%

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