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Market Share for Each Distributor in 2010

Note: This chart ranks distributors by the amount they earned at the domestic box office during 2010. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money during 2010. For example, a movie released over Thanksgiving in 2009 will most likely earn money in 2009 and 2010.

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.

Top Grossing Distributors of 2010

RankDistributorMovies2010 GrossTicketsShare
1 Warner Bros. 32 $1,827,221,483 231,591,468 17.43%
2 20th Century Fox 20 $1,610,360,808 204,101,496 15.36%
3 Paramount Pictures 18 $1,565,124,841 198,368,166 14.93%
4 Walt Disney 17 $1,465,729,693 185,770,557 13.98%
5 Sony Pictures 24 $1,277,755,699 161,946,223 12.19%
6 Universal 19 $886,590,971 112,368,947 8.46%
7 Summit Entertainment 11 $519,928,031 65,897,088 4.96%
8 Lionsgate 16 $513,854,686 65,127,337 4.90%
9 Fox Searchlight 10 $159,610,478 20,229,464 1.52%
10 Overture Films 7 $81,612,865 10,343,837 0.78%
11 Sony Pictures Classics 27 $76,348,513 9,676,616 0.73%
12 Focus Features 8 $74,830,313 9,484,198 0.71%
13 CBS Films 3 $72,829,618 9,230,623 0.69%
14 MGM 1 $50,269,859 6,371,338 0.48%
15 Weinstein Co. 8 $40,757,597 5,165,729 0.39%
16 Weinstein/Dimension 2 $40,288,743 5,106,305 0.38%
17 Miramax 2 $27,990,098 3,547,541 0.27%
18 Paramount Vantage 3 $20,433,287 2,589,770 0.19%
19 Alliance Films 2 $15,834,309 2,006,883 0.15%
20 Apparition 4 $12,840,057 1,627,383 0.12%
21 Anchor Bay Entertainment 6 $11,540,302 1,462,649 0.11%
22 Samuel Goldwyn Films 8 $11,318,695 1,434,563 0.11%
23 Roadside Attractions 16 $10,113,768 1,281,848 0.10%
24 IFC Films 32 $9,188,728 1,164,606 0.09%
25 Magnolia Pictures 22 $8,667,644 1,098,560 0.08%
26 Eros Entertainment 8 $6,100,130 773,146 0.06%
27 UTV Communications 8 $5,988,725 759,028 0.06%
28 3D Entertainment 2 $5,656,423 716,910 0.05%
29 Relativity 1 $5,569,301 705,868 0.05%
30 National Geographic Entertainment 5 $4,868,058 616,991 0.05%
31 Big Pictures 3 $4,170,766 528,615 0.04%
32 Freestyle Releasing 11 $4,056,712 514,159 0.04%
33 Producers Distribution Agency 1 $3,291,250 417,142 0.03%
34 Vivendi Entertainment 1 $2,848,587 361,038 0.03%
35 B4U Movies 1 $2,276,427 288,521 0.02%
36 IMAX Films 1 $1,931,542 244,809 0.02%
37 Oscilloscope Pictures 9 $1,901,193 240,962 0.02%
38 Viva Entertainment 8 $1,639,053 207,740 0.02%
39 Music Box Films 6 $1,605,822 203,526 0.02%
40 Zeitgeist 7 $1,546,972 196,067 0.01%
41 Slowhand Cinema 1 $1,089,445 138,079 0.01%
42 First Run Features 17 $1,087,714 137,860 0.01%
43 Shorts International 1 $1,018,169 129,046 0.01%
44 Newmarket Films 2 $960,746 121,767 0.01%
45 Five & Two Pictures 2 $955,000 121,040 0.01%
46 Kino International 7 $939,192 119,035 0.01%
47 Lorber Films 11 $847,603 107,428 0.01%
48 Reliance Big Pictures 2 $745,459 94,482 0.01%
49 GKIDS 2 $705,913 89,469 0.01%
50 Rocky Mountain Pictures 2 $560,506 71,041 0.01%
51 Gener8xion Entertainment 1 $514,522 65,212 0.00%
52 Strand 16 $511,000 64,767 0.00%
53 CanZion Films 1 $493,470 62,544 0.00%
54 Hyde Park Films 1 $493,296 62,522 0.00%
55 Cinedigm 1 $485,913 61,586 0.00%
56 Self Distributed 4 $471,471 59,756 0.00%
57 Indican Pictures 9 $468,962 59,437 0.00%
58 Variance Films 8 $425,426 53,921 0.00%
59 Cinema Guild 7 $415,755 52,694 0.00%
60 Arthouse Films 3 $386,261 48,956 0.00%
61 Paladin 6 $376,699 47,744 0.00%
62 Argot Pictures 3 $307,097 38,922 0.00%
63 First Independent Pictures 2 $306,730 38,876 0.00%
64 Screen Media Films 2 $301,499 38,212 0.00%
65 Westchester Films 1 $297,351 37,687 0.00%
66 First Look 1 $269,021 34,096 0.00%
67 Hannover House 2 $249,002 31,560 0.00%
68 Abramorama Films 1 $246,078 31,189 0.00%
69 Drafthouse Films 1 $242,136 30,689 0.00%
70 Magnet Pictures 1 $237,301 30,076 0.00%
71 New Films Cinema 2 $236,442 29,967 0.00%
72 International Film Circuit 4 $214,275 27,158 0.00%
73 Moriah Films 1 $212,601 26,946 0.00%
74 7-57 Releasing 1 $210,625 26,695 0.00%
75 Cinema Libre 3 $191,977 24,331 0.00%
76 Monterey Media 6 $191,247 24,234 0.00%
77 Zipporah 2 $186,373 23,622 0.00%
78 China Lion Film Distribution 1 $182,517 23,133 0.00%
79 Studio 18 1 $165,873 21,023 0.00%
80 Janus Films 2 $154,668 19,603 0.00%
81 New Yorker 1 $151,258 19,171 0.00%
82 Area23a 2 $122,910 15,578 0.00%
83 Rainbow Releasing 2 $122,392 15,512 0.00%
84 TriBeca Films 1 $112,087 14,206 0.00%
85 CFI 1 $110,594 14,017 0.00%
86 Four of a Kind Productions 1 $106,524 13,501 0.00%
87 Balcony Releasing 2 $106,436 13,490 0.00%
88 Elephant Eye Films 2 $104,284 13,217 0.00%
89 IndieVest Pictures 1 $102,645 13,010 0.00%
90 Nocturnal Features 2 $92,560 11,731 0.00%
91 Vitagraph Films 2 $85,628 10,853 0.00%
92 Film Movement 7 $84,292 10,683 0.00%
93 Mangusta Productions 2 $80,571 10,211 0.00%
94 NeoClassics Films 1 $73,133 9,269 0.00%
95 Telepathic Studios 1 $70,066 8,880 0.00%
96 Bev Pictures 1 $69,047 8,751 0.00%
97 GR Films 1 $64,761 8,208 0.00%
98 The Film Collaborative 1 $64,158 8,132 0.00%
99 Here Films 1 $57,060 7,232 0.00%
100 Walking Shadows 1 $54,645 6,926 0.00%
101 Shadow 4 $54,039 6,849 0.00%
102 Collective Eye 1 $41,895 5,310 0.00%
103 United Artists 1 $40,249 5,101 0.00%
104 Regent Releasing 14 $39,473 5,003 0.00%
105 Image Entertainment 1 $39,033 4,947 0.00%
106 Morning Star Pictures 1 $31,858 4,038 0.00%
107 Icarus Films 1 $31,052 3,936 0.00%
108 GasLand Productions 1 $30,846 3,910 0.00%
109 Phase 4 Films 2 $30,178 3,825 0.00%
110 Truly Indie 1 $29,866 3,785 0.00%
111 New American Vision 1 $25,846 3,276 0.00%
112 Olive Films 4 $23,605 2,992 0.00%
113 Cabin Films 1 $22,539 2,857 0.00%
114 Alive Mind 1 $20,956 2,656 0.00%
115 People Pictures 1 $19,137 2,425 0.00%
116 The World According to Shorts 1 $15,651 1,984 0.00%
117 Artigo Ajemian Films 1 $15,628 1,981 0.00%
118 Typecast Releasing 1 $15,451 1,958 0.00%
119 MPI Media Group 1 $15,389 1,950 0.00%
120 The Film Desk 1 $13,632 1,728 0.00%
121 Cinema Purgatorio 3 $12,529 1,588 0.00%
122 Embrem Entertainment 1 $11,862 1,503 0.00%
123 The Little Film Company/Dada Films 1 $11,711 1,484 0.00%
124 Waterdog Films 1 $11,574 1,467 0.00%
125 The Kids Are Alright Productions/Variance Films 1 $11,183 1,417 0.00%
126 All Rise Films 1 $10,942 1,387 0.00%
127 Pallisades Tartan 1 $9,408 1,192 0.00%
128 Real Bean Entertainment 1 $7,137 905 0.00%
129 Brink Film 1 $6,607 837 0.00%
130 TLA Releasing 1 $5,980 758 0.00%
131 Winter Star Entertainment 1 $5,673 719 0.00%
132 Rockstone Releasing 1 $3,394 430 0.00%
133 Reel Diva Consultants 1 $2,240 284 0.00%
134 Millenium Entertainment 1 $1,981 251 0.00%
135 Seventh Art Releasing 1 $1,909 242 0.00%
136 CAVU Releasing 1 $1,780 226 0.00%
137 Eleven Arts 1 $1,226 155 0.00%
138 ArtMattan Productions 1 $245 31 0.00%
139 Driving With Our Eyes Shut 1 $112 14 0.00%