Box Office History for Creative Type - Contemporary Fiction

Ticket Sales and Market Share History

	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008

Top Grossing Movies 1977 - 2008, Adjusted for Ticket Price Inflation

	Movie	Distributor	Release Date	Total Gross	Inflation-Adjusted Gross
1	Home Alone	20th Century Fox	11/16/1990	$285,761,243	$466,403,222
2	Beverly Hills Cop	Paramount Pictures	12/5/1984	$234,760,478	$464,191,048
3	Saturday Night Fever	Paramount Pictures	12/16/1977	$139,486,124	$430,342,837
4	The Sixth Sense	Buena Vista	8/6/1999	$293,506,292	$397,650,598
5	Tootsie	Sony Pictures	12/17/1982	$177,200,000	$393,249,964
6	Smokey and the Bandit	Universal	5/27/1977	$126,737,428	$391,010,538
7	Twister	Warner Bros.	5/10/1996	$241,888,385	$376,514,048
8	Mrs. Doubtfire	20th Century Fox	11/24/1993	$219,195,243	$366,635,400
9	Top Gun	Paramount Pictures	5/16/1986	$176,786,701	$327,841,646
10	Crocodile Dundee	Paramount Pictures	9/26/1986	$174,803,506	$319,242,437
11	Every Which Way but Loose	Warner Bros.	12/20/1978	$104,268,727	$306,567,881
12	The Fugitive	Warner Bros.	8/6/1993	$183,875,760	$305,571,313
13	Meet the Fockers	Universal	12/22/2004	$279,167,575	$304,963,479
14	Jaws 2	Universal	6/16/1978	$102,922,376	$302,609,376
15	An Officer and a Gentleman	Paramount Pictures	7/28/1982	$129,795,554	$300,561,070
16	Rain Man	MGM	12/16/1988	$172,825,435	$295,867,279
17	Armageddon	Buena Vista	7/1/1998	$201,578,182	$295,705,310
18	Rocky 3	MGM	5/28/1982	$125,049,125	$292,631,966
19	Rambo: First Blood Part II	Sony/TriStar	5/22/1985	$150,415,432	$291,509,343
20	Cast Away	20th Century Fox	12/22/2000	$233,632,142	$290,936,665
21	Pretty Woman	Buena Vista	3/23/1990	$178,406,268	$290,861,405
22	3 Men and a Baby	Buena Vista	11/25/1987	$167,780,960	$288,045,696
23	Home Alone 2: Lost in New York	20th Century Fox	11/20/1992	$173,585,516	$287,886,892
24	My Big Fat Greek Wedding	IFC Films	4/19/2002	$241,437,427	$285,782,176
25	Mission: Impossible	Paramount Pictures	5/22/1996	$180,981,886	$281,709,361
Complete List

Year by Year Market Share

Year	Movies in Release	Market Share	Gross	Tickets Sold	Inflation- Adjusted Gross	Top-Grossing Movie	Gross that Year
1995	166	54.67%	$2,876,979,312	661,374,552	$4,550,256,918	Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls	$104,355,781
1996	160	61.36%	$3,539,669,611	800,830,230	$5,509,711,982	Twister	$241,888,385
1997	175	59.11%	$3,680,236,179	801,794,381	$5,516,345,341	Liar Liar	$181,410,615
1998	171	51.40%	$3,463,825,923	738,555,631	$5,081,262,741	Armageddon	$201,578,182
1999	168	56.36%	$4,150,296,541	820,216,704	$5,643,090,924	The Sixth Sense	$276,386,495
2000	193	52.45%	$3,911,092,251	725,620,080	$4,992,266,150	Mission: Impossible 2	$215,409,889
2001	182	54.75%	$4,448,842,692	787,405,785	$5,417,351,801	Rush Hour 2	$226,164,286
2002	201	45.01%	$4,204,779,923	724,962,062	$4,987,738,987	My Big Fat Greek Wedding	$227,898,505
2003	191	46.23%	$4,275,800,109	709,087,910	$4,878,524,821	Bad Boys II	$138,540,870
2004	174	43.90%	$4,076,249,370	655,345,562	$4,508,777,467	The Bourne Supremacy	$176,087,450
2005	171	47.76%	$4,229,866,182	659,885,522	$4,540,012,391	The Wedding Crashers	$209,218,368
2006	305	47.38%	$4,394,181,719	670,867,438	$4,615,567,973	The Da Vinci Code	$217,536,138
2007	365	43.45%	$4,171,589,757	606,335,728	$4,171,589,809	The Bourne Ultimatum	$227,471,070
2008	149	50.87%	$1,506,435,885	218,958,697	$1,506,435,835	Juno	$117,418,446

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