Box Office History for Creative Type - Dramatization

Ticket Sales and Market Share History

	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012

Top Grossing Movies 1977 - 2012, Adjusted for Ticket Price Inflation

	Movie	Distributor	Release Date	Total Gross	Inflation-Adjusted Gross
1	The Ten Commandments		10/5/1956	$80,000,000	$1,270,020,123
2	Cleopatra	20th Century Fox	6/12/1963	$48,000,000	$445,552,939
3	The Longest Day	20th Century Fox	10/4/1962	$39,100,000	$440,712,858
4	Lawrence of Arabia	Sony Pictures	12/16/1962	$37,495,385	$422,626,556
5	Spartacus	Universal	10/7/1960	$30,000,000	$343,043,479
6	Bonnie and Clyde	Warner Bros.	8/13/1967	$50,700,000	$333,352,500
7	Apollo 13	Universal	6/30/1995	$172,070,496	$312,038,367
8	The Perfect Storm	Warner Bros.	6/30/2000	$182,618,434	$267,320,861
9	The Blind Side	Warner Bros.	11/20/2009	$255,959,475	$266,800,232
10	Papillon	Allied Artists	12/16/1973	$53,267,000	$237,444,422
11	A Beautiful Mind	Universal	12/21/2001	$170,708,996	$232,491,356
12	Catch Me if You Can	Dreamworks SKG	12/25/2002	$164,606,800	$218,931,389
13	Mulan	Walt Disney Pictures	6/19/1998	$120,620,254	$202,916,677
14	The Pursuit of Happyness	Sony Pictures	12/15/2006	$162,586,036	$192,492,433
15	Schindler's List	Universal	12/15/1993	$96,067,179	$184,496,462
16	Erin Brockovich	Universal	3/17/2000	$125,548,685	$183,780,910
17	The Prince of Egypt	Dreamworks SKG	12/18/1998	$101,413,188	$165,775,985
18	Marley & Me	20th Century Fox	12/25/2008	$143,153,751	$155,598,777
19	The Untouchables	Paramount Pictures	6/3/1987	$76,270,454	$152,814,325
20	American Gangster	Universal	11/2/2007	$130,164,645	$149,224,533
21	Chariots of Fire	Warner Bros.	9/25/1981	$57,159,946	$148,562,806
22	Black Hawk Down	Sony Pictures	12/28/2001	$108,638,745	$147,541,659
23	Walk the Line	20th Century Fox	11/18/2005	$119,519,402	$146,401,349
24	The King's Speech	Weinstein Co.	11/26/2010	$138,797,449	$137,778,541
25	Braveheart	Paramount Pictures	5/24/1995	$75,545,647	$136,779,249
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	22	6.50%	$343,901,392	79,057,792	$543,917,609	Apollo 13	$172,036,360
1996	22	3.23%	$180,447,319	40,825,184	$280,877,266	Sleepers	$52,420,458
1997	20	5.28%	$343,723,278	74,885,245	$515,210,486	Evita	$49,660,364
1998	21	4.82%	$326,781,199	69,676,164	$479,372,008	Mulan	$120,618,403
1999	21	3.41%	$248,702,582	48,957,200	$336,825,536	The Thin Red Line	$35,365,325
2000	24	6.92%	$517,958,312	96,096,165	$661,141,615	The Perfect Storm	$182,618,434
2001	19	2.43%	$197,588,459	34,909,621	$240,178,192	Blow	$52,964,509
2002	18	5.65%	$518,727,947	89,281,919	$614,259,603	A Beautiful Mind	$152,149,450
2003	18	2.50%	$233,581,930	38,736,639	$266,508,076	Catch Me if You Can	$92,948,800
2004	34	4.09%	$378,841,597	61,005,086	$419,714,992	The Terminal	$77,032,279
2005	46	6.48%	$579,485,734	90,403,389	$621,975,316	Walk the Line	$92,436,258
2006	46	7.79%	$720,570,209	110,010,720	$756,873,754	The Pursuit of Happyness	$104,510,417
2007	59	6.16%	$593,029,662	86,196,172	$593,029,663	American Gangster	$129,150,735
2008	46	3.90%	$384,047,474	53,488,503	$368,000,901	Marley & Me	$106,664,046
2009	28	5.18%	$551,671,151	73,556,155	$506,066,346	The Blind Side	$208,476,067
2010	42	4.13%	$432,994,492	54,878,894	$377,566,791	The Social Network	$93,222,026
2011	48	5.34%	$544,001,053	68,341,839	$470,191,852	The King's Speech	$115,865,048
2012	11	6.53%	$60,961,281	7,658,452	$52,690,150	We Bought a Zoo	$28,230,442

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