Box Office History for Creative Type - Factual

Ticket Sales and Market Share History

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

Top Grossing Movies 1977 - 2009, Adjusted for Ticket Price Inflation

	Movie	Distributor	Release Date	Total Gross	Inflation-Adjusted Gross
1	Fahrenheit 9/11	Lionsgate	6/23/2004	$119,114,517	$137,678,403
2	Everest	MacGillivray Freeman Films	3/6/1998	$87,178,599	$114,466,734
3	The Living Sea	MacGillivray Freeman Films	12/31/1995	$64,800,000	$106,957,243
4	Space Station	IMAX Films	4/19/2002	$80,164,958	$92,955,001
5	Anastasia	20th Century Fox	11/14/1997	$58,403,409	$91,018,268
6	March of the Penguins	Warner Independent	6/24/2005	$77,437,223	$86,712,243
7	Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip	Sony Pictures	3/12/1982	$34,970,309	$85,403,680
8	Eddie Murphy Raw	Paramount Pictures	12/18/1987	$50,504,655	$83,104,975
9	Jackass: Number Two	Paramount Pictures	9/22/2006	$72,778,712	$79,778,804
10	Beyond and Back		1/1/1978	$23,800,000	$73,027,349
11	Dolphins	MacGillivray Freeman Films	10/20/2000	$54,000,000	$71,933,211
12	Michael Jackson's This Is It	Sony Pictures	10/28/2009	$67,546,236	$67,190,296
13	Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour	Buena Vista	2/1/2008	$65,281,781	$65,281,781
14	Mysteries of Egypt	Sony Pictures	7/16/1998	$40,593,286	$62,144,946
15	The Original Kings of Comedy	Paramount Pictures	8/18/2000	$38,168,022	$50,843,490
16	Deep Sea 3-D	Warner Bros.	3/3/2006	$42,631,025	$45,221,729
17	Richard Pryor Here and Now	Columbia	10/28/1983	$16,156,776	$36,827,189
18	earth	Buena Vista	4/22/2009	$32,011,576	$32,011,578
19	Thrill Ride: The Science of Fun	Sony Pictures Classics	7/11/1997	$18,798,682	$27,520,078
20	Bowling for Columbine	MGM	10/11/2002	$21,576,018	$26,376,269
21	Dirt		3/1/1979	$9,200,000	$26,317,134
22	An Inconvenient Truth	Paramount Vantage	5/24/2006	$24,146,161	$26,105,597
23	Sicko	Lionsgate	6/22/2007	$24,538,513	$25,600,161
24	NASCAR: The IMAX Experience	Warner Bros.	3/12/2004	$21,550,235	$24,844,516
25	Galapagos	IMAX Films	10/29/1999	$17,654,018	$24,708,599
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	9	1.55%	$81,796,269	18,803,739	$129,369,724	The Living Sea	$64,800,000
1996	6	.16%	$8,923,476	2,018,886	$13,889,936	When We Were Kings	$2,666,118
1997	7	.94%	$60,993,257	13,288,292	$91,423,449	Anastasia	$53,042,286
1998	13	1.79%	$120,974,290	25,794,091	$177,463,346	Everest	$56,145,919
1999	24	.93%	$67,881,586	13,362,515	$91,934,103	Everest	$18,064,450
2000	40	2.04%	$152,678,527	28,326,259	$194,884,662	Dolphins	$54,000,000
2001	23	.31%	$24,917,114	4,402,318	$30,287,948	Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure	$6,443,686
2002	29	1.30%	$119,604,030	20,585,891	$141,630,930	Space Station	$29,820,971
2003	47	.96%	$89,571,633	14,854,334	$102,197,818	Space Station	$16,352,556
2004	83	2.34%	$216,476,624	34,859,360	$239,832,397	Fahrenheit 9/11	$119,078,393
2005	98	1.76%	$157,275,847	24,536,016	$168,807,790	March of the Penguins	$77,413,017
2006	108	1.79%	$165,631,721	25,287,287	$173,976,535	Jackass: Number Two	$72,778,712
2007	110	.69%	$66,722,369	9,698,021	$66,722,384	Sicko	$24,530,513
2008	137	1.61%	$158,284,158	22,045,149	$151,670,625	Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour	$65,281,781
2009	76	2.01%	$175,394,070	24,428,142	$168,065,617	Michael Jackson's This Is It	$67,190,296

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