Box Office History for Creative Type - Fantasy

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	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	Buena Vista	12/21/1937	$184,925,485	$5,772,891,229
2	Cinderella	Buena Vista	2/15/1950	$85,000,000	$1,155,871,209
3	Peter Pan	Buena Vista	2/5/1953	$87,400,000	$1,045,886,669
4	The Wizard of Oz	MGM	1/1/1939	$27,062,232	$844,812,284
5	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	Buena Vista	7/7/2006	$423,315,812	$464,031,682
6	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	New Line	12/17/2003	$377,027,325	$445,925,474
7	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	New Line	12/18/2002	$341,784,377	$415,809,503
8	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone	Warner Bros.	11/16/2001	$317,557,891	$401,988,125
9	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	New Line	12/19/2001	$314,776,170	$393,521,806
10	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	Buena Vista	7/9/2003	$305,411,224	$363,657,149
11	Aladdin	Buena Vista	11/11/1992	$217,350,219	$361,255,762
12	Ghost	Paramount Pictures	7/13/1990	$217,631,306	$350,737,313
13	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe	Buena Vista	12/9/2005	$291,710,957	$325,171,128
14	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	Warner Bros.	11/18/2005	$290,013,036	$324,520,807
15	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	Warner Bros.	11/15/2002	$261,987,880	$323,043,680
16	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End	Buena Vista	5/25/2007	$309,420,425	$322,912,595
17	Gremlins	Warner Bros.	6/8/1984	$148,168,459	$316,512,530
18	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	Warner Bros.	7/11/2007	$292,004,738	$304,737,502
19	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	Warner Bros.	7/15/2009	$301,814,491	$301,809,060
20	Bruce Almighty	Universal	5/23/2003	$242,704,995	$288,987,461
21	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	Warner Bros.	6/4/2004	$249,538,952	$288,482,700
22	Night at the Museum	20th Century Fox	12/22/2006	$250,863,268	$268,494,628
23	Who Framed Roger Rabbit?	Buena Vista	6/22/1988	$154,112,492	$265,545,802
24	The Mummy Returns	Universal	5/4/2001	$202,007,640	$256,257,043
25	A Bug's Life	Buena Vista	11/20/1998	$162,798,565	$246,122,445
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	30	7.57%	$400,336,628	92,031,410	$633,176,101	Casper	$100,237,375
1996	19	4.58%	$255,864,887	57,887,986	$398,269,344	Dragonheart	$51,317,350
1997	7	1.37%	$89,063,022	19,403,708	$133,497,511	Mortal Kombat: Annihilation	$35,059,903
1998	14	7.70%	$521,283,205	111,147,803	$764,696,885	A Bug's Life	$136,420,000
1999	14	5.41%	$394,621,776	77,681,452	$534,448,390	The Mummy	$155,247,825
2000	15	3.67%	$274,300,206	50,890,576	$350,127,163	The Green Mile	$60,119,360
2001	17	10.44%	$848,585,798	149,926,820	$1,031,496,522	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone	$291,594,218
2002	18	9.51%	$873,678,952	150,375,035	$1,034,580,241	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	$245,996,000
2003	24	13.75%	$1,285,142,385	213,124,776	$1,466,298,459	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	$305,411,224
2004	16	5.77%	$534,469,294	86,065,907	$592,133,440	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	$249,509,413
2005	18	11.68%	$1,045,105,421	163,042,966	$1,121,735,606	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	$277,083,157
2006	31	16.16%	$1,495,063,330	228,253,946	$1,570,387,148	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	$423,315,812
2007	45	19.06%	$1,838,202,834	267,180,643	$1,838,202,824	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End	$309,420,425
2008	46	10.98%	$1,082,147,386	150,716,904	$1,036,932,300	Twilight	$176,922,850
2009	38	20.17%	$1,760,045,969	245,131,755	$1,686,506,474	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	$301,809,058

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