Box Office History for Creative Type - Historical Fiction

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 Sound of Music	20th Century Fox	4/1/1965	$163,214,286	$1,275,010,611
2	Titanic	Paramount Pictures	12/19/1997	$600,788,188	$1,016,477,150
3	Doctor Zhivago	MGM	12/22/1965	$111,721,000	$872,751,174
4	The Sting	Universal	12/25/1973	$159,616,327	$711,510,069
5	Forrest Gump	Paramount Pictures	7/6/1994	$329,694,499	$633,678,391
6	My Fair Lady		10/22/1964	$72,000,000	$610,838,711
7	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	20th Century Fox	10/24/1969	$102,308,900	$568,462,831
8	Grease	Paramount Pictures	6/16/1978	$181,813,770	$564,379,937
9	Notorious		1/1/1946	$24,464,742	$478,974,727
10	The Passion of the Christ	Newmarket Films	2/25/2004	$370,782,930	$471,059,905
11	How the West Was Won		2/20/1963	$46,500,000	$431,629,409
12	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom	Paramount Pictures	5/23/1984	$179,880,271	$411,133,635
13	Fiddler on the Roof	United Artists	1/1/1971	$80,500,000	$384,936,365
14	The Caine Mutiny	Sony Pictures	6/24/1954	$21,800,000	$384,791,947
15	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End	Walt Disney Pictures	5/25/2007	$309,420,425	$354,844,063
16	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull	Paramount Pictures	5/22/2008	$317,023,851	$348,457,913
17	Dances with Wolves	Orion Pictures	11/9/1990	$184,208,842	$328,246,613
18	Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves	Warner Bros.	6/14/1991	$165,493,908	$309,902,907
19	Casablanca	Warner Bros.	1/1/1942	$10,462,500	$302,377,749
20	Platoon	Orion Pictures	12/19/1986	$137,963,328	$293,404,491
21	Porky's	20th Century Fox	3/19/1982	$109,492,484	$282,119,953
22	Gladiator	Dreamworks SKG	5/5/2000	$187,683,805	$274,642,647
23	Tarzan	Walt Disney Pictures	6/16/1999	$171,091,819	$265,704,768
24	Pocahontas	Walt Disney Pictures	6/10/1995	$141,579,773	$256,773,659
25	Good Morning Vietnam	Walt Disney Pictures	12/23/1987	$123,922,370	$250,063,301
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Year by Year Market Share

Year	Movies in Release	Market Share	Gross	Tickets Sold	Inflation- Adjusted Gross	Top-Grossing Movie	Gross that Year
1995	52	14.28%	$755,598,759	173,700,865	$1,195,061,951	Pocahontas	$141,539,152
1996	41	7.33%	$409,667,739	92,685,011	$637,672,876	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	$99,843,665
1997	35	9.64%	$627,483,349	136,706,610	$940,541,477	Titanic	$157,467,971
1998	39	13.70%	$927,928,206	197,852,495	$1,361,225,166	Titanic	$443,319,081
1999	41	10.03%	$731,999,783	144,094,446	$991,369,788	Tarzan	$170,904,824
2000	42	9.23%	$690,060,590	128,026,082	$880,819,444	Gladiator	$186,610,052
2001	48	9.11%	$740,168,869	130,771,885	$899,710,569	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	$114,617,017
2002	39	4.46%	$409,455,402	70,474,254	$484,862,868	The Road to Perdition	$104,054,514
2003	42	11.47%	$1,072,737,744	177,900,121	$1,223,952,832	Chicago	$168,606,379
2004	49	14.60%	$1,352,642,856	217,816,883	$1,498,580,155	The Passion of the Christ	$370,270,943
2005	36	4.98%	$445,909,593	69,564,679	$478,604,992	The Amityville Horror	$64,858,000
2006	61	6.90%	$637,969,563	97,399,934	$670,111,546	The Pink Panther	$82,226,474
2007	67	11.16%	$1,074,794,162	156,220,079	$1,074,794,144	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End	$309,420,425
2008	59	8.53%	$840,050,250	116,998,643	$804,950,664	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull	$317,101,119
2009	40	4.82%	$512,992,058	68,398,942	$470,584,721	Sherlock Holmes	$138,715,437
2010	39	4.48%	$469,246,246	59,473,544	$409,177,983	Shutter Island	$128,012,934
2011	67	5.94%	$605,743,263	76,098,399	$523,556,985	The Help	$169,499,546
2012	17	16.25%	$151,783,616	19,068,293	$131,189,856	Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows	$46,974,904

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