Box Office History for Creative Type - Science 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	Star Wars Ep. IV: A New Hope	20th Century Fox	5/25/1977	$460,998,007	$1,284,600,464
2	Avatar	20th Century Fox	12/18/2009	$760,507,625	$778,817,600
3	Star Wars Ep. I: The Phantom Menace	20th Century Fox	5/19/1999	$431,088,297	$669,453,553
4	Jurassic Park	Universal	6/11/1993	$357,067,947	$668,021,841
5	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Sony/Columbia	11/16/1977	$166,000,000	$587,327,355
6	Independence Day	20th Century Fox	7/3/1996	$306,169,255	$546,452,224
7	Star Wars Ep. III: Revenge of the Sith	20th Century Fox	5/19/2005	$380,270,577	$468,061,089
8	Men in Black	Sony Pictures	7/2/1997	$250,690,539	$429,990,822
9	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen	Paramount Pictures	6/24/2009	$402,111,870	$423,021,687
10	Transformers	Paramount Pictures	7/3/2007	$319,246,193	$365,912,289
11	Transformers: Dark of the Moon	Paramount Pictures	6/29/2011	$352,390,543	$349,291,633
12	2001: A Space Odyssey		4/2/1968	$56,700,000	$341,498,475
13	Inception	Warner Bros.	7/16/2010	$292,576,195	$292,576,136
14	I am Legend	Warner Bros.	12/14/2007	$256,393,010	$291,623,655
15	Star Trek	Paramount Pictures	5/8/2009	$257,730,019	$271,131,984
16	The Matrix	Warner Bros.	3/31/1999	$171,479,930	$266,183,833
17	Men in Black 2	Sony Pictures	7/3/2002	$190,418,803	$258,589,393
18	Honey, I Shrunk the Kids	Walt Disney Pictures	6/23/1989	$130,724,172	$256,882,809
19	Jurassic Park 3	Universal	7/18/2001	$181,166,115	$252,544,288
20	Planet of the Apes	20th Century Fox	7/27/2001	$180,011,740	$250,926,569
21	WALL-E	Walt Disney Pictures	6/27/2008	$223,808,164	$245,939,553
22	The Day After Tomorrow	20th Century Fox	5/28/2004	$186,740,799	$237,258,928
23	Deep Impact	Paramount Pictures	5/8/1998	$140,464,664	$236,027,796
24	Godzilla	Sony Pictures	5/20/1998	$136,314,294	$229,032,072
25	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home	Paramount Pictures	11/26/1986	$109,713,132	$224,976,210
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	14	6.47%	$342,146,389	78,654,343	$541,141,880	Waterworld	$88,214,660
1996	15	10.39%	$580,960,869	131,439,108	$904,301,063	Independence Day	$306,124,059
1997	14	12.29%	$799,748,753	174,237,203	$1,198,751,957	Men in Black	$250,107,128
1998	18	8.94%	$605,501,502	129,104,799	$888,241,017	Deep Impact	$140,300,426
1999	17	11.62%	$847,888,525	166,907,190	$1,148,321,467	Star Wars Ep. I: The Phantom Menace	$430,443,350
2000	18	7.55%	$564,853,093	104,796,492	$720,999,865	Space Cowboys	$90,179,885
2001	13	7.12%	$579,030,693	102,302,243	$703,839,432	Jurassic Park 3	$181,166,115
2002	19	7.04%	$646,374,106	111,251,997	$765,413,739	Men in Black 2	$190,418,803
2003	14	5.02%	$469,131,136	77,799,527	$535,260,746	Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines	$150,350,192
2004	22	7.78%	$720,522,163	116,026,113	$798,259,657	The Day After Tomorrow	$186,739,919
2005	17	6.92%	$618,819,657	96,539,728	$664,193,329	Star Wars Ep. III: Revenge of the Sith	$380,262,555
2006	17	1.95%	$180,555,395	27,565,709	$189,652,078	V for Vendetta	$70,496,802
2007	25	9.60%	$924,830,890	134,423,094	$924,830,887	Transformers	$319,071,806
2008	23	10.20%	$1,005,092,608	139,985,043	$963,097,096	WALL-E	$223,806,889
2009	27	16.30%	$1,735,948,536	231,459,808	$1,592,443,479	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen	$402,111,870
2010	20	10.99%	$1,151,289,328	145,917,533	$1,003,912,627	Avatar	$408,392,727
2011	30	14.12%	$1,439,196,303	180,803,557	$1,243,928,472	Transformers: Dark of the Moon	$352,390,543
2012	6	3.29%	$30,703,360	3,857,207	$26,537,584	Chronicle	$22,004,098

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