Box Office History for Distributor - 20th Century Fox

Ticket Sales and Market Share History

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

Top Grossing Movies 1977 - 2010, 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	$1,221,103,103
2	The Sound of Music	20th Century Fox	4/1/1965	$163,214,286	$1,211,987,273
3	Star Wars Ep. V: The Empire Strikes Back	20th Century Fox	5/21/1980	$290,271,960	$724,177,905
4	Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi	20th Century Fox	5/25/1983	$309,205,079	$697,325,250
5	Star Wars Ep. I: The Phantom Menace	20th Century Fox	5/19/1999	$431,088,297	$636,362,693
6	Avatar	20th Century Fox	12/18/2009	$603,789,348	$598,453,035
7	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	20th Century Fox	10/24/1969	$102,308,900	$540,363,908
8	Independence Day	20th Century Fox	7/3/1996	$306,169,255	$519,441,278
9	Home Alone	20th Century Fox	11/16/1990	$285,761,243	$491,524,890
10	Star Wars Ep. III: Revenge of the Sith	20th Century Fox	5/19/2005	$380,270,577	$444,924,990
11	Cleopatra	20th Century Fox	6/12/1963	$48,000,000	$423,529,410
12	The Longest Day	20th Century Fox	10/4/1962	$39,100,000	$418,928,573
13	Mrs. Doubtfire	20th Century Fox	11/24/1993	$219,195,051	$398,751,428
14	Star Wars Ep. II: Attack of the Clones	20th Century Fox	5/16/2002	$310,676,740	$390,078,908
15	Young Frankenstein	20th Century Fox	12/15/1974	$86,300,000	$346,122,998
16	Cast Away	20th Century Fox	12/22/2000	$233,632,142	$316,861,913
17	Home Alone 2: Lost in New York	20th Century Fox	11/20/1992	$173,585,516	$307,342,013
18	There's Something About Mary	20th Century Fox	7/15/1998	$176,484,651	$282,005,940
19	Night at the Museum	20th Century Fox	12/22/2006	$250,863,268	$280,460,963
20	True Lies	20th Century Fox	7/15/1994	$146,282,411	$268,885,935
21	X-Men: The Last Stand	20th Century Fox	5/26/2006	$234,362,462	$268,353,968
22	Porky's	20th Century Fox	3/19/1982	$109,492,484	$268,174,860
23	X2	20th Century Fox	5/2/2003	$214,949,694	$267,349,230
24	The Bible	20th Century Fox	9/28/1966	$34,900,023	$240,137,775
25	Planet of the Apes	20th Century Fox	7/27/2001	$180,011,740	$238,523,355
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	15	7.75%	$410,286,239	94,318,676	$648,912,491	Die Hard: With a Vengeance	$99,941,764
1996	15	12.67%	$708,633,772	160,324,381	$1,103,031,741	Independence Day	$306,124,059
1997	21	10.18%	$662,534,957	144,343,130	$993,080,734	Star Wars Ep. IV: A New Hope	$138,133,173
1998	18	10.67%	$722,595,532	154,071,541	$1,060,012,202	There's Something About Mary	$174,711,122
1999	22	10.73%	$783,088,137	154,151,207	$1,060,560,304	Star Wars Ep. I: The Phantom Menace	$430,443,350
2000	21	9.76%	$730,350,096	135,500,942	$932,246,481	X-Men	$157,299,717
2001	20	10.53%	$855,517,878	151,151,569	$1,039,922,795	Planet of the Apes	$179,774,963
2002	25	10.69%	$981,714,714	168,969,830	$1,162,512,430	Star Wars Ep. II: Attack of the Clones	$302,181,125
2003	19	8.62%	$805,519,707	133,585,360	$919,067,277	X2	$214,948,780
2004	19	9.89%	$916,024,299	147,507,940	$1,014,854,627	The Day After Tomorrow	$186,739,919
2005	21	15.20%	$1,359,746,052	212,128,869	$1,459,446,619	Star Wars Ep. III: Revenge of the Sith	$380,262,555
2006	28	15.10%	$1,397,485,800	213,356,610	$1,467,893,477	X-Men: The Last Stand	$234,362,462
2007	25	10.49%	$1,012,321,731	147,139,784	$1,012,321,714	The Simpsons Movie	$183,135,014
2008	24	10.54%	$1,048,311,696	146,004,418	$1,004,510,396	Horton Hears a Who	$154,529,439
2009	22	13.52%	$1,460,621,525	194,749,538	$1,339,876,821	Avatar	$352,114,898
2010	4	38.64%	$327,829,598	43,710,613	$300,729,017	Avatar	$246,338,139

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