Box Office History for Distributor - Sony Pictures

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	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Sony Pictures	11/16/1977	$166,000,000	$534,475,337
2	Spider-Man	Sony Pictures	5/3/2002	$403,706,375	$498,900,476
3	Ghostbusters	Sony Pictures	6/8/1984	$238,632,124	$471,947,166
4	Spider-Man 2	Sony Pictures	6/30/2004	$373,524,485	$431,868,887
5	Tootsie	Sony Pictures	12/17/1982	$177,200,000	$408,092,539
6	Men in Black	Sony Pictures	7/2/1997	$250,690,539	$391,297,098
7	Lawrence of Arabia	Sony Pictures	12/16/1962	$37,495,385	$384,595,522
8	Spider-Man 3	Sony Pictures	5/4/2007	$336,530,303	$351,204,588
9	The Caine Mutiny	Sony Pictures	6/24/1954	$21,800,000	$350,165,549
10	Terminator 2: Judgment Day	Sony Pictures	7/3/1991	$204,859,496	$344,262,662
11	Air Force One	Sony Pictures	7/25/1997	$172,956,409	$270,009,565
12	To Sir With Love	Sony Pictures	6/14/1967	$42,432,803	$253,889,603
13	Gladiator	Dreamworks SKG	5/5/2000	$187,683,805	$249,928,290
14	Jerry Maguire	Sony Pictures	12/13/1996	$153,952,592	$243,935,445
15	A Few Good Men	Sony Pictures	12/11/1992	$141,340,178	$243,391,345
16	Look Who's Talking	Sony Pictures	10/13/1989	$140,088,813	$240,709,881
17	The Da Vinci Code	Sony Pictures	5/19/2006	$217,536,138	$238,459,460
18	Men in Black 2	Sony Pictures	7/3/2002	$190,418,803	$235,319,625
19	Big Daddy	Sony Pictures	6/25/1999	$163,479,795	$231,060,025
20	Hancock	Sony Pictures	7/2/2008	$227,946,274	$227,946,275
21	As Good as it Gets	Sony Pictures	12/24/1997	$148,478,011	$227,378,933
22	Stripes	Sony Pictures	6/26/1981	$85,300,000	$215,243,390
23	Easy Rider	Sony Pictures	7/14/1969	$41,728,598	$210,993,900
24	Godzilla	Sony Pictures	5/20/1998	$136,314,294	$208,422,088
25	Oliver!	Sony Pictures	12/11/1968	$37,402,877	$205,002,032
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	31	12.86%	$680,228,916	156,374,465	$1,075,856,319	Legends of the Fall	$66,020,491
1996	36	10.17%	$568,358,918	128,587,992	$884,685,385	Jerry Maguire	$60,351,092
1997	33	19.74%	$1,284,982,802	279,952,682	$1,926,074,452	Men in Black	$250,107,128
1998	37	10.68%	$723,634,781	154,293,130	$1,061,536,734	Godzilla	$136,142,003
1999	35	8.23%	$600,462,674	118,201,311	$813,225,020	Big Daddy	$163,479,795
2000	29	8.95%	$669,248,525	124,164,848	$854,254,154	Gladiator	$186,610,052
2001	27	8.84%	$718,312,883	126,910,402	$873,143,566	America's Sweethearts	$93,607,673
2002	32	16.90%	$1,552,855,682	267,272,923	$1,838,837,710	Spider-Man	$403,706,375
2003	32	12.81%	$1,197,369,611	198,568,759	$1,366,153,062	Bad Boys II	$138,540,870
2004	34	14.29%	$1,323,683,041	213,153,469	$1,466,495,867	Spider-Man 2	$373,524,485
2005	22	8.47%	$757,784,542	118,219,116	$813,347,518	Hitch	$177,575,142
2006	26	16.70%	$1,545,688,614	235,982,995	$1,623,563,006	The Da Vinci Code	$217,536,138
2007	24	10.65%	$1,027,751,944	149,382,552	$1,027,751,958	Spider-Man 3	$336,530,303
2008	18	11.13%	$1,096,900,335	152,771,634	$1,051,068,842	Hancock	$227,946,274
2009	18	13.43%	$1,126,371,873	156,876,308	$1,079,308,999	Paul Blart: Mall Cop	$146,336,178

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