Box Office History for Genre - Action

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	Avatar	20th Century Fox	12/18/2009	$760,507,625	$778,817,600
2	Jurassic Park	Universal	6/11/1993	$357,067,947	$668,021,841
3	The Dark Knight	Warner Bros.	7/18/2008	$533,345,358	$585,975,751
4	Beverly Hills Cop	Paramount Pictures	12/5/1984	$234,760,478	$521,554,398
5	Thunderball	MGM	12/29/1965	$63,600,000	$496,835,643
6	Batman	Warner Bros.	6/23/1989	$251,188,924	$492,329,625
7	The Longest Day	20th Century Fox	10/4/1962	$39,100,000	$440,712,858
8	Goldfinger	MGM	12/22/1964	$51,100,000	$433,525,810
9	Twister	Warner Bros.	5/10/1996	$241,888,385	$431,430,171
10	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen	Paramount Pictures	6/24/2009	$402,111,870	$423,021,687
11	The Lost World: Jurassic Park	Universal	5/23/1997	$229,086,679	$393,768,629
12	Terminator 2: Judgment Day	Sony Pictures	7/3/1991	$204,859,496	$378,305,349
13	The Matrix Reloaded	Warner Bros.	5/15/2003	$281,553,689	$368,401,095
14	Transformers	Paramount Pictures	7/3/2007	$319,246,193	$365,912,289
15	Top Gun	Paramount Pictures	5/16/1986	$176,786,701	$358,257,040
16	Iron Man	Paramount Pictures	5/2/2008	$318,604,126	$350,090,559
17	Transformers: Dark of the Moon	Paramount Pictures	6/29/2011	$352,390,543	$349,291,633
18	Spartacus	Universal	10/7/1960	$30,000,000	$343,043,479
19	Rambo: First Blood Part II	Sony/TriStar	5/22/1985	$150,415,432	$334,303,592
20	Batman Forever	Warner Bros.	6/16/1995	$184,031,112	$333,734,131
21	Mission: Impossible	Paramount Pictures	5/22/1996	$180,981,886	$322,902,724
22	Rocky 3	MGM	5/28/1982	$125,049,125	$320,298,361
23	Mission: Impossible 2	Paramount Pictures	5/24/2000	$215,409,889	$315,303,297
24	Rush Hour 2	New Line	8/3/2001	$226,164,286	$315,235,403
25	Batman Returns	Warner Bros.	6/19/1992	$162,831,698	$309,580,088
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	20.16%	$1,066,909,094	245,266,459	$1,687,433,238	Batman Forever	$183,997,904
1996	35	22.04%	$1,232,397,345	278,822,927	$1,918,301,738	Twister	$241,688,385
1997	34	22.50%	$1,464,454,446	319,053,259	$2,195,086,422	The Lost World: Jurassic Park	$229,074,524
1998	31	14.68%	$994,536,914	212,054,778	$1,458,936,873	Rush Hour	$137,534,276
1999	23	12.46%	$909,822,820	179,098,980	$1,232,200,982	The Matrix	$171,383,253
2000	28	15.11%	$1,130,271,062	209,697,785	$1,442,720,761	Mission: Impossible 2	$215,397,307
2001	28	15.62%	$1,269,922,233	224,367,885	$1,543,651,049	Rush Hour 2	$226,138,454
2002	27	15.16%	$1,392,842,445	239,731,916	$1,649,355,582	Men in Black 2	$190,418,803
2003	29	22.22%	$2,077,654,678	344,553,016	$2,370,524,750	The Matrix Reloaded	$281,553,689
2004	27	11.16%	$1,033,945,024	166,496,784	$1,145,497,874	I, Robot	$144,795,350
2005	42	15.31%	$1,370,217,034	213,762,406	$1,470,685,353	The War of the Worlds	$234,277,056
2006	31	10.89%	$1,007,423,747	153,805,154	$1,058,179,460	X-Men: The Last Stand	$234,362,462
2007	38	15.34%	$1,477,432,837	214,743,146	$1,477,432,844	Transformers	$319,071,806
2008	38	19.96%	$1,966,089,837	273,828,669	$1,883,941,243	The Dark Knight	$531,001,578
2009	32	19.17%	$2,041,444,903	272,192,652	$1,872,685,446	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen	$402,111,870
2010	31	14.70%	$1,539,903,798	195,171,585	$1,342,780,505	Avatar	$408,392,727
2011	45	20.78%	$2,118,192,368	266,104,569	$1,830,799,435	Transformers: Dark of the Moon	$352,390,543
2012	12	29.73%	$277,629,337	34,878,058	$239,961,039	Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol	$64,014,130

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