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

Top Grossing Movies 1977 - 2008, Adjusted for Ticket Price Inflation

	Movie	Distributor	Release Date	Total Gross	Inflation-Adjusted Gross
1	Jurassic Park	Universal	6/11/1993	$357,067,947	$593,883,169
2	Beverly Hills Cop	Paramount Pictures	12/5/1984	$234,760,478	$464,191,048
3	Batman	Warner Bros.	6/23/1989	$251,188,924	$433,127,772
4	Twister	Warner Bros.	5/10/1996	$241,888,385	$376,514,048
5	The Lost World: Jurassic Park	Universal	5/23/1997	$229,086,679	$343,380,470
6	Terminator 2: Judgment Day	Sony Pictures	7/3/1991	$204,859,496	$334,782,265
7	Top Gun	Paramount Pictures	5/16/1986	$176,786,701	$327,841,646
8	The Matrix Reloaded	Warner Bros.	5/15/2003	$281,553,689	$321,242,020
9	The Transformers	Paramount Pictures	7/3/2007	$319,246,193	$319,246,193
10	Rocky 3	MGM	5/28/1982	$125,049,125	$292,631,966
11	Rambo: First Blood Part II	Sony/TriStar	5/22/1985	$150,415,432	$291,509,343
12	Batman Forever	Warner Bros.	6/16/1995	$184,031,112	$291,065,301
13	Mission: Impossible	Paramount Pictures	5/22/1996	$180,981,886	$281,709,361
14	Rush Hour 2	New Line	8/3/2001	$226,164,286	$275,400,050
15	Mission: Impossible 2	Paramount Pictures	5/24/2000	$215,409,889	$274,957,336
16	Beverly Hills Cop II	Paramount Pictures	5/20/1987	$153,665,036	$270,387,584
17	Batman Returns	Warner Bros.	6/19/1992	$162,833,635	$269,950,698
18	Air Force One	Sony Pictures	7/25/1997	$172,956,409	$259,220,264
19	Lethal Weapon 2	Warner Bros.	7/7/1989	$147,253,986	$253,911,636
20	The War of the Worlds	Paramount Pictures	6/29/2005	$234,280,354	$251,458,475
21	True Lies	20th Century Fox	7/15/1994	$146,282,411	$246,672,300
22	X-Men: The Last Stand	20th Century Fox	5/26/2006	$234,362,462	$246,170,040
23	X2	20th Century Fox	5/2/2003	$214,949,694	$245,249,399
24	Pearl Harbor	Buena Vista	5/25/2001	$198,539,855	$241,761,803
25	Lethal Weapon 3	Warner Bros.	5/15/1992	$144,731,527	$239,940,461
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	29	19.99%	$1,052,089,892	241,859,743	$1,663,995,032	Batman Forever	$184,031,112
1996	34	21.57%	$1,244,067,379	281,463,209	$1,936,466,878	Twister	$241,888,385
1997	33	23.39%	$1,456,109,018	317,235,082	$2,182,577,364	The Lost World: Jurassic Park	$229,086,679
1998	30	14.79%	$997,033,408	212,587,079	$1,462,599,104	Rush Hour	$137,534,276
1999	23	12.36%	$910,045,956	179,850,979	$1,237,374,736	The Matrix	$171,479,930
2000	28	15.16%	$1,130,314,329	209,705,812	$1,442,775,987	Mission: Impossible 2	$215,409,889
2001	28	15.63%	$1,269,968,649	224,773,213	$1,546,439,705	Rush Hour 2	$226,164,286
2002	27	14.21%	$1,327,862,394	228,941,795	$1,575,119,550	Die Another Day	$153,760,933
2003	26	19.57%	$1,809,837,104	300,138,824	$2,064,955,109	The Matrix Reloaded	$281,553,689
2004	27	13.04%	$1,210,415,920	194,600,630	$1,338,852,334	The Bourne Supremacy	$176,087,450
2005	41	15.32%	$1,356,637,228	211,643,871	$1,456,109,832	The War of the Worlds	$234,280,354
2006	31	10.87%	$1,007,724,332	153,851,046	$1,058,495,196	X-Men: The Last Stand	$234,362,462
2007	38	17.66%	$1,695,578,753	246,450,400	$1,695,578,752	The Transformers	$319,246,193
2008	16	12.25%	$362,785,416	52,730,439	$362,785,420	Iron Man	$104,250,000

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