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

Top Grossing Movies 1977 - 2009, Adjusted for Ticket Price Inflation

	Movie	Distributor	Release Date	Total Gross	Inflation-Adjusted Gross
1	Jurassic Park	Universal	6/11/1993	$357,067,947	$607,908,342
2	The Dark Knight	Warner Bros.	7/18/2008	$533,345,358	$533,345,363
3	Beverly Hills Cop	Paramount Pictures	12/5/1984	$234,760,478	$474,621,112
4	Thunderball	MGM	12/29/1965	$63,600,000	$452,126,732
5	Batman	Warner Bros.	6/23/1989	$251,188,924	$448,026,199
6	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen	Paramount Pictures	6/24/2009	$402,111,870	$402,111,872
7	The Longest Day	20th Century Fox	10/4/1962	$39,100,000	$401,054,287
8	Goldfinger	MGM	12/22/1964	$51,100,000	$394,513,982
9	Twister	Warner Bros.	5/10/1996	$241,888,385	$392,606,923
10	The Lost World: Jurassic Park	Universal	5/23/1997	$229,086,679	$358,334,443
11	Terminator 2: Judgment Day	Sony Pictures	7/3/1991	$204,859,496	$344,262,662
12	The Matrix Reloaded	Warner Bros.	5/15/2003	$281,553,689	$335,249,666
13	Transformers	Paramount Pictures	7/3/2007	$319,246,193	$332,984,821
14	Top Gun	Paramount Pictures	5/16/1986	$176,786,701	$326,018,447
15	Iron Man	Paramount Pictures	5/2/2008	$318,313,199	$318,412,099
16	Spartacus	Universal	10/7/1960	$30,000,000	$312,173,914
17	Rambo: First Blood Part II	Sony/TriStar	5/22/1985	$150,415,432	$304,220,506
18	Batman Forever	Warner Bros.	6/16/1995	$184,031,112	$303,702,289
19	Mission: Impossible	Paramount Pictures	5/22/1996	$180,981,886	$293,845,571
20	Rocky 3	MGM	5/28/1982	$125,049,125	$291,475,568
21	Mission: Impossible 2	Paramount Pictures	5/24/2000	$215,409,889	$286,929,996
22	Rush Hour 2	New Line	8/3/2001	$226,164,286	$286,868,212
23	Batman Returns	Warner Bros.	6/19/1992	$162,831,698	$281,721,804
24	Beverly Hills Cop II	Paramount Pictures	5/20/1987	$153,665,036	$280,833,307
25	Air Force One	Sony Pictures	7/25/1997	$172,956,409	$270,009,565
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	19.81%	$1,048,365,444	241,003,551	$1,658,104,431	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	33	22.50%	$1,464,449,446	319,052,170	$2,195,078,930	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%	$1,130,266,403	209,696,921	$1,442,714,816	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	14.41%	$1,323,892,602	227,864,473	$1,567,707,574	Die Another Day	$150,062,000
2003	26	19.40%	$1,813,569,043	300,757,720	$2,069,213,114	The Matrix Reloaded	$281,553,689
2004	28	13.06%	$1,209,994,154	194,846,080	$1,340,541,030	The Bourne Supremacy	$176,049,130
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	17.57%	$1,694,932,922	246,356,531	$1,694,932,933	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	25	17.66%	$1,541,051,014	214,631,064	$1,476,661,720	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen	$402,111,870

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