Box Office History for Genre - Adventure

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	Pinocchio	Buena Vista	2/9/1940	$84,300,000	$2,511,510,373
2	Star Wars Ep. IV: A New Hope	20th Century Fox	5/25/1977	$460,998,007	$1,169,002,703
3	Song of the South	Buena Vista	11/12/1946	$65,000,000	$1,158,064,519
4	Peter Pan	Buena Vista	2/5/1953	$87,400,000	$1,045,886,669
5	Ben-Hur	MGM	11/18/1959	$73,000,000	$1,027,725,491
6	Star Wars Ep. V: The Empire Strikes Back	20th Century Fox	5/21/1980	$290,271,960	$693,279,648
7	Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi	20th Century Fox	5/25/1983	$309,205,079	$667,572,706
8	Star Wars Ep. I: The Phantom Menace	20th Century Fox	5/19/1999	$431,088,297	$609,211,218
9	Around the World in 80 Days	United Artists	10/17/1956	$42,000,000	$606,760,562
10	Raiders of the Lost Ark	Paramount Pictures	6/12/1981	$245,034,358	$587,269,640
11	The Lion King	Buena Vista	6/15/1994	$328,539,505	$549,149,814
12	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Sony Pictures	11/16/1977	$166,000,000	$534,475,337
13	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	20th Century Fox	10/24/1969	$102,308,900	$517,308,381
14	Shrek 2	Dreamworks SKG	5/19/2004	$441,226,247	$504,647,671
15	Spider-Man	Sony Pictures	5/3/2002	$403,706,375	$498,900,476
16	Independence Day	20th Century Fox	7/3/1996	$306,169,255	$497,278,450
17	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	Buena Vista	7/7/2006	$423,315,812	$464,031,682
18	20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	Buena Vista	12/23/1954	$28,200,000	$452,966,441
19	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	New Line	12/17/2003	$377,027,325	$445,925,474
20	Spider-Man 2	Sony Pictures	6/30/2004	$373,524,485	$431,868,887
21	Star Wars Ep. III: Revenge of the Sith	20th Century Fox	5/19/2005	$380,270,577	$425,941,524
22	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	New Line	12/18/2002	$341,784,377	$415,809,503
23	Finding Nemo	Buena Vista	5/30/2003	$339,714,978	$404,502,345
24	Back to the Future	Universal	7/3/1985	$210,609,762	$403,885,619
25	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone	Warner Bros.	11/16/2001	$317,557,891	$401,988,125
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	26	13.51%	$714,697,734	164,298,333	$1,130,372,531	Toy Story	$150,004,917
1996	23	15.16%	$847,645,423	191,774,981	$1,319,411,869	Independence Day	$306,124,059
1997	13	9.96%	$648,072,260	141,192,213	$971,402,425	Men in Black	$250,107,128
1998	20	17.91%	$1,213,272,244	258,693,446	$1,779,810,908	Armageddon	$201,573,391
1999	18	18.40%	$1,342,890,387	264,348,502	$1,818,717,694	Star Wars Ep. I: The Phantom Menace	$430,443,350
2000	21	12.00%	$897,690,313	166,547,368	$1,145,845,892	Dinosaur	$137,748,063
2001	24	24.00%	$1,950,517,003	344,614,310	$2,370,946,453	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone	$291,594,218
2002	36	26.16%	$2,403,474,025	413,678,835	$2,846,110,385	Spider-Man	$403,706,375
2003	39	22.85%	$2,136,474,912	354,307,616	$2,437,636,398	Finding Nemo	$339,714,367
2004	35	27.59%	$2,556,521,787	411,678,225	$2,832,346,188	Shrek 2	$436,471,036
2005	37	23.97%	$2,144,200,219	334,508,614	$2,301,419,264	Star Wars Ep. III: Revenge of the Sith	$380,262,555
2006	32	19.45%	$1,799,390,469	274,716,103	$1,890,046,789	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	$423,315,812
2007	31	20.90%	$2,016,445,585	293,088,021	$2,016,445,584	Spider-Man 3	$336,530,303
2008	42	19.06%	$1,877,741,583	261,523,897	$1,799,284,411	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull	$317,101,119
2009	27	20.86%	$1,750,017,558	243,735,036	$1,676,897,048	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	$301,577,469

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