Box Office History for Genre - Black Comedy
Ticket Sales and Market Share History
Top Grossing Movies 1977 - 2008, Adjusted for Ticket Price Inflation
| | Movie | Distributor | Release Date | Total Gross | Inflation-Adjusted Gross |
| 1 |
Natural Born Killers
|
Warner Bros.
|
8/26/1994 |
$50,282,766 |
$84,790,544 |
| 2 |
The Royal Tenenbaums
|
Buena Vista
|
12/14/2001 |
$52,353,636 |
$62,442,048 |
| 3 |
Grosse Point Blank
|
Buena Vista
|
4/11/1997 |
$28,084,357 |
$42,095,940 |
| 4 |
Snatch
|
Sony Pictures
|
12/8/2000 |
$30,093,107 |
$36,646,561 |
| 5 |
The Player
|
Fine Line
|
4/10/1992 |
$21,706,101 |
$35,985,056 |
| 6 |
To Die For
|
Sony Pictures
|
9/27/1995 |
$21,284,514 |
$33,653,836 |
| 7 |
Nurse Betty
|
USA Films
|
9/8/2000 |
$25,170,054 |
$32,128,011 |
| 8 |
Being John Malkovich
|
USA Films
|
10/29/1999 |
$22,858,926 |
$30,696,730 |
| 9 |
Thank You For Smoking
|
Fox Searchlight
|
3/17/2006 |
$24,793,509 |
$26,042,651 |
| 10 |
Rushmore
|
Buena Vista
|
12/11/1998 |
$17,105,219 |
$23,262,367 |
| 11 |
Go!
|
Sony Pictures
|
4/9/1999 |
$16,875,273 |
$22,945,034 |
| 12 |
Bringing Out The Dead
|
Paramount Pictures
|
10/22/1999 |
$16,640,210 |
$22,611,540 |
| 13 |
Dead Man on Campus
|
Paramount Pictures
|
8/21/1998 |
$15,064,948 |
$22,099,537 |
| 14 |
Election
|
Paramount Pictures
|
4/23/1999 |
$14,943,582 |
$20,318,546 |
| 15 |
So I Married an Axe Murderer
|
Sony/TriStar
|
7/30/1993 |
$11,585,483 |
$19,253,171 |
| 16 |
American Psycho
|
Lionsgate
|
4/14/2000 |
$15,070,285 |
$19,236,280 |
| 17 |
Home Fries
|
Warner Bros.
|
11/25/1998 |
$10,513,979 |
$15,378,630 |
| 18 |
Office Space
|
Miramax
|
2/19/1999 |
$10,827,813 |
$14,722,402 |
| 19 |
Very Bad Things
|
Polygram
|
11/25/1998 |
$9,949,470 |
$14,579,539 |
| 20 |
My Own Private Idaho
|
Fine Line
|
9/29/1991 |
$6,401,336 |
$10,461,088 |
| 21 |
Death to Smoochy
|
Warner Bros.
|
3/29/2002 |
$8,355,815 |
$9,911,727 |
| 22 |
The Ice Harvest
|
Focus Features
|
11/23/2005 |
$9,016,782 |
$9,677,917 |
| 23 |
The Opposite of Sex
|
Sony Pictures Classics
|
5/22/1998 |
$6,367,164 |
$9,340,316 |
| 24 |
Gridlock'd
|
Gramercy
|
1/29/1997 |
$5,573,929 |
$8,354,824 |
| 25 |
The Rules of Attraction
|
Lionsgate
|
10/11/2002 |
$6,525,762 |
$7,740,901 |
| 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 |
3 |
.45% |
$23,765,765 |
5,463,395 |
$37,588,158 |
To Die For
|
$20,887,407 |
| 1996 |
3 |
.05% |
$2,987,204 |
675,837 |
$4,649,759 |
Faithful
|
$2,104,439 |
| 1997 |
3 |
.60% |
$37,261,170 |
8,117,902 |
$55,851,166 |
Grosse Point Blank
|
$28,084,357 |
| 1998 |
6 |
.68% |
$46,087,958 |
9,826,856 |
$67,608,769 |
Dead Man on Campus
|
$15,064,948 |
| 1999 |
10 |
1.38% |
$101,965,955 |
20,151,373 |
$138,641,446 |
Being John Malkovich
|
$18,243,969 |
| 2000 |
7 |
.69% |
$51,196,178 |
9,498,362 |
$65,348,731 |
Nurse Betty
|
$25,170,054 |
| 2001 |
3 |
.58% |
$47,122,178 |
8,340,209 |
$57,380,638 |
Snatch
|
$30,055,445 |
| 2002 |
4 |
.62% |
$57,667,829 |
9,942,729 |
$68,405,976 |
The Royal Tenenbaums
|
$41,563,435 |
| 2003 |
1 |
.00% |
$44,011 |
7,299 |
$50,217 |
Roger Dodger
|
$44,011 |
| 2004 |
2 |
.02% |
$2,126,476 |
341,877 |
$2,352,114 |
Nicotina
|
$1,109,100 |
| 2005 |
6 |
.11% |
$9,517,049 |
1,484,719 |
$10,214,867 |
The Ice Harvest
|
$9,016,782 |
| 2006 |
5 |
.35% |
$32,291,455 |
4,929,993 |
$33,918,352 |
Thank You For Smoking
|
$24,793,509 |
| 2007 |
2 |
.03% |
$2,429,282 |
353,093 |
$2,429,280 |
You Kill Me
|
$2,426,851 |
| 2008 |
2 |
.00% |
$18,301 |
2,660 |
$18,301 |
Military Intelligence and You!
|
$14,251 |
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