Box Office History for Genre - Black Comedy

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	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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