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Friday, November 20, 2009

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   2009 

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

 MovieDistributorRelease DateTotal GrossInflation-Adjusted Gross
1 Natural Born Killers Warner Bros. 8/26/1994 $50,282,766 $88,370,234
2 The Royal Tenenbaums Buena Vista 12/14/2001 $52,353,636 $65,052,028
3 Burn After Reading Focus Features 9/12/2008 $60,355,347 $60,355,346
4 Grosse Point Blank Buena Vista 4/11/1997 $28,084,357 $43,822,304
5 Snatch Sony Pictures 12/8/2000 $30,093,107 $38,177,036
6 To Die For Sony Pictures 9/27/1995 $21,284,514 $34,686,271
7 Nurse Betty USA Films 9/8/2000 $25,170,054 $33,525,229
8 Being John Malkovich USA Films 10/29/1999 $22,858,926 $31,933,330
9 Thank You For Smoking Fox Searchlight 3/17/2006 $24,793,509 $27,178,231
10 Rushmore Buena Vista 12/11/1998 $17,105,219 $24,168,447
11 The Player Fine Line 4/10/1992 $21,706,101 $24,047,041
12 Go! Sony Pictures 4/9/1999 $16,875,273 $23,804,673
13 Bringing Out The Dead Paramount Pictures 10/22/1999 $16,640,210 $23,505,482
14 Dead Man on Campus Paramount Pictures 8/21/1998 $15,064,948 $23,060,042
15 The Men Who Stare at Goats Overture Films 11/6/2009 $23,469,369 $23,038,050
16 Election Paramount Pictures 4/23/1999 $14,943,582 $21,030,550
17 American Psycho Lionsgate 4/14/2000 $15,070,285 $20,044,614
18 Adventureland Miramax 4/3/2009 $16,044,025 $16,044,026
19 Home Fries Warner Bros. 11/25/1998 $10,513,979 $15,946,995
20 Office Space Miramax 2/19/1999 $10,827,813 $15,299,790
21 Very Bad Things Polygram 11/25/1998 $9,949,470 $15,005,712
22 Death to Smoochy Warner Bros. 3/29/2002 $8,355,815 $10,326,118
23 The Ice Harvest Focus Features 11/23/2005 $9,016,782 $9,878,445
24 The Opposite of Sex Sony Pictures Classics 5/22/1998 $6,367,164 $9,595,015
25 Brazil Universal 12/18/1985 $9,929,135 $9,523,193
Complete List

Year by Year Market Share

YearMovies in
Release
Market
Share
GrossTickets SoldInflation-
Adjusted
Gross
Top-Grossing MovieGross that Year
1995 3 .43% $22,883,645 5,260,609 $36,192,990 To Die For $20,887,407
1996 3 .05% $2,564,512 580,207 $3,991,824 Faithful $2,101,580
1997 3 .57% $37,053,563 8,072,672 $55,539,983 Grosse Point Blank $28,014,536
1998 6 .68% $45,982,332 9,804,334 $67,453,818 Dead Man on Campus $15,062,898
1999 9 1.39% $101,450,175 19,970,506 $137,397,081 Being John Malkovich $18,243,969
2000 7 .68% $51,170,528 9,493,603 $65,315,989 Nurse Betty $25,167,270
2001 3 .58% $47,122,178 8,325,473 $57,279,254 Snatch $30,055,445
2002 4 .63% $57,640,692 9,920,945 $68,256,102 The Royal Tenenbaums $41,563,435
2003 1 .00% $65,081 10,793 $74,256 Roger Dodger $65,081
2004 2 .02% $2,126,476 342,428 $2,355,905 Nicotina $1,109,100
2005 6 .10% $9,312,189 1,452,759 $9,994,982 The Ice Harvest $8,819,059
2006 5 .35% $32,134,153 4,905,978 $33,753,129 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 5 .63% $61,581,866 8,576,862 $59,008,811 Burn After Reading $60,355,347
2009 5 .49% $42,842,615 5,966,939 $41,052,540 The Men Who Stare at Goats $23,038,050