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

	Movie	Distributor	Release Date	Total Gross	Inflation-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

Year	Movies in Release	Market Share	Gross	Tickets Sold	Inflation- Adjusted Gross	Top-Grossing Movie	Gross 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

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