Box Office History for Genre - Comedy

Ticket Sales and Market Share History

	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012

Top Grossing Movies 1977 - 2012, Adjusted for Ticket Price Inflation

	Movie	Distributor	Release Date	Total Gross	Inflation-Adjusted Gross
1	101 Dalmatians	Walt Disney Pictures	1/25/1961	$153,000,000	$1,749,521,736
2	The Graduate	Embassy	12/21/1967	$104,397,102	$686,410,946
3	Home Alone	20th Century Fox	11/16/1990	$285,761,243	$519,397,359
4	Ghostbusters	Sony Pictures	6/8/1984	$238,632,124	$518,616,036
5	Blazing Saddles	Warner Bros.	1/1/1974	$119,500,000	$504,200,532
6	National Lampoon's Animal House	Universal	7/28/1978	$141,600,000	$477,446,158
7	Tootsie	Sony Pictures	12/17/1982	$177,200,000	$448,447,094
8	Mrs. Doubtfire	20th Century Fox	11/24/1993	$219,195,051	$419,486,502
9	Aladdin	Walt Disney Pictures	11/11/1992	$217,350,219	$396,978,825
10	How the Grinch Stole Christmas	Universal	11/17/2000	$260,044,825	$380,173,811
11	Crocodile Dundee	Paramount Pictures	9/26/1986	$174,803,506	$352,650,588
12	Meet the Fockers	Universal	12/22/2004	$279,167,575	$350,064,680
13	Gremlins	Warner Bros.	6/8/1984	$148,168,459	$347,811,122
14	Rain Man	MGM	12/16/1988	$172,825,435	$329,969,489
15	Home Alone 2: Lost in New York	20th Century Fox	11/20/1992	$173,585,516	$323,323,797
16	3 Men and a Baby	Walt Disney Pictures	11/25/1987	$167,780,960	$323,105,718
17	Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me	New Line	6/10/1999	$206,040,085	$319,883,268
18	Bruce Almighty	Universal	5/23/2003	$242,704,995	$317,564,216
19	Liar Liar	Universal	3/21/1997	$181,410,615	$311,810,362
20	Night at the Museum	20th Century Fox	12/22/2006	$250,863,268	$295,044,933
21	Cars	Walt Disney Pictures	6/9/2006	$244,082,982	$293,981,124
22	Who Framed Roger Rabbit?	Walt Disney Pictures	6/22/1988	$154,112,492	$291,804,510
23	The Hangover	Warner Bros.	6/5/2009	$277,322,503	$291,743,275
24	The Absent Minded Professor	Walt Disney Pictures	3/16/1961	$25,381,407	$290,230,873
25	Austin Powers in Goldmember	New Line	7/25/2002	$213,117,789	$289,362,239
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	65	21.57%	$1,141,223,077	262,350,134	$1,804,968,922	Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls	$104,355,781
1996	84	25.68%	$1,435,788,844	324,839,101	$2,234,893,015	The Nutty Professor	$128,769,345
1997	80	24.76%	$1,611,560,108	351,102,419	$2,415,584,643	Liar Liar	$181,395,380
1998	83	17.30%	$1,171,683,515	249,825,908	$1,718,802,247	The Waterboy	$150,037,914
1999	77	22.15%	$1,617,033,056	318,313,598	$2,189,997,554	Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me	$205,957,794
2000	81	27.18%	$2,032,641,817	377,113,511	$2,594,540,956	How the Grinch Stole Christmas	$253,367,455
2001	92	22.86%	$1,857,766,623	328,227,320	$2,258,203,962	American Pie 2	$145,096,820
2002	88	21.41%	$1,967,121,883	338,575,193	$2,329,397,328	Austin Powers in Goldmember	$213,079,163
2003	88	26.59%	$2,486,256,966	412,314,586	$2,836,724,352	Bruce Almighty	$242,701,167
2004	132	22.02%	$2,039,808,277	328,471,537	$2,259,884,175	Meet the Fockers	$162,461,370
2005	136	26.33%	$2,355,731,745	367,508,853	$2,528,460,909	The Wedding Crashers	$209,218,368
2006	139	32.64%	$3,020,164,530	461,093,820	$3,172,325,482	Cars	$244,052,771
2007	144	23.59%	$2,271,166,643	330,111,429	$2,271,166,632	Ratatouille	$206,445,654
2008	138	27.98%	$2,757,007,640	383,984,358	$2,641,812,383	Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa	$177,016,810
2009	102	20.79%	$2,213,237,304	295,098,304	$2,030,276,332	The Hangover	$277,322,503
2010	89	21.06%	$2,205,995,583	279,593,869	$1,923,605,819	Despicable Me	$251,203,225
2011	101	18.24%	$1,859,426,985	233,596,354	$1,607,142,916	The Hangover 2	$254,464,305
2012	12	6.88%	$64,242,358	8,070,649	$55,526,065	Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked	$30,503,691

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