Box Office History for Genre - Drama

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	Gone with the Wind	MGM	12/15/1939	$198,680,470	$3,335,519,619
2	Bambi	Buena Vista	8/13/1942	$102,797,000	$2,703,598,758
3	Lady and the Tramp	Buena Vista	6/22/1955	$93,600,000	$1,349,493,974
4	Cinderella	Buena Vista	2/15/1950	$85,000,000	$1,155,871,209
5	ET: The Extra-Terrestrial	Universal	6/11/1982	$435,110,554	$964,755,189
6	Titanic	Paramount Pictures	12/19/1997	$600,788,188	$925,007,090
7	Doctor Zhivago	MGM	12/22/1965	$111,721,000	$794,214,630
8	Forrest Gump	Paramount Pictures	7/6/1994	$329,694,499	$576,655,367
9	The Bridge on the River Kwai	Columbia	12/18/1957	$33,300,000	$473,453,465
10	The Bells of St. Mary's	RKO Radio Pictures	12/7/1945	$21,300,000	$434,471,594
11	The Passion of the Christ	Newmarket Films	2/25/2004	$370,782,930	$428,670,484
12	The Best Years of Our Lives	RKO Radio Pictures	11/21/1946	$23,600,000	$420,466,501
13	Cleopatra	20th Century Fox	6/12/1963	$48,000,000	$405,458,822
14	Ghost	Paramount Pictures	7/13/1990	$217,631,306	$350,737,313
15	The Caine Mutiny	Sony Pictures	6/24/1954	$21,800,000	$350,165,549
16	Saving Private Ryan	Dreamworks SKG	7/24/1998	$216,335,085	$327,834,980
17	An Officer and a Gentleman	Paramount Pictures	7/28/1982	$129,795,554	$308,005,744
18	Kramer vs. Kramer	Columbia	12/19/1979	$106,260,000	$303,962,866
19	Bonnie and Clyde	Warner Bros.	8/13/1967	$50,700,000	$303,355,000
20	Cast Away	20th Century Fox	12/22/2000	$233,632,142	$303,342,471
21	On Golden Pond	Universal	12/4/1981	$119,285,432	$290,027,886
22	Apollo 13	Universal	6/30/1995	$172,070,496	$283,958,869
23	Mr. Smith Goes To Washington	Columbia	1/1/1939	$9,000,000	$280,956,523
24	Casablanca	Warner Bros.	1/1/1942	$10,462,500	$275,167,584
25	Platoon	Orion Pictures	12/19/1986	$137,963,328	$267,001,806
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	127	28.57%	$1,511,956,562	347,576,223	$2,391,324,414	Apollo 13	$172,036,360
1996	119	23.82%	$1,331,924,275	301,340,339	$2,073,221,532	A Time to Kill	$108,706,165
1997	110	19.02%	$1,238,006,338	269,718,157	$1,855,660,920	Titanic	$157,467,971
1998	123	29.69%	$2,010,922,524	428,768,128	$2,949,924,721	Titanic	$443,319,081
1999	129	19.92%	$1,453,799,725	286,181,050	$1,968,925,624	The General's Daughter	$102,678,089
2000	154	23.56%	$1,761,955,412	326,893,395	$2,249,026,558	The Perfect Storm	$182,618,434
2001	141	18.19%	$1,478,391,113	261,199,839	$1,797,054,892	Cast Away	$123,941,038
2002	151	17.22%	$1,581,714,835	272,240,074	$1,873,011,709	A Beautiful Mind	$152,149,450
2003	149	12.29%	$1,149,079,297	190,560,414	$1,311,055,648	Seabiscuit	$120,197,488
2004	223	14.89%	$1,379,577,887	222,154,245	$1,528,421,206	The Passion of the Christ	$370,270,943
2005	265	16.00%	$1,431,841,239	223,376,165	$1,536,828,015	Million Dollar Baby	$99,378,637
2006	254	17.00%	$1,572,859,951	240,131,300	$1,652,103,344	The Departed	$120,359,613
2007	243	12.93%	$1,246,974,924	181,246,356	$1,246,974,929	American Gangster	$129,150,735
2008	250	11.27%	$1,110,169,855	154,619,753	$1,063,783,901	Twilight	$176,922,850
2009	94	13.74%	$684,517,850	95,336,742	$655,916,785	Gran Torino	$138,274,748

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