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	2010	2011	2012

Top Grossing Movies 1977 - 2012, 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	$3,665,355,125
2	Bambi	Walt Disney Pictures	8/13/1942	$102,797,000	$2,970,946,267
3	Lady and the Tramp	Walt Disney Pictures	6/22/1955	$93,600,000	$1,482,939,757
4	Cinderella	Walt Disney Pictures	2/15/1950	$85,000,000	$1,270,170,451
5	The Ten Commandments		10/5/1956	$80,000,000	$1,270,020,123
6	ET: The Extra-Terrestrial	Universal	6/11/1982	$435,110,554	$1,060,155,772
7	Doctor Zhivago	MGM	12/22/1965	$111,721,000	$872,751,174
8	Forrest Gump	Paramount Pictures	7/6/1994	$329,694,499	$633,678,391
9	The Bridge on the River Kwai	Sony Pictures	12/18/1957	$33,300,000	$520,271,287
10	American Graffiti	Universal	8/11/1973	$115,000,000	$512,627,115
11	The Bells of St. Mary's	RKO Radio Pictures	12/7/1945	$21,300,000	$477,434,662
12	The Passion of the Christ	Newmarket Films	2/25/2004	$370,782,930	$471,059,905
13	The Best Years of Our Lives	RKO Radio Pictures	11/21/1946	$23,600,000	$462,044,665
14	Cleopatra	20th Century Fox	6/12/1963	$48,000,000	$445,552,939
15	Ghost	Paramount Pictures	7/13/1990	$217,631,306	$385,420,251
16	The Caine Mutiny	Sony Pictures	6/24/1954	$21,800,000	$384,791,947
17	Saving Private Ryan	Dreamworks SKG	7/24/1998	$216,335,085	$360,253,203
18	An Officer and a Gentleman	Paramount Pictures	7/28/1982	$129,795,554	$338,463,137
19	Kramer vs. Kramer	Sony/Columbia	12/19/1979	$106,260,000	$334,020,475
20	Bonnie and Clyde	Warner Bros.	8/13/1967	$50,700,000	$333,352,500
21	Cast Away	20th Century Fox	12/22/2000	$233,632,142	$333,338,732
22	On Golden Pond	Universal	12/4/1981	$119,285,432	$318,707,524
23	Apollo 13	Universal	6/30/1995	$172,070,496	$312,038,367
24	The Twilight Saga: New Moon	Summit Entertainment	11/20/2009	$296,623,634	$311,597,277
25	Mr. Smith Goes To Washington	Sony Pictures	1/1/1939	$9,000,000	$308,739,132
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	120	23.84%	$1,332,949,763	301,572,350	$2,074,817,768	A Time to Kill	$108,706,165
1997	111	16.61%	$1,080,783,289	235,464,770	$1,619,997,618	Contact	$100,769,177
1998	123	23.15%	$1,567,636,511	334,250,855	$2,299,645,882	Saving Private Ryan	$190,373,184
1999	129	19.92%	$1,453,799,725	286,181,050	$1,968,925,624	The General's Daughter	$102,678,089
2000	155	23.56%	$1,762,021,538	326,905,664	$2,249,110,968	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	152	17.22%	$1,581,733,887	272,243,354	$1,873,034,276	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	17.01%	$1,573,556,776	240,237,685	$1,652,835,273	The Departed	$120,359,613
2007	244	12.96%	$1,247,876,781	181,377,440	$1,247,876,787	American Gangster	$129,150,735
2008	252	11.27%	$1,110,325,801	154,641,471	$1,063,933,320	Twilight	$176,922,850
2009	171	17.10%	$1,820,184,744	242,691,300	$1,669,716,144	The Twilight Saga: New Moon	$287,954,655
2010	193	16.15%	$1,692,007,087	214,449,564	$1,475,413,000	The Twilight Saga: Eclipse	$300,531,751
2011	238	14.59%	$1,487,712,004	186,898,490	$1,285,861,611	The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1	$276,125,476
2012	53	22.62%	$211,272,711	26,541,796	$182,607,556	Shame	$34,990,751

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