Box Office History for Genre - Thriller/Suspense

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	Titanic	Paramount Pictures	12/19/1997	$600,788,188	$1,016,477,150
2	Airport	Universal	1/1/1970	$100,489,150	$511,522,192
3	Rear Window	USA Films	9/1/1954	$27,559,601	$486,454,699
4	Notorious		1/1/1946	$24,464,742	$478,974,727
5	The Sixth Sense	Walt Disney Pictures	8/6/1999	$293,506,292	$454,323,148
6	The Fugitive	Warner Bros.	8/6/1993	$183,875,760	$328,739,249
7	Signs	Walt Disney Pictures	8/2/2002	$227,965,690	$309,556,860
8	Fatal Attraction	Paramount Pictures	9/18/1987	$156,645,693	$297,690,694
9	Inception	Warner Bros.	7/16/2010	$292,576,195	$292,576,136
10	The Firm	Paramount Pictures	6/30/1993	$158,340,892	$273,943,775
11	The Da Vinci Code	Sony Pictures	5/19/2006	$217,536,138	$262,039,713
12	The Bourne Ultimatum	Universal	8/3/2007	$227,471,070	$260,864,356
13	The Silence of the Lambs	Orion Pictures	2/14/1991	$130,726,716	$233,340,833
14	What Lies Beneath	Dreamworks SKG	7/21/2000	$155,464,351	$227,434,536
15	The Bourne Supremacy	Universal	7/23/2004	$176,087,450	$223,675,945
16	Basic Instinct	Sony Pictures	3/20/1992	$117,727,224	$220,313,890
17	The Bodyguard	Warner Bros.	11/25/1992	$121,945,720	$212,347,121
18	The Hunt for Red October	Paramount Pictures	3/2/1990	$120,709,866	$212,180,018
19	Airport 1975	Universal	10/18/1974	$47,285,152	$199,507,944
20	In the Line of Fire	Sony Pictures	7/9/1993	$102,243,874	$190,604,916
21	War Games	MGM	6/3/1983	$74,433,837	$186,439,043
22	Sleeping with the Enemy	20th Century Fox	2/8/1991	$101,599,005	$184,798,365
23	Se7en	New Line	9/22/1995	$100,125,643	$181,110,760
24	The Bourne Identity	Universal	6/14/2002	$121,468,960	$164,955,267
25	Spellbound	ThinkFilm	1/1/1945	$7,000,000	$156,903,412
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	18	6.22%	$329,212,569	75,681,051	$520,685,631	Se7en	$87,046,142
1996	19	5.04%	$281,943,466	63,788,114	$438,862,224	Executive Decision	$56,472,312
1997	23	9.92%	$645,507,898	140,633,530	$967,558,686	Titanic	$157,467,971
1998	19	11.55%	$782,523,377	166,849,332	$1,147,923,404	Titanic	$443,319,081
1999	15	7.86%	$574,022,658	112,996,584	$777,416,498	The Sixth Sense	$276,386,495
2000	21	7.62%	$569,881,367	105,729,382	$727,418,148	What Lies Beneath	$155,370,362
2001	21	5.95%	$483,913,181	85,497,029	$588,219,560	Along Came a Spider	$74,058,698
2002	31	10.13%	$930,831,198	160,211,909	$1,102,257,934	Signs	$227,535,166
2003	19	4.09%	$382,824,712	63,486,685	$436,788,393	The Recruit	$52,784,696
2004	29	8.65%	$801,450,475	129,058,046	$887,919,356	The Bourne Supremacy	$176,049,130
2005	27	4.97%	$444,985,038	69,420,441	$477,612,634	Flightplan	$89,160,336
2006	35	8.02%	$742,127,938	113,301,974	$779,517,581	The Da Vinci Code	$217,536,138
2007	55	8.56%	$824,393,036	119,824,571	$824,393,048	The Bourne Ultimatum	$227,471,070
2008	51	7.92%	$779,942,619	108,627,100	$747,354,448	Eagle Eye	$101,401,695
2009	51	9.07%	$965,341,597	128,712,216	$885,540,046	Taken	$145,000,989
2010	49	9.03%	$946,250,434	119,930,349	$825,120,801	Inception	$292,568,851
2011	59	9.16%	$933,437,302	117,265,993	$806,790,032	Super 8	$127,004,179
2012	12	17.97%	$167,783,128	21,078,284	$145,018,594	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	$39,952,870

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