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

Top Grossing Movies 1977 - 2009, Adjusted for Ticket Price Inflation

	Movie	Distributor	Release Date	Total Gross	Inflation-Adjusted Gross
1	Airport	Universal	1/1/1970	$100,489,150	$465,491,678
2	Rear Window	USA Films	9/1/1954	$27,559,601	$442,679,942
3	The Sixth Sense	Buena Vista	8/6/1999	$293,506,292	$413,439,823
4	The Fugitive	Warner Bros.	8/6/1993	$183,875,760	$299,156,883
5	Signs	Buena Vista	8/2/2002	$227,965,690	$281,700,666
6	Fatal Attraction	Paramount Pictures	9/18/1987	$156,645,693	$270,902,305
7	The Firm	Paramount Pictures	6/30/1993	$158,340,892	$249,292,307
8	The Da Vinci Code	Sony Pictures	5/19/2006	$217,536,138	$238,459,460
9	What Lies Beneath	Dreamworks SKG	7/21/2000	$155,464,351	$206,968,311
10	The Silence of the Lambs	Orion Pictures	2/14/1991	$130,726,716	$206,677,829
11	The Hunt for Red October	Paramount Pictures	3/2/1990	$120,709,866	$193,086,506
12	The Bodyguard	Warner Bros.	11/25/1992	$121,945,720	$189,054,979
13	Basic Instinct	Sony Pictures	3/20/1992	$117,727,224	$187,975,530
14	Airport 1975	Universal	10/18/1974	$47,285,152	$181,554,758
15	In the Line of Fire	Sony Pictures	7/9/1993	$102,243,874	$173,452,889
16	War Games	MGM	6/3/1983	$74,433,837	$169,661,892
17	Se7en	New Line	9/22/1995	$100,125,643	$164,813,087
18	Sleeping with the Enemy	20th Century Fox	2/8/1991	$101,599,005	$164,150,898
19	Taken	20th Century Fox	1/30/2009	$145,000,989	$145,000,990
20	Presumed Innocent	Warner Bros.	7/27/1990	$86,303,188	$139,712,935
21	The Hand That Rocks the Cradle	Buena Vista	1/10/1992	$88,036,683	$135,109,392
22	Angels & Demons	Sony Pictures	5/15/2009	$133,375,846	$133,375,845
23	Witness	Paramount Pictures	2/8/1985	$65,532,576	$132,541,946
24	The Village	Buena Vista	7/30/2004	$114,197,520	$132,032,955
25	Vanilla Sky	Paramount Pictures	12/14/2001	$100,614,858	$126,678,147
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	17	6.22%	$329,188,149	75,675,437	$520,647,007	Se7en	$87,046,142
1996	19	5.04%	$281,943,466	63,788,114	$438,862,224	Executive Decision	$56,472,312
1997	22	7.50%	$488,039,927	106,326,783	$731,528,267	Conspiracy Theory	$76,081,498
1998	18	5.01%	$339,204,296	72,325,008	$497,596,055	A Perfect Murder	$67,549,705
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	20	5.95%	$483,912,515	85,496,911	$588,218,748	Along Came a Spider	$74,058,698
2002	29	8.81%	$809,314,909	139,296,885	$958,362,569	Signs	$227,535,166
2003	19	4.09%	$382,824,712	63,486,685	$436,788,393	The Recruit	$52,784,696
2004	28	6.75%	$625,401,345	100,708,750	$692,876,200	The Village	$114,195,633
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	54	6.19%	$596,921,966	86,761,915	$596,921,975	Disturbia	$80,106,701
2008	50	7.92%	$779,895,874	108,620,590	$747,309,659	Eagle Eye	$101,401,695
2009	43	11.45%	$960,676,364	133,798,937	$920,536,687	Taken	$145,000,989

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