Box Office History for Genre - Western
Ticket Sales and Market Share History
Top Grossing Movies 1977 - 2009, Adjusted for Ticket Price Inflation
| | Movie | Distributor | Release Date | Total Gross | Inflation-Adjusted Gross |
| 1 |
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
|
20th Century Fox
|
10/24/1969 |
$102,308,900 |
$517,308,381 |
| 2 |
How the West Was Won
|
|
2/20/1963 |
$46,500,000 |
$392,788,233 |
| 3 |
Dances with Wolves
|
Orion Pictures
|
11/9/1990 |
$184,208,842 |
$294,025,488 |
| 4 |
Maverick
|
Warner Bros.
|
5/20/1994 |
$101,631,272 |
$177,599,325 |
| 5 |
Unforgiven
|
Warner Bros.
|
8/7/1992 |
$101,157,447 |
$171,684,240 |
| 6 |
Paint Your Wagon
|
Paramount Pictures
|
10/15/1969 |
$31,678,778 |
$160,178,613 |
| 7 |
Cat Ballou
|
Sony Pictures
|
6/24/1965 |
$20,666,667 |
$146,917,497 |
| 8 |
The Big Country
|
United Artists
|
1/1/1958 |
$10,000,000 |
$105,588,233 |
| 9 |
Apache
|
United Artists
|
1/1/1954 |
$6,000,000 |
$96,375,840 |
| 10 |
The Outlaw Josey Wales
|
Warner Bros.
|
1/1/1976 |
$27,000,000 |
$91,014,082 |
| 11 |
Pale Rider
|
Warner Bros.
|
6/28/1985 |
$41,410,568 |
$83,754,334 |
| 12 |
Tombstone
|
Buena Vista
|
12/25/1993 |
$56,505,000 |
$82,726,079 |
| 13 |
The Alamo
|
United Artists
|
10/24/1960 |
$7,900,000 |
$82,205,795 |
| 14 |
Hidalgo
|
Buena Vista
|
3/5/2004 |
$67,286,731 |
$77,796,894 |
| 15 |
Shanghai Noon
|
Buena Vista
|
5/26/2000 |
$56,932,305 |
$75,839,324 |
| 16 |
Across the Wide Missouri
|
MGM
|
1/1/1951 |
$5,500,000 |
$74,791,669 |
| 17 |
Open Range
|
Buena Vista
|
8/15/2003 |
$58,328,680 |
$69,452,722 |
| 18 |
Young Guns II
|
20th Century Fox
|
8/1/1990 |
$44,143,410 |
$68,871,235 |
| 19 |
Young Guns
|
20th Century Fox
|
8/12/1988 |
$44,726,644 |
$67,587,997 |
| 20 |
High Plains Drifter
|
Universal
|
1/1/1972 |
$15,700,000 |
$66,309,411 |
| 21 |
Bandolero!
|
20th Century Fox
|
1/1/1968 |
$12,000,000 |
$65,770,990 |
| 22 |
Silverado
|
Columbia
|
7/10/1985 |
$33,200,000 |
$64,876,297 |
| 23 |
Across the Great Divide
|
|
1/1/1976 |
$18,800,000 |
$63,372,769 |
| 24 |
3:10 to Yuma
|
Lionsgate
|
9/7/2007 |
$53,606,916 |
$55,944,428 |
| 25 |
The Bravados
|
20th Century Fox
|
1/1/1958 |
$4,400,000 |
$46,458,822 |
| 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 |
3 |
.55% |
$28,949,455 |
6,655,047 |
$45,786,723 |
The Quick and the Dead
|
$18,543,650 |
| 1999 |
1 |
.01% |
$491,069 |
96,667 |
$665,069 |
Ride With the Devil
|
$491,069 |
| 2000 |
4 |
.88% |
$66,116,168 |
12,266,450 |
$84,393,176 |
Shanghai Noon
|
$56,932,305 |
| 2001 |
4 |
.26% |
$20,993,355 |
3,709,073 |
$25,518,422 |
American Outlaws
|
$13,264,986 |
| 2003 |
2 |
.90% |
$84,450,484 |
14,005,055 |
$96,354,778 |
Open Range
|
$58,328,680 |
| 2004 |
4 |
.98% |
$90,475,689 |
14,569,353 |
$100,237,149 |
Hidalgo
|
$67,286,731 |
| 2006 |
2 |
.01% |
$584,825 |
89,286 |
$614,288 |
Down in the Valley
|
$568,932 |
| 2007 |
5 |
.61% |
$58,865,921 |
8,556,094 |
$58,865,927 |
3:10 to Yuma
|
$53,606,916 |
| 2008 |
4 |
.21% |
$20,317,697 |
2,829,762 |
$19,468,763 |
Appaloosa
|
$20,080,574 |
| 2009 |
2 |
.00% |
$169,704 |
23,636 |
$162,616 |
Appaloosa
|
$130,820 |
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