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Friday, November 20, 2009

Box Office History for Genre - Western

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

 MovieDistributorRelease DateTotal GrossInflation-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

YearMovies in
Release
Market
Share
GrossTickets SoldInflation-
Adjusted
Gross
Top-Grossing MovieGross 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