Box Office History for MPAA Rating - R

Ticket Sales and Market Share History

	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008

Top Grossing Movies 1977 - 2008, Adjusted for Ticket Price Inflation

	Movie	Distributor	Release Date	Total Gross	Inflation-Adjusted Gross
1	Saturday Night Fever	Paramount Pictures	12/16/1977	$139,486,124	$430,342,837
2	The Passion of the Christ	Newmarket Films	2/25/2004	$370,782,930	$410,109,672
3	Terminator 2: Judgment Day	Sony Pictures	7/3/1991	$204,859,496	$334,782,265
4	The Matrix Reloaded	Warner Bros.	5/15/2003	$281,553,689	$321,242,020
5	Saving Private Ryan	Dreamworks SKG	7/24/1998	$216,335,085	$314,568,096
6	Rambo: First Blood Part II	Sony/TriStar	5/22/1985	$150,415,432	$291,509,343
7	Beverly Hills Cop II	Paramount Pictures	5/20/1987	$153,665,036	$270,387,584
8	The Firm	Paramount Pictures	6/30/1993	$158,340,892	$263,136,553
9	Air Force One	Sony Pictures	7/25/1997	$172,956,409	$259,220,264
10	There's Something About Mary	20th Century Fox	7/15/1998	$176,484,651	$258,704,085
11	True Lies	20th Century Fox	7/15/1994	$146,282,411	$246,672,300
12	Lethal Weapon 3	Warner Bros.	5/15/1992	$144,731,527	$239,940,461
13	Gladiator	Sony Pictures	5/5/2000	$187,683,805	$239,503,643
14	The Amityville Horror	American International Pictures	7/27/1979	$86,432,520	$236,914,637
15	Jerry Maguire	Sony Pictures	12/13/1996	$153,952,592	$235,546,535
16	The Matrix	Warner Bros.	3/31/1999	$171,479,930	$233,158,480
17	The Wedding Crashers	New Line	7/15/2005	$209,218,368	$224,558,872
18	Apocalypse Now	MGM	8/15/1979	$78,800,000	$215,993,623
19	Ransom	Buena Vista	11/8/1996	$136,492,681	$212,035,181
20	Stripes	Sony Pictures	6/26/1981	$85,300,000	$211,102,157
21	300	Warner Bros.	3/9/2007	$210,614,939	$210,614,936
22	The Rock	Buena Vista	6/7/1996	$134,069,511	$208,687,387
23	Speed	20th Century Fox	6/10/1994	$121,248,145	$204,457,659
24	Good Will Hunting	Miramax	12/5/1997	$138,433,435	$203,315,097
25	Hannibal	MGM	2/9/2001	$165,092,266	$201,032,706

Year by Year Market Share

Year	Movies in Release	Market Share	Gross	Tickets Sold	Inflation- Adjusted Gross	Top-Grossing Movie	Gross that Year
1995	163	39.65%	$2,086,297,930	479,608,712	$3,299,707,939	Die Hard: With a Vengeance	$100,012,499
1996	159	40.06%	$2,311,076,890	522,868,070	$3,597,332,322	The Rock	$134,069,511
1997	169	41.17%	$2,562,915,173	558,369,322	$3,841,580,935	Air Force One	$172,144,501
1998	186	35.42%	$2,386,940,643	508,942,562	$3,501,524,827	Saving Private Ryan	$190,373,184
1999	221	40.66%	$2,994,138,592	591,726,993	$4,071,081,712	The Matrix	$171,479,930
2000	211	34.40%	$2,565,228,006	475,923,559	$3,274,354,086	Gladiator	$186,610,052
2001	193	27.88%	$2,265,539,511	400,980,444	$2,758,745,455	Hannibal	$165,092,266
2002	218	23.67%	$2,211,747,149	381,335,716	$2,623,589,726	8 Mile	$115,270,265
2003	202	29.08%	$2,689,949,180	446,094,391	$3,069,129,410	The Matrix Reloaded	$281,553,689
2004	188	22.60%	$2,098,099,995	337,315,117	$2,320,728,005	The Passion of the Christ	$370,270,943
2005	189	19.41%	$1,719,464,161	268,247,143	$1,845,540,344	The Wedding Crashers	$209,218,368
2006	200	21.23%	$1,968,464,379	300,528,915	$2,067,638,935	Borat	$125,601,414
2007	225	25.63%	$2,461,089,125	357,716,445	$2,461,089,142	300	$210,614,939
2008	87	18.83%	$557,562,796	81,041,102	$557,562,782	Forgetting Sarah Marshall	$44,732,340

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