Box Office Performance for R Movies in 2008

Rank	Movie	Genre	MPAA	2008 Gross	Tickets Sold	Inflation- Adjusted Gross
1	Sex and the City	Comedy	R	$149,870,455	21,783,496	$149,870,452
2	Wanted	Action	R	$123,979,545	18,020,283	$123,979,547
3	The Happening	Thriller/Suspense	R	$63,778,048	9,270,065	$63,778,047
4	Forgetting Sarah Marshall	Comedy	R	$62,932,375	9,147,148	$62,932,378
5	The Strangers	Thriller/Suspense	R	$52,549,645	7,638,030	$52,549,646
6	Rambo	Action	R	$42,724,402	6,209,942	$42,724,401
7	There Will Be Blood	Drama	R	$39,907,597	5,800,523	$39,907,598
8	Atonement	Drama	R	$39,743,016	5,776,601	$39,743,015
9	Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay	Comedy	R	$38,108,728	5,539,059	$38,108,726
10	Semi-Pro	Comedy	R	$33,472,850	4,865,240	$33,472,851
11	No Country for Old Men	Action	R	$33,205,061	4,826,317	$33,205,061
12	Charlie Wilson's War	Drama	R	$31,910,305	4,638,126	$31,910,307
13	The Bank Job	Thriller/Suspense	R	$30,060,660	4,369,282	$30,060,660
14	Untraceable	Thriller/Suspense	R	$28,687,835	4,169,743	$28,687,832
15	Street Kings	Thriller/Suspense	R	$26,415,649	3,839,484	$26,415,650
16	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street	Musical	R	$25,984,477	3,776,814	$25,984,480
17	The Ruins	Horror	R	$17,432,844	2,533,844	$17,432,847
18	88 Minutes	Drama	R	$16,930,884	2,460,884	$16,930,882
19	Aliens vs. Predator - Requiem	Action	R	$14,907,624	2,166,806	$14,907,625
20	Doomsday	Action	R	$10,955,425	1,592,358	$10,955,423
21	Stop-Loss	Drama	R	$10,915,744	1,586,591	$10,915,746
22	Michael Clayton	Drama	R	$9,892,860	1,437,916	$9,892,862
23	Smart People	Romantic Comedy	R	$9,511,289	1,382,455	$9,511,290
24	In Bruges	Comedy	R	$7,786,213	1,131,717	$7,786,213
25	The Orphanage	Horror	R	$6,925,824	1,006,660	$6,925,821
26	Strange Wilderness	Comedy	R	$6,575,282	955,710	$6,575,285
27	Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story	Comedy	R	$5,893,907	856,673	$5,893,910
28	The Counterfeiters	Drama	R	$5,458,024	793,317	$5,458,021
29	Shine a Light	Documentary	R	$5,371,629	780,760	$5,371,629
30	The Savages	Drama	R	$4,919,815	715,089	$4,919,812
31	Mongol	Drama	R	$4,867,490	707,484	$4,867,490
32	Deception	Thriller/Suspense	R	$4,597,760	668,279	$4,597,760
33	Charlie Bartlett	Comedy	R	$3,950,294	574,171	$3,950,296
34	Then She Found Me	Romantic Comedy	R	$3,660,690	532,077	$3,660,690
35	Redbelt	Action	R	$2,344,847	340,821	$2,344,848
36	Roman de Gare	Drama	R	$1,648,734	239,642	$1,648,737
37	Into the Wild	Drama	R	$1,363,057	198,119	$1,363,059
38	Funny Games	Thriller/Suspense	R	$1,294,640	188,174	$1,294,637
39	I'm Not There	Drama	R	$1,232,174	179,095	$1,232,174
40	American Gangster	Drama	R	$1,145,920	166,558	$1,145,919
41	Diary of the Dead	Horror	R	$952,620	138,462	$952,619
42	The Wackness	Comedy	R	$742,897	107,979	$742,896
43	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead	Drama	R	$661,340	96,125	$661,340
44	Fugitive Pieces	Drama	R	$608,810	88,490	$608,811
45	Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland	Documentary	R	$603,564	87,727	$603,562
46	Reprise	Drama	R	$549,742	79,904	$549,740
47	War, Inc.	Comedy	R	$541,284	78,675	$541,284
48	Paranoid Park	Drama	R	$486,021	70,643	$486,024
49	Hitman	Action	R	$480,250	69,804	$480,252
50	The Hammer	Comedy	R	$442,638	64,337	$442,639
51	The Promotion	Comedy	R	$406,252	59,048	$406,250
52	Snow Angels	Drama	R	$402,858	58,555	$402,858
53	Teeth	Comedy	R	$344,655	50,095	$344,654
54	Awake	Thriller/Suspense	R	$318,338	46,270	$318,338
55	City of Men	Drama	R	$307,076	44,633	$307,075
56	Life Before Her Eyes	Drama	R	$303,439	44,105	$303,442
57	The Mist	Horror	R	$297,020	43,172	$297,023
58	Taxi to the Dark Side	Documentary	R	$274,661	39,922	$274,663
59	Surfwise	Documentary	R	$260,053	37,798	$260,050
60	The Signal	Horror	R	$251,150	36,504	$251,148
61	My Brother Is an Only Child	Drama	R	$251,004	36,483	$251,003
62	Margot at the Wedding	Drama	R	$230,490	33,501	$230,487
63	The Foot Fist Way	Comedy	R	$230,325	33,477	$230,322
64	Standard Operating Procedure	Documentary	R	$228,007	33,141	$228,010
65	The Darjeeling Limited	Adventure	R	$211,267	30,707	$211,264
66	Chicago 10	Documentary	R	$176,545	25,661	$176,548
67	Sleepwalking	Drama	R	$168,972	24,560	$168,973
68	Shelter	Drama	R	$142,666	20,736	$142,664
69	Nanking	Documentary	R	$138,788	20,173	$138,790
70	The Grand	Comedy	R	$115,879	16,843	$115,880
71	Bra Boys	Documentary	R	$113,730	16,531	$113,733
72	Youth Without Youth	Thriller/Suspense	R	$110,516	16,063	$110,513
73	Pathology	Thriller/Suspense	R	$109,045	15,850	$109,048
74	Little Chenier	Drama	R	$87,939	12,782	$87,940
75	Control	Drama	R	$70,465	10,242	$70,465
76	Stuck	Thriller/Suspense	R	$67,505	9,812	$67,507
77	Romance and Cigarettes	Comedy	R	$67,403	9,797	$67,403
78	Lions for Lambs	Drama	R	$63,519	9,232	$63,516
79	Meet Bill	Comedy	R	$59,108	8,591	$59,106
80	Holly	Drama	R	$58,769	8,542	$58,769
81	Finding Amanda	Comedy	R	$57,297	8,328	$57,297
82	Chapter 27	Drama	R	$56,215	8,171	$56,216
83	Boarding Gate	Thriller/Suspense	R	$50,440	7,331	$50,437
84	The Babysitters	Drama	R	$44,852	6,519	$44,851
85	Irina Palm	Drama	R	$44,064	6,405	$44,066
86	Transsiberian	Thriller/Suspense	R	$35,216	5,119	$35,219
87	Kiss the Bride	Romantic Comedy	R	$32,033	4,656	$32,033
88	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford	Action	R	$31,926	4,640	$31,923
89	Baghead	Drama	R	$31,278	4,546	$31,276
90	Dark Matter	Drama	R	$30,591	4,446	$30,588
91	The Air I Breathe	Drama	R	$25,775	3,746	$25,772
92	The Walker	Drama	R	$24,964	3,628	$24,961
93	Sex and Death 101	Comedy	R	$23,563	3,425	$23,564
94	America the Beautiful	Documentary	R	$22,577	3,282	$22,580
95	The Cry	Thriller/Suspense	R	$21,427	3,114	$21,424
96	Day Zero	Drama	R	$13,800	2,006	$13,801
97	In the Valley of Elah	Drama	R	$12,718	1,849	$12,721
98	The Go-Getter	Drama	R	$11,931	1,734	$11,930
99	August	Drama	R	$11,762	1,710	$11,765
100	Rogue	Horror	R	$10,452	1,519	$10,451
101	Sleuth	Thriller/Suspense	R	$9,866	1,434	$9,866
102	Anamorph	Thriller/Suspense	R	$6,873	999	$6,873
103	Red Roses and Petrol	Drama	R	$6,000	872	$5,999
104	Romulus, My Father	Drama	R	$4,283	623	$4,286
105	Vivere	Drama	R	$3,547	516	$3,550
106	Ripple Effect	Drama	R	$3,309	481	$3,309
107	Turn the River	Drama	R	$2,900	422	$2,903
108	Fat Girls	Comedy	R	$2,000	291	$2,002
109	Edgar Allan Poe's House of Usher	Horror	R	$1,677	244	$1,679
110	On the Other Hand, Death: A Donald Strachey Mystery	Thriller/Suspense	R	$1,537	223	$1,534
111	Miss Conception	Comedy	R	$1,503	218	$1,500
112	Take	Drama	R	$1,264	184	$1,266
113	Looking for Cheyenne	Drama	R	$808	117	$805
Total Gross of All Movies				$995,488,676
Total Tickets Sold					144,693,123
Total Gross of All Movies at 2008 ticket prices						$995,488,686

Note: This chart ranks movies by the amount they earned during 2008. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money during 2008. For example, a movie released over Thanksgiving in 2007 will most likely earn money in 2007 and 2008. Click on the individual movie to see its total gross over all the years in which it played.

Each box office year ends on the first Sunday of the following year. The next year starts the following day (Monday). For example, the "2004 box office year" ended on Sunday, January 2, 2005.

Inflation-adjusted figures are based ticket sale estimates, and may not be precise due to rounding errors.