Box Office History for Distributor - Sony Pictures

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	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Sony Pictures	11/16/1977	$166,000,000	$512,143,499
2	Ghost Busters	Sony Pictures	6/8/1984	$238,632,124	$486,679,525
3	Spider-Man	Sony Pictures	5/3/2002	$403,706,375	$478,879,283
4	Spider-Man 2	Sony Pictures	6/30/2004	$373,524,485	$413,158,916
5	Tootsie	Sony Pictures	12/17/1982	$177,200,000	$393,249,964
6	Men in Black	Sony Pictures	7/2/1997	$250,690,539	$375,744,079
7	Spider-Man 3	Sony Pictures	5/4/2007	$336,530,303	$336,530,301
8	Terminator 2: Judgment Day	Sony Pictures	7/3/1991	$204,859,496	$334,782,265
9	Air Force One	Sony Pictures	7/25/1997	$172,956,409	$259,220,264
10	Gladiator	Sony Pictures	5/5/2000	$187,683,805	$239,503,643
11	Look Who's Talking	Sony Pictures	10/13/1989	$140,088,813	$239,213,692
12	Jerry Maguire	Sony Pictures	12/13/1996	$153,952,592	$235,546,535
13	A Few Good Men	Sony Pictures	12/11/1992	$141,340,178	$234,575,169
14	The Da Vinci Code	Sony Pictures	5/19/2006	$217,536,138	$228,495,973
15	Men in Black 2	Sony Pictures	7/3/2002	$190,418,803	$225,876,097
16	Big Daddy	Sony Pictures	6/25/1999	$163,479,795	$222,280,829
17	As Good as it Gets	Sony Pictures	12/24/1997	$148,478,011	$219,111,447
18	Stripes	Sony Pictures	6/26/1981	$85,300,000	$211,102,157
19	Sleepless in Seattle	Sony Pictures	6/25/1993	$126,680,884	$210,522,819
20	City Slickers	Sony Pictures	6/7/1991	$124,033,791	$202,696,551
21	Godzilla	Sony Pictures	5/20/1998	$136,314,294	$199,966,381
22	Hook	Sony Pictures	12/11/1991	$119,654,823	$196,428,486
23	Basic Instinct	Sony Pictures	3/20/1992	$117,727,224	$195,171,881
24	Total Recall	Sony Pictures	6/1/1990	$119,394,839	$194,653,198
25	Ghostbusters II	Sony Pictures	6/16/1989	$112,494,738	$193,975,890
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	31	12.96%	$681,805,920	156,736,994	$1,078,350,519	Legends of the Fall	$66,038,210
1996	36	10.42%	$601,316,451	136,044,448	$935,985,802	Jerry Maguire	$83,006,355
1997	32	20.17%	$1,255,688,316	273,570,441	$1,882,164,634	Men in Black	$250,107,128
1998	36	10.18%	$686,138,697	146,298,228	$1,006,531,809	Godzilla	$136,314,294
1999	36	8.53%	$628,153,652	124,141,039	$854,090,348	Big Daddy	$163,479,795
2000	31	11.66%	$869,311,906	161,282,359	$1,109,622,630	Gladiator	$186,610,052
2001	29	8.86%	$719,606,966	127,364,065	$876,264,767	America's Sweethearts	$93,607,673
2002	32	16.77%	$1,566,299,128	270,051,575	$1,857,954,836	Spider-Man	$403,706,375
2003	32	12.81%	$1,184,470,796	196,429,652	$1,351,436,006	Bad Boys II	$138,540,870
2004	34	14.26%	$1,324,171,770	212,889,351	$1,464,678,735	Spider-Man 2	$373,524,485
2005	22	8.53%	$755,916,384	117,927,674	$811,342,397	Hitch	$177,784,257
2006	26	16.69%	$1,547,609,618	236,276,276	$1,625,580,779	The Da Vinci Code	$217,536,138
2007	24	10.72%	$1,029,494,440	149,635,821	$1,029,494,448	Spider-Man 3	$336,530,303
2008	9	7.15%	$338,318,263	49,174,166	$338,318,262	You Don't Mess With the Zohan	$91,190,129

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