Box Office History for Genre - Drama

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	ET: The Extra-Terrestrial	Universal	6/11/1982	$435,110,554	$924,790,831
2	Titanic	20th Century Fox	12/19/1997	$600,788,188	$886,359,440
3	Forrest Gump	Paramount Pictures	7/6/1994	$329,694,499	$552,694,205
4	Saturday Night Fever	Paramount Pictures	12/16/1977	$139,486,124	$430,342,837
5	The Passion of the Christ	Newmarket Films	2/25/2004	$370,782,930	$410,109,672
6	Ghost	Paramount Pictures	7/13/1990	$217,631,306	$354,811,232
7	Saving Private Ryan	Dreamworks SKG	7/24/1998	$216,335,085	$314,568,096
8	An Officer and a Gentleman	Paramount Pictures	7/28/1982	$129,795,554	$300,561,070
9	Cast Away	20th Century Fox	12/22/2000	$233,632,142	$290,936,665
10	On Golden Pond	Universal	12/4/1981	$119,285,432	$279,254,501
11	Apollo 13	Universal	6/30/1995	$172,070,496	$272,148,280
12	Kramer vs. Kramer	Columbia	12/19/1979	$106,260,000	$271,772,790
13	Rocky IV	MGM	11/27/1985	$127,873,716	$245,626,802
14	Platoon	Orion Pictures	12/19/1986	$137,963,328	$242,759,004
15	A Few Good Men	Sony Pictures	12/11/1992	$141,340,178	$234,575,169
16	The Perfect Storm	Warner Bros.	6/30/2000	$182,618,434	$233,101,080
17	Terms of Endearment	Paramount Pictures	11/23/1983	$108,423,489	$227,440,629
18	Good Will Hunting	Miramax	12/5/1997	$138,433,435	$203,315,097
19	A Beautiful Mind	Universal	12/21/2001	$170,708,996	$203,080,668
20	Flashdance	Paramount Pictures	4/15/1983	$90,463,574	$197,583,934
21	Catch Me if You Can	Dreamworks SKG	12/25/2002	$164,606,800	$192,218,648
22	The Truman Show	Paramount Pictures	6/5/1998	$125,618,201	$184,275,743
23	The Green Mile	Warner Bros.	12/10/1999	$136,801,374	$181,001,916
24	Pulp Fiction	Miramax	10/14/1994	$107,928,762	$177,359,671
25	Indecent Proposal	Paramount Pictures	4/7/1993	$106,614,059	$177,175,053
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	128	28.93%	$1,522,308,073	349,955,879	$2,407,696,448	Apollo 13	$172,070,496
1996	109	23.42%	$1,350,761,928	305,602,245	$2,102,543,446	A Time to Kill	$108,766,007
1997	104	19.67%	$1,224,545,064	266,785,416	$1,835,483,662	Titanic	$157,467,971
1998	116	29.87%	$2,012,924,037	429,194,888	$2,952,860,829	Titanic	$443,320,217
1999	126	20.10%	$1,480,358,438	292,560,957	$2,012,819,384	The General's Daughter	$102,705,852
2000	153	23.67%	$1,765,134,645	327,483,236	$2,253,084,664	The Perfect Storm	$182,618,434
2001	139	18.15%	$1,474,985,719	261,059,412	$1,796,088,755	Cast Away	$123,942,702
2002	149	17.51%	$1,635,955,913	282,061,370	$1,940,582,226	A Beautiful Mind	$152,149,450
2003	145	11.98%	$1,108,058,124	183,757,564	$1,264,252,040	Seabiscuit	$120,277,854
2004	221	15.49%	$1,438,102,499	231,206,186	$1,590,698,560	The Passion of the Christ	$370,270,943
2005	264	16.04%	$1,420,682,637	221,635,353	$1,524,851,229	Million Dollar Baby	$99,448,054
2006	247	16.83%	$1,560,689,191	238,273,167	$1,639,319,389	The Departed	$120,359,613
2007	240	13.26%	$1,273,529,693	185,106,064	$1,273,529,720	American Gangster	$129,018,725
2008	98	12.59%	$392,746,773	57,085,285	$392,746,761	Step Up 2 the Streets	$57,899,456

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