Box Office History for Production Method - Live Action

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	Star Wars Ep. IV: A New Hope	20th Century Fox	5/25/1977	$460,998,007	$1,120,252,024
2	ET: The Extra-Terrestrial	Universal	6/11/1982	$435,110,554	$924,790,831
3	Titanic	20th Century Fox	12/19/1997	$600,788,188	$886,359,440
4	Star Wars Ep. V: The Empire Strikes Back	20th Century Fox	5/21/1980	$290,271,960	$664,482,220
5	Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi	20th Century Fox	5/25/1983	$309,205,079	$639,799,112
6	Raiders of the Lost Ark	Paramount Pictures	6/12/1981	$245,034,358	$597,144,261
7	Forrest Gump	Paramount Pictures	7/6/1994	$329,694,499	$552,694,205
8	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Sony Pictures	11/16/1977	$166,000,000	$512,143,499
9	Grease	Paramount Pictures	6/16/1978	$181,508,510	$491,810,367
10	Ghost Busters	Sony Pictures	6/8/1984	$238,632,124	$488,627,679
11	Spider-Man	Sony Pictures	5/3/2002	$403,706,375	$478,879,283
12	Independence Day	20th Century Fox	7/3/1996	$306,169,255	$476,571,147
13	Home Alone	20th Century Fox	11/16/1990	$285,761,243	$466,403,222
14	Beverly Hills Cop	Paramount Pictures	12/5/1984	$234,760,478	$464,191,048
15	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	Buena Vista	7/7/2006	$423,315,812	$444,643,172
16	Batman	Warner Bros.	6/23/1989	$251,188,924	$433,127,772
17	Saturday Night Fever	Paramount Pictures	12/16/1977	$139,486,124	$430,342,837
18	Spider-Man 2	Sony Pictures	6/30/2004	$373,524,485	$413,158,916
19	The Passion of the Christ	Newmarket Films	2/25/2004	$370,782,930	$410,109,672
20	Back to the Future	Universal	7/3/1985	$210,609,762	$406,707,891
21	The Sixth Sense	Buena Vista	8/6/1999	$293,506,292	$397,650,598
22	Superman	Warner Bros.	12/15/1978	$134,218,018	$394,623,914
23	Tootsie	Sony Pictures	12/17/1982	$177,200,000	$393,249,964
24	Smokey and the Bandit	Universal	5/27/1977	$126,737,428	$391,010,538
25	Twister	Warner Bros.	5/10/1996	$241,888,385	$376,514,048
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	299	93.02%	$4,895,085,719	1,125,307,055	$7,742,112,538	Batman Forever	$184,031,112
1996	278	93.10%	$5,370,256,730	1,214,990,209	$8,359,132,638	Independence Day	$306,169,255
1997	279	92.03%	$5,729,544,038	1,248,266,677	$8,588,074,738	Men in Black	$250,107,128
1998	306	91.91%	$6,194,081,658	1,320,699,707	$9,086,413,984	Titanic	$443,320,217
1999	332	86.00%	$6,333,149,170	1,251,610,506	$8,611,080,281	The Sixth Sense	$276,386,495
2000	378	91.40%	$6,815,187,343	1,264,413,239	$8,699,163,084	How the Grinch Stole Christmas	$253,367,455
2001	355	81.66%	$6,634,241,705	1,174,202,070	$8,078,510,242	Rush Hour 2	$226,164,286
2002	374	79.83%	$7,458,025,223	1,285,866,425	$8,846,761,004	Spider-Man	$403,706,375
2003	387	84.70%	$7,834,244,140	1,299,211,297	$8,938,573,723	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	$305,411,224
2004	572	80.89%	$7,510,380,947	1,207,456,746	$8,307,302,412	Spider-Man 2	$373,524,485
2005	619	76.64%	$6,788,099,006	1,058,985,802	$7,285,822,318	The Wedding Crashers	$209,218,368
2006	587	84.52%	$7,838,487,345	1,196,715,637	$8,233,403,583	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	$423,315,812
2007	647	81.17%	$7,793,670,667	1,132,800,974	$7,793,670,701	Spider-Man 3	$336,530,303
2008	296	91.63%	$2,857,763,390	415,372,580	$2,857,763,350	Iron Man	$177,134,000

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