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Market Share for Each Distributor in 2009
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Note: This chart ranks distributors by the amount they earned at the domestic box office during 2009. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money during 2009. For example, a movie released over Thanksgiving in 2008 will most likely earn money in 2008 and 2009.
Top Grossing of 2009
| Rank | Distributor | Movies | 2009 Gross | Tickets | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Warner Bros. | 36 | $2,130,619,667 | 284,082,623 | 20.03% |
| 2 | 20th Century Fox | 22 | $1,460,228,750 | 194,697,168 | 13.72% |
| 3 | Paramount Pictures | 16 | $1,460,075,602 | 194,676,748 | 13.72% |
| 4 | Sony Pictures | 24 | $1,447,935,464 | 193,058,052 | 13.61% |
| 5 | Walt Disney | 23 | $1,205,647,954 | 160,753,063 | 11.33% |
| 6 | Universal | 21 | $898,333,720 | 119,777,823 | 8.44% |
| 7 | Summit Entertainment | 11 | $480,408,885 | 64,054,511 | 4.52% |
| 8 | Lionsgate | 12 | $402,012,617 | 53,601,681 | 3.78% |
| 9 | Fox Searchlight | 11 | $246,172,026 | 32,822,936 | 2.31% |
| 10 | Weinstein Co. | 9 | $179,077,081 | 23,876,939 | 1.68% |
| 11 | Focus Features | 10 | $159,098,145 | 21,213,082 | 1.50% |
| 12 | Overture Films | 8 | $157,614,161 | 21,015,218 | 1.48% |
| 13 | Paramount Vantage | 5 | $65,267,365 | 8,702,315 | 0.61% |
| 14 | Miramax | 8 | $54,736,063 | 7,298,138 | 0.51% |
| 15 | Sony Pictures Classics | 26 | $49,395,750 | 6,586,088 | 0.46% |
| 16 | Weinstein/Dimension | 1 | $33,392,973 | 4,452,396 | 0.31% |
| 17 | MGM | 5 | $22,997,234 | 3,066,296 | 0.22% |
| 18 | United Artists | 1 | $22,373,908 | 2,983,188 | 0.21% |
| 19 | Apparition | 4 | $17,101,506 | 2,280,199 | 0.16% |
| 20 | Roadside Attractions | 14 | $13,123,419 | 1,749,783 | 0.12% |
| 21 | Freestyle Releasing | 6 | $12,781,745 | 1,704,229 | 0.12% |
| 22 | Magnolia Pictures | 27 | $12,526,258 | 1,670,156 | 0.12% |
| 23 | IFC Films | 25 | $9,619,636 | 1,282,606 | 0.09% |
| 24 | IMAX Films | 4 | $7,938,908 | 1,058,518 | 0.07% |
| 25 | Big Pictures | 7 | $5,257,818 | 701,040 | 0.05% |
| 26 | Eros Entertainment | 4 | $4,507,401 | 600,985 | 0.04% |
| 27 | UTV Communications | 8 | $4,111,186 | 548,154 | 0.04% |
| 28 | National Geographic Entertainment | 3 | $3,465,013 | 462,001 | 0.03% |
| 29 | Samuel Goldwyn Films | 6 | $2,991,864 | 398,913 | 0.03% |
| 30 | Regent Releasing | 17 | $2,610,964 | 348,123 | 0.02% |
| 31 | Stony Island Entertainment | 1 | $2,026,756 | 270,234 | 0.02% |
| 32 | 3D Entertainment | 1 | $2,013,083 | 268,411 | 0.02% |
| 33 | Oscilloscope Pictures | 7 | $1,953,847 | 260,509 | 0.02% |
| 34 | Truly Indie | 5 | $1,771,585 | 236,208 | 0.02% |
| 35 | Music Box Films | 4 | $1,693,756 | 225,833 | 0.02% |
| 36 | Yash Raj Films | 5 | $1,667,903 | 222,385 | 0.02% |
| 37 | Vivendi Entertainment | 3 | $1,632,869 | 217,714 | 0.02% |
| 38 | TVA Films | 1 | $1,548,858 | 206,514 | 0.01% |
| 39 | First Look | 1 | $1,433,091 | 191,078 | 0.01% |
| 40 | International Film Circuit | 3 | $1,295,474 | 172,728 | 0.01% |
| 41 | Five & Two Pictures | 1 | $1,167,623 | 155,683 | 0.01% |
| 42 | Indican Pictures | 6 | $1,078,570 | 143,808 | 0.01% |
| 43 | Viva Entertainment | 3 | $1,076,815 | 143,574 | 0.01% |
| 44 | Equinox | 1 | $960,240 | 128,032 | 0.01% |
| 45 | After Dark | 2 | $863,172 | 115,088 | 0.01% |
| 46 | Zeitgeist | 12 | $810,711 | 108,089 | 0.01% |
| 47 | Screen Media Films | 7 | $808,358 | 107,778 | 0.01% |
| 48 | Slowhand Cinema | 2 | $782,058 | 104,274 | 0.01% |
| 49 | Gener8xion Entertainment | 1 | $741,557 | 98,874 | 0.01% |
| 50 | Abramorama Films | 3 | $740,280 | 98,702 | 0.01% |
| 51 | Strand Releasing | 15 | $731,955 | 97,586 | 0.01% |
| 52 | Shorts International | 1 | $644,635 | 85,951 | 0.01% |
| 53 | AdLab Films | 2 | $593,968 | 79,195 | 0.01% |
| 54 | Vitagraph Films | 2 | $532,706 | 71,026 | 0.01% |
| 55 | Cinema Guild | 7 | $524,230 | 69,895 | 0.00% |
| 56 | American Zoetrope | 1 | $518,522 | 69,136 | 0.00% |
| 57 | Elephant Eye Films | 1 | $492,776 | 65,703 | 0.00% |
| 58 | Shadow | 4 | $480,260 | 64,033 | 0.00% |
| 59 | Janus Films | 6 | $462,246 | 61,631 | 0.00% |
| 60 | First Run Features | 13 | $443,970 | 59,191 | 0.00% |
| 61 | Zipporah | 1 | $417,932 | 55,724 | 0.00% |
| 62 | Full Circle Releasing | 1 | $397,641 | 53,018 | 0.00% |
| 63 | First Independent Pictures | 3 | $334,666 | 44,621 | 0.00% |
| 64 | Arthouse Films | 3 | $327,388 | 43,650 | 0.00% |
| 65 | Self Distributed | 7 | $325,585 | 43,409 | 0.00% |
| 66 | Senator Entertainment | 1 | $315,000 | 42,000 | 0.00% |
| 67 | Studio 18 | 1 | $300,293 | 40,039 | 0.00% |
| 68 | Balcony Releasing | 3 | $270,257 | 36,033 | 0.00% |
| 69 | Argot Pictures | 3 | $232,707 | 31,027 | 0.00% |
| 70 | Anchor Bay Entertainment | 7 | $222,411 | 29,652 | 0.00% |
| 71 | Lorber Films | 6 | $221,912 | 29,586 | 0.00% |
| 72 | Kino/Emerging | 1 | $204,458 | 27,261 | 0.00% |
| 73 | Elysian Films | 1 | $203,305 | 27,107 | 0.00% |
| 74 | Image Entertainment | 3 | $200,877 | 26,782 | 0.00% |
| 75 | Monterey Media | 11 | $186,799 | 24,900 | 0.00% |
| 76 | Third Rail | 2 | $175,072 | 23,342 | 0.00% |
| 77 | Variance Films/Everest Films | 1 | $173,828 | 23,177 | 0.00% |
| 78 | Rialto Pictures | 3 | $171,207 | 22,826 | 0.00% |
| 79 | Blue Water Entertainment | 1 | $169,340 | 22,578 | 0.00% |
| 80 | Variance Films | 5 | $165,700 | 22,092 | 0.00% |
| 81 | Film Movement | 8 | $161,158 | 21,486 | 0.00% |
| 82 | Maya Releasing | 4 | $160,892 | 21,449 | 0.00% |
| 83 | Seventh Art Releasing | 1 | $139,418 | 18,589 | 0.00% |
| 84 | Peace Arch Releasing | 3 | $130,547 | 17,405 | 0.00% |
| 85 | Empire Pictures | 1 | $123,670 | 16,489 | 0.00% |
| 86 | Paladin | 3 | $115,847 | 15,445 | 0.00% |
| 87 | Eleven Arts | 2 | $112,767 | 15,034 | 0.00% |
| 88 | ThinkFilm | 4 | $110,407 | 14,719 | 0.00% |
| 89 | Rainbow Releasing | 1 | $110,175 | 14,690 | 0.00% |
| 90 | The Film Desk | 5 | $106,612 | 14,212 | 0.00% |
| 91 | Kino International | 5 | $94,165 | 12,553 | 0.00% |
| 92 | Westchester Films | 1 | $88,453 | 11,793 | 0.00% |
| 93 | Emerging Pictures | 1 | $79,340 | 10,578 | 0.00% |
| 94 | Mitropoulos Films | 2 | $63,352 | 8,446 | 0.00% |
| 95 | Thunderstruck Films | 1 | $61,941 | 8,258 | 0.00% |
| 96 | Pallisades Tartan | 1 | $60,200 | 8,026 | 0.00% |
| 97 | Cinema Libre | 3 | $60,166 | 8,022 | 0.00% |
| 98 | Cinedigm | 1 | $55,000 | 7,333 | 0.00% |
| 99 | Audience Alliance | 1 | $50,076 | 6,676 | 0.00% |
| 100 | GR Films | 1 | $47,552 | 6,340 | 0.00% |
| 101 | Wave Releasing | 1 | $47,071 | 6,276 | 0.00% |
| 102 | Koch Lorber Films | 1 | $45,835 | 6,111 | 0.00% |
| 103 | Bev Pictures | 1 | $44,802 | 5,973 | 0.00% |
| 104 | City Lights Pictures | 1 | $38,557 | 5,140 | 0.00% |
| 105 | SPEAKproductions | 1 | $36,592 | 4,878 | 0.00% |
| 106 | 7-57 Releasing | 1 | $35,817 | 4,775 | 0.00% |
| 107 | Mypheduh Film | 1 | $30,071 | 4,009 | 0.00% |
| 108 | Trela | 1 | $27,052 | 3,606 | 0.00% |
| 109 | Palisades | 1 | $21,438 | 2,858 | 0.00% |
| 110 | Magnet Pictures | 1 | $21,152 | 2,820 | 0.00% |
| 111 | Embrem Entertainment | 1 | $18,480 | 2,464 | 0.00% |
| 112 | American World Pictures | 1 | $18,215 | 2,428 | 0.00% |
| 113 | Wolfe Twenty | 1 | $17,625 | 2,350 | 0.00% |
| 114 | Alliance Atlantis | 1 | $17,172 | 2,289 | 0.00% |
| 115 | New World | 1 | $15,903 | 2,120 | 0.00% |
| 116 | NeoClassics Films | 1 | $15,000 | 2,000 | 0.00% |
| 117 | Nocturnal Features | 3 | $12,372 | 1,648 | 0.00% |
| 118 | Aliquot Films | 1 | $11,799 | 1,573 | 0.00% |
| 119 | MSK Productions | 1 | $11,581 | 1,544 | 0.00% |
| 120 | Cinema Epoch | 3 | $11,500 | 1,531 | 0.00% |
| 121 | Riverrain | 1 | $10,019 | 1,335 | 0.00% |
| 122 | Icarus Films | 1 | $9,939 | 1,325 | 0.00% |
| 123 | Mangusta Productions | 1 | $9,890 | 1,318 | 0.00% |
| 124 | Atlas Media Group | 1 | $9,166 | 1,222 | 0.00% |
| 125 | The Talking Pictures Company | 1 | $8,030 | 1,070 | 0.00% |
| 126 | Kanbar Entertainment | 1 | $6,793 | 905 | 0.00% |
| 127 | Artistic License | 1 | $6,000 | 800 | 0.00% |
| 128 | Sumbadhat Productions | 1 | $5,995 | 799 | 0.00% |
| 129 | Fair Trade Pictures | 1 | $4,183 | 557 | 0.00% |
| 130 | Cavalier Films | 1 | $3,516 | 468 | 0.00% |
| 131 | ArtMattan Films | 1 | $3,149 | 419 | 0.00% |
| 132 | Reliance Big Pictures | 1 | $1,954 | 260 | 0.00% |
| 133 | Capitol Films | 1 | $1,260 | 168 | 0.00% |
| 134 | Cinevolve Studios | 2 | $894 | 118 | 0.00% |
| 135 | New Love Films | 1 | $632 | 84 | 0.00% |
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