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Market Share for Each Distributor in 1999

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Note: This chart ranks distributors by the amount they earned at the domestic box office during 1999. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money during 1999. For example, a movie released over Thanksgiving in 1998 will most likely earn money in 1998 and 1999.

Top Grossing of 1999

RankDistributorMovies1999 GrossTicketsShare
1 Walt Disney 30 $1,252,659,460 246,586,502 16.98%
2 Warner Bros. 27 $1,041,437,778 205,007,433 14.12%
3 Universal 24 $949,108,344 186,832,352 12.86%
4 Paramount Pictures 22 $847,276,968 166,786,803 11.48%
5 20th Century Fox 23 $799,314,827 157,345,432 10.83%
6 Sony Pictures 37 $620,728,405 122,190,627 8.41%
7 Miramax 39 $329,134,947 64,790,340 4.46%
8 Dreamworks SKG 9 $329,056,722 64,774,945 4.46%
9 MGM 14 $308,112,524 60,652,069 4.18%
10 New Line 14 $303,889,853 59,820,837 4.12%
11 Artisan 16 $191,404,191 37,677,989 2.59%
12 Lionsgate 16 $63,518,926 12,503,725 0.86%
13 Sony/TriStar 2 $55,785,249 10,981,348 0.76%
14 October Films 10 $41,462,749 8,161,958 0.56%
15 IMAX Films 5 $39,410,874 7,758,044 0.53%
16 Sony Pictures Classics 19 $33,982,773 6,689,519 0.46%
17 Gramercy 5 $32,871,482 6,470,765 0.45%
18 USA Films 8 $19,924,947 3,922,232 0.27%
19 Fox Searchlight 7 $19,424,037 3,823,630 0.26%
20 Providence Entertainment 1 $12,276,200 2,416,574 0.17%
21 Fine Line 9 $7,608,048 1,497,646 0.10%
22 Discovery/IMAX 1 $7,049,211 1,387,639 0.10%
23 Stratosphere Entertainment 9 $5,723,469 1,126,667 0.08%
24 Eros Entertainment 6 $5,015,082 987,221 0.07%
25 Trimark 6 $4,913,098 967,145 0.07%
26 Primesco 2 $4,702,896 925,766 0.06%
27 nWave Pictures 1 $4,269,548 840,462 0.06%
28 Warren Miller Entertainment 1 $3,328,240 655,165 0.05%
29 New Yorker 11 $2,877,394 566,416 0.04%
30 Independent Artists 1 $2,793,776 549,956 0.04%
31 Shadow 1 $2,297,017 452,169 0.03%
32 Strand Releasing 15 $2,246,133 442,149 0.03%
33 Distributor Unknown 2 $1,606,481 316,236 0.02%
34 Goldwyn Entertainment 5 $1,413,515 278,250 0.02%
35 Video Sound 3 $1,322,737 260,381 0.02%
36 Artistic License 6 $1,193,380 234,916 0.02%
37 Rialto Pictures 2 $912,399 179,607 0.01%
38 Zeitgeist 6 $882,938 173,805 0.01%
39 Alliance Atlantis 1 $641,624 126,303 0.01%
40 Cowboy Pictures 5 $412,198 81,141 0.01%
41 Paramount Vantage 4 $311,806 61,378 0.00%
42 Good Machine Releasing 1 $235,726 46,403 0.00%
43 Kino International 5 $191,006 37,599 0.00%
44 WinStar Cinema 1 $167,773 33,026 0.00%
45 Cinecom 1 $148,443 29,221 0.00%
46 Indican Pictures 1 $128,065 25,210 0.00%
47 First Run Features 8 $121,836 23,983 0.00%
48 Phaedra Cinema 11 $115,916 22,819 0.00%
49 Manga Entertainment 1 $112,000 22,047 0.00%
50 Shooting Gallery 1 $92,569 18,222 0.00%
51 Palm Pictures 2 $87,725 17,269 0.00%
52 Polygram 1 $66,037 12,999 0.00%
53 Lot 47 Films 1 $57,291 11,278 0.00%
54 Seventh Art Releasing 1 $51,282 10,095 0.00%
55 Kino Lorber 1 $50,690 9,978 0.00%
56 Legacy Releasing 2 $38,945 7,666 0.00%
57 Roxie Releasing 1 $32,606 6,419 0.00%
58 Regent Releasing 2 $31,733 6,247 0.00%
59 Avalanche Releasing 1 $20,416 4,019 0.00%
60 First Look 1 $9,829 1,935 0.00%
61 Castle Hill Productions 2 $6,829 1,344 0.00%
62 Margin Films 1 $1,565 308 0.00%

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