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Market Share for Each Distributor in 2008
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Note: This chart ranks distributors by the amount they earned at the domestic box office during 2008. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money during 2008. For example, a movie released over Thanksgiving in 2007 will most likely earn money in 2007 and 2008.
Top Grossing of 2008
| Rank | Distributor | Movies | 2008 Gross | Tickets | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Warner Bros. | 32 | $1,786,092,312 | 248,759,375 | 18.28% |
| 2 | Paramount Pictures | 17 | $1,602,712,839 | 223,219,060 | 16.41% |
| 3 | Sony Pictures | 24 | $1,264,672,322 | 176,138,208 | 12.95% |
| 4 | Universal | 21 | $1,074,520,152 | 149,654,614 | 11.00% |
| 5 | 20th Century Fox | 24 | $1,048,311,696 | 146,004,418 | 10.73% |
| 6 | Walt Disney | 19 | $1,011,598,743 | 140,891,193 | 10.36% |
| 7 | Lionsgate | 19 | $441,532,487 | 61,494,776 | 4.52% |
| 8 | Summit Entertainment | 5 | $226,361,803 | 31,526,713 | 2.32% |
| 9 | Fox Searchlight | 9 | $217,747,257 | 30,326,916 | 2.23% |
| 10 | Focus Features | 8 | $192,372,869 | 26,792,878 | 1.97% |
| 11 | MGM | 15 | $104,012,316 | 14,486,395 | 1.06% |
| 12 | Overture Films | 8 | $103,083,661 | 14,357,056 | 1.06% |
| 13 | Paramount Vantage | 12 | $82,688,976 | 11,516,569 | 0.85% |
| 14 | Miramax | 11 | $80,794,506 | 11,252,716 | 0.83% |
| 15 | Weinstein Co. | 19 | $67,164,818 | 9,354,431 | 0.69% |
| 16 | New Line | 4 | $63,557,381 | 8,852,004 | 0.65% |
| 17 | Picturehouse | 6 | $63,392,005 | 8,828,970 | 0.65% |
| 18 | United Artists | 2 | $60,797,440 | 8,467,610 | 0.62% |
| 19 | Samuel Goldwyn Films | 7 | $41,547,999 | 5,786,630 | 0.43% |
| 20 | Sony Pictures Classics | 24 | $41,230,696 | 5,742,436 | 0.42% |
| 21 | National Geographic Entertainment | 2 | $24,307,233 | 3,385,409 | 0.25% |
| 22 | Freestyle Releasing | 6 | $23,561,613 | 3,281,561 | 0.24% |
| 23 | IMAX Films | 4 | $16,330,066 | 2,274,382 | 0.17% |
| 24 | Magnolia Pictures | 21 | $9,853,351 | 1,372,333 | 0.10% |
| 25 | Roadside Attractions | 14 | $8,337,842 | 1,161,259 | 0.09% |
| 26 | Rocky Mountain Pictures | 3 | $8,042,786 | 1,120,165 | 0.08% |
| 27 | Vivendi Entertainment | 2 | $7,088,330 | 987,233 | 0.07% |
| 28 | ThinkFilm | 16 | $6,597,056 | 918,812 | 0.07% |
| 29 | Music Box Films | 4 | $6,531,152 | 909,631 | 0.07% |
| 30 | UTV Communications | 8 | $6,399,280 | 891,263 | 0.07% |
| 31 | IFC Films | 27 | $5,760,752 | 802,333 | 0.06% |
| 32 | 3D Entertainment | 1 | $5,219,231 | 726,912 | 0.05% |
| 33 | Alliance Atlantis | 4 | $5,152,206 | 717,578 | 0.05% |
| 34 | Eros Entertainment | 10 | $5,044,922 | 702,636 | 0.05% |
| 35 | Yash Raj Films | 6 | $4,753,812 | 662,090 | 0.05% |
| 36 | Studio 18 | 3 | $3,165,186 | 440,834 | 0.03% |
| 37 | First Look | 7 | $2,921,698 | 406,922 | 0.03% |
| 38 | Zeitgeist | 6 | $1,977,992 | 275,487 | 0.02% |
| 39 | AdLab Films | 1 | $1,904,607 | 265,266 | 0.02% |
| 40 | Maya Releasing | 5 | $1,774,814 | 247,189 | 0.02% |
| 41 | Warner Independent | 2 | $1,697,498 | 236,420 | 0.02% |
| 42 | Strand Releasing | 8 | $1,513,009 | 210,725 | 0.02% |
| 43 | City Lights Pictures | 5 | $930,966 | 129,660 | 0.01% |
| 44 | Emerging Pictures | 12 | $875,524 | 121,940 | 0.01% |
| 45 | Candlelight Media | 1 | $872,427 | 121,508 | 0.01% |
| 46 | Crane Movie Company | 1 | $719,556 | 100,217 | 0.01% |
| 47 | Film Movement | 7 | $692,183 | 96,403 | 0.01% |
| 48 | First Run Features | 11 | $569,421 | 79,307 | 0.01% |
| 49 | Regent Releasing | 30 | $551,831 | 76,856 | 0.01% |
| 50 | Logo Features | 1 | $532,878 | 74,217 | 0.01% |
| 51 | Peace Arch Releasing | 3 | $496,988 | 69,219 | 0.01% |
| 52 | Yari Film Group Releasing | 3 | $492,086 | 68,535 | 0.01% |
| 53 | Senart/Scranton-Lacy | 1 | $488,393 | 68,021 | 0.00% |
| 54 | Kino International | 7 | $488,001 | 67,966 | 0.00% |
| 55 | Abramorama Films | 3 | $452,257 | 62,988 | 0.00% |
| 56 | Hammer the Movie | 1 | $442,638 | 61,649 | 0.00% |
| 57 | IFC First Take | 4 | $439,751 | 61,247 | 0.00% |
| 58 | Rialto Pictures | 6 | $432,831 | 60,282 | 0.00% |
| 59 | Oscilloscope Pictures | 5 | $326,187 | 45,430 | 0.00% |
| 60 | Indican Pictures | 6 | $317,340 | 44,198 | 0.00% |
| 61 | Cinema Guild | 5 | $315,545 | 43,947 | 0.00% |
| 62 | First Independent Pictures | 2 | $297,363 | 41,415 | 0.00% |
| 63 | nWave Pictures | 2 | $290,092 | 40,403 | 0.00% |
| 64 | Elephant Eye Films | 2 | $288,227 | 40,143 | 0.00% |
| 65 | Mitropoulos Films | 2 | $243,971 | 33,979 | 0.00% |
| 66 | Self Distributed | 4 | $240,022 | 33,429 | 0.00% |
| 67 | Anchor Bay Entertainment | 7 | $239,331 | 33,333 | 0.00% |
| 68 | Truly Indie | 4 | $234,146 | 32,611 | 0.00% |
| 69 | Vitagraph Films | 4 | $223,030 | 31,062 | 0.00% |
| 70 | Fair Trade Pictures | 1 | $208,806 | 29,082 | 0.00% |
| 71 | Excel Entertainment | 1 | $195,184 | 27,184 | 0.00% |
| 72 | Shadow | 2 | $176,831 | 24,628 | 0.00% |
| 73 | Image Entertainment | 1 | $173,066 | 24,104 | 0.00% |
| 74 | Empire Pictures | 2 | $170,864 | 23,798 | 0.00% |
| 75 | Janus Films | 2 | $169,310 | 23,580 | 0.00% |
| 76 | Balcony Releasing | 6 | $157,001 | 21,867 | 0.00% |
| 77 | Railroad Square | 1 | $156,090 | 21,740 | 0.00% |
| 78 | Shemaroo Entertainment | 3 | $151,254 | 21,065 | 0.00% |
| 79 | Lightsource | 1 | $131,672 | 18,339 | 0.00% |
| 80 | Screen Media Films | 4 | $124,500 | 17,340 | 0.00% |
| 81 | Noruz Films | 1 | $123,731 | 17,233 | 0.00% |
| 82 | New Yorker | 5 | $118,331 | 16,480 | 0.00% |
| 83 | The Bigger Picture | 5 | $113,809 | 15,851 | 0.00% |
| 84 | BerKela Films | 1 | $113,730 | 15,840 | 0.00% |
| 85 | Monterey Media | 5 | $109,493 | 15,249 | 0.00% |
| 86 | International Film Circuit | 2 | $106,257 | 14,799 | 0.00% |
| 87 | TLA Releasing | 1 | $104,828 | 14,600 | 0.00% |
| 88 | Koch Lorber Films | 3 | $102,788 | 14,315 | 0.00% |
| 89 | CAVU Releasing | 2 | $95,973 | 13,367 | 0.00% |
| 90 | Newstyle Releasing | 1 | $94,715 | 13,192 | 0.00% |
| 91 | Typecast Releasing | 1 | $89,672 | 12,489 | 0.00% |
| 92 | Spark Entertainment | 1 | $89,169 | 12,419 | 0.00% |
| 93 | Slowhand Cinema | 1 | $87,939 | 12,248 | 0.00% |
| 94 | SPEAKproductions | 1 | $86,666 | 12,070 | 0.00% |
| 95 | Five & Two Pictures | 1 | $84,093 | 11,712 | 0.00% |
| 96 | Reel Diva Consultants | 1 | $79,436 | 11,064 | 0.00% |
| 97 | The Film Desk | 3 | $78,598 | 10,946 | 0.00% |
| 98 | Cinema Libre | 5 | $73,745 | 10,271 | 0.00% |
| 99 | Film Sales Company | 2 | $72,383 | 10,081 | 0.00% |
| 100 | Embrem Entertainment | 1 | $72,349 | 10,076 | 0.00% |
| 101 | Palm Pictures | 2 | $69,410 | 9,668 | 0.00% |
| 102 | Arcangelo Entertainment | 1 | $69,221 | 9,641 | 0.00% |
| 103 | Stone Five Studios | 1 | $67,665 | 9,424 | 0.00% |
| 104 | Borotoro | 1 | $63,090 | 8,787 | 0.00% |
| 105 | Kino/Emerging | 1 | $62,671 | 8,729 | 0.00% |
| 106 | Eleven Arts | 1 | $60,910 | 8,483 | 0.00% |
| 107 | InterPositive Media | 1 | $60,332 | 8,403 | 0.00% |
| 108 | Sidetrack Films | 1 | $56,386 | 7,853 | 0.00% |
| 109 | Priority Films | 1 | $54,817 | 7,635 | 0.00% |
| 110 | Holt Hamilton Distribution | 1 | $51,748 | 7,207 | 0.00% |
| 111 | Magic Lamp | 1 | $51,408 | 7,160 | 0.00% |
| 112 | Magnet Pictures | 1 | $50,440 | 7,025 | 0.00% |
| 113 | Somerset Films | 1 | $47,935 | 6,676 | 0.00% |
| 114 | Waldo West Productions | 1 | $43,905 | 6,115 | 0.00% |
| 115 | First Run/Icarus | 4 | $43,231 | 6,021 | 0.00% |
| 116 | Menemsha Entertainment | 1 | $38,928 | 5,422 | 0.00% |
| 117 | First Independent/Dada Films | 1 | $30,591 | 4,261 | 0.00% |
| 118 | Cavalier Films | 1 | $30,552 | 4,255 | 0.00% |
| 119 | Raja Cinema | 1 | $29,269 | 4,076 | 0.00% |
| 120 | Present Pictures/Morning Knight | 1 | $28,835 | 4,016 | 0.00% |
| 121 | Milestone | 1 | $26,516 | 3,693 | 0.00% |
| 122 | Picture Park | 1 | $23,095 | 3,217 | 0.00% |
| 123 | Unison Films | 1 | $22,251 | 3,099 | 0.00% |
| 124 | New Love Films | 1 | $21,815 | 3,038 | 0.00% |
| 125 | MCR Releasing | 1 | $21,489 | 2,993 | 0.00% |
| 126 | Variance Films | 1 | $20,705 | 2,884 | 0.00% |
| 127 | Laemmle/Zeller Film | 1 | $20,440 | 2,847 | 0.00% |
| 128 | Reel Source | 1 | $19,712 | 2,745 | 0.00% |
| 129 | Arts Alliance America | 2 | $18,555 | 2,584 | 0.00% |
| 130 | Newroz Films | 1 | $15,427 | 2,149 | 0.00% |
| 131 | Lantern Lane Entertainment | 3 | $15,423 | 2,148 | 0.00% |
| 132 | Anywhere Road Entertainment | 1 | $14,251 | 1,985 | 0.00% |
| 133 | Troma Entertainment | 1 | $13,804 | 1,923 | 0.00% |
| 134 | Aron Govil Productions | 1 | $12,500 | 1,741 | 0.00% |
| 135 | Mile End Films | 1 | $12,306 | 1,714 | 0.00% |
| 136 | 41 Inc. | 1 | $12,000 | 1,671 | 0.00% |
| 137 | ArtMattan Films | 2 | $11,604 | 1,616 | 0.00% |
| 138 | Mandt Brothers | 1 | $11,340 | 1,579 | 0.00% |
| 139 | Third Rail | 2 | $10,592 | 1,476 | 0.00% |
| 140 | Thunderstruck Films | 1 | $10,510 | 1,464 | 0.00% |
| 141 | Icon Film Distribution | 1 | $10,342 | 1,440 | 0.00% |
| 142 | After Dark | 1 | $9,913 | 1,381 | 0.00% |
| 143 | Riverrain | 1 | $9,841 | 1,371 | 0.00% |
| 144 | Diversa Films | 1 | $9,344 | 1,301 | 0.00% |
| 145 | Lafayette Films | 1 | $8,443 | 1,176 | 0.00% |
| 146 | Revolver Entertainment | 1 | $7,202 | 1,003 | 0.00% |
| 147 | Vagrant Films | 1 | $7,197 | 1,002 | 0.00% |
| 148 | Liberation Entertainment | 1 | $6,627 | 923 | 0.00% |
| 149 | Atlantik Films | 1 | $6,176 | 860 | 0.00% |
| 150 | World Wide Motion Pictures | 1 | $6,000 | 836 | 0.00% |
| 151 | CJ Entertainment | 1 | $5,976 | 832 | 0.00% |
| 152 | Abkco Films | 2 | $5,695 | 793 | 0.00% |
| 153 | Romantic Troubadour Entertainment | 1 | $5,508 | 767 | 0.00% |
| 154 | Blue Water Entertainment | 1 | $4,915 | 685 | 0.00% |
| 155 | Direct Cinema Ltd | 1 | $4,740 | 660 | 0.00% |
| 156 | Eliot Lives Productions, LLC | 1 | $4,345 | 605 | 0.00% |
| 157 | A-Mark Entertainment | 1 | $3,849 | 536 | 0.00% |
| 158 | Artistic License | 1 | $3,081 | 429 | 0.00% |
| 159 | Icarus Films | 1 | $2,072 | 289 | 0.00% |
| 160 | Lavender House Films | 1 | $401 | 56 | 0.00% |
| 161 | Imaginasian | 1 | $249 | 35 | 0.00% |
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The yearly amounts on our Theatrical Market pages are based on box office years. Each box office year starts on the first Monday of the year, so the previous year ends on the Sunday before the first Monday. For example, the "2017 box office year" started on January 2, 2017 so the "2016 box office year" ended on Sunday, January 1, 2017.