Market Charts > 1998 > Distributors
Market Share for Each Distributor in 1998
| ← 1997 | Summary for all Years | 1999 → |
Note: This chart ranks distributors by the amount they earned at the domestic box office during 1998. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money during 1998. For example, a movie released over Thanksgiving in 1997 will most likely earn money in 1997 and 1998.
Top Grossing of 1998
| Rank | Distributor | Movies | 1998 Gross | Tickets | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walt Disney | 29 | $1,102,692,233 | 235,115,612 | 16.27% |
| 2 | Paramount Pictures | 19 | $1,082,456,932 | 230,801,051 | 15.97% |
| 3 | 20th Century Fox | 19 | $735,440,932 | 156,810,433 | 10.85% |
| 4 | Warner Bros. | 31 | $731,269,333 | 155,920,967 | 10.79% |
| 5 | Sony Pictures | 37 | $699,084,129 | 149,058,450 | 10.31% |
| 6 | New Line | 17 | $518,495,289 | 110,553,367 | 7.65% |
| 7 | Dreamworks SKG | 7 | $470,789,813 | 100,381,624 | 6.95% |
| 8 | Miramax | 40 | $404,094,257 | 86,160,819 | 5.96% |
| 9 | Universal | 19 | $382,425,426 | 81,540,604 | 5.64% |
| 10 | MGM | 16 | $207,857,577 | 44,319,312 | 3.07% |
| 11 | Polygram | 6 | $100,381,043 | 21,403,207 | 1.48% |
| 12 | MacGillivray Freeman Films | 1 | $55,742,120 | 11,885,313 | 0.82% |
| 13 | Sony Pictures Classics | 20 | $44,932,058 | 9,580,398 | 0.66% |
| 14 | Sony/TriStar | 3 | $44,089,516 | 9,400,750 | 0.65% |
| 15 | Gramercy | 11 | $43,110,344 | 9,191,972 | 0.64% |
| 16 | October Films | 11 | $28,731,900 | 6,126,201 | 0.42% |
| 17 | Fox Searchlight | 8 | $23,499,915 | 5,010,643 | 0.35% |
| 18 | Artisan | 8 | $22,314,637 | 4,757,920 | 0.33% |
| 19 | Fine Line | 8 | $14,539,421 | 3,100,090 | 0.21% |
| 20 | Trimark | 9 | $14,014,732 | 2,988,216 | 0.21% |
| 21 | Lionsgate | 15 | $8,294,538 | 1,768,557 | 0.12% |
| 22 | Live Film & Mediaworks | 1 | $6,724,217 | 1,433,735 | 0.10% |
| 23 | Discovery/IMAX | 1 | $4,005,624 | 854,078 | 0.06% |
| 24 | First Look | 2 | $3,637,502 | 775,587 | 0.05% |
| 25 | Live Entertainment | 2 | $3,385,432 | 721,840 | 0.05% |
| 26 | Distributor Unknown | 1 | $2,750,686 | 586,500 | 0.04% |
| 27 | Warren Miller Entertainment | 1 | $2,750,064 | 586,368 | 0.04% |
| 28 | IMAX Films | 2 | $2,581,438 | 550,413 | 0.04% |
| 29 | Stratosphere Entertainment | 4 | $2,548,224 | 543,331 | 0.04% |
| 30 | Good Machine Releasing | 1 | $2,510,727 | 535,336 | 0.04% |
| 31 | Strand Releasing | 9 | $1,433,021 | 305,549 | 0.02% |
| 32 | Legacy Releasing | 7 | $1,320,828 | 281,626 | 0.02% |
| 33 | Alliance Atlantis | 2 | $1,065,180 | 227,117 | 0.02% |
| 34 | New Yorker | 6 | $919,946 | 196,150 | 0.01% |
| 35 | Rainbow Releasing | 1 | $821,997 | 175,266 | 0.01% |
| 36 | Rialto Pictures | 1 | $752,045 | 160,351 | 0.01% |
| 37 | Goldwyn Entertainment | 2 | $574,877 | 122,575 | 0.01% |
| 38 | Artistic License | 4 | $461,092 | 98,313 | 0.01% |
| 39 | Roxie Releasing | 1 | $441,808 | 94,202 | 0.01% |
| 40 | Orion Pictures | 2 | $422,709 | 90,130 | 0.01% |
| 41 | Zeitgeist | 6 | $358,641 | 76,468 | 0.01% |
| 42 | First Run Features | 4 | $348,168 | 74,236 | 0.01% |
| 43 | Leisure Time Features | 1 | $316,872 | 67,563 | 0.00% |
| 44 | RS Entertainment | 1 | $189,635 | 40,434 | 0.00% |
| 45 | Palm Pictures | 1 | $116,592 | 24,860 | 0.00% |
| 46 | Kino International | 3 | $87,464 | 18,649 | 0.00% |
| 47 | Atlantic | 1 | $84,744 | 18,069 | 0.00% |
| 48 | Phaedra Cinema | 2 | $82,342 | 17,557 | 0.00% |
| 49 | Empire Pictures | 1 | $56,158 | 11,974 | 0.00% |
| 50 | Northern Arts Entertainment | 3 | $29,265 | 6,240 | 0.00% |
| 51 | Castle Hill Productions | 5 | $28,590 | 6,094 | 0.00% |
| 52 | Attitude Films | 1 | $16,556 | 3,530 | 0.00% |
| 53 | Cowboy Pictures | 1 | $15,631 | 3,333 | 0.00% |
| 54 | Arrow Releasing | 1 | $9,980 | 2,128 | 0.00% |
| 55 | WinStar Cinema | 1 | $5,951 | 1,268 | 0.00% |
| 56 | Seventh Art Releasing | 1 | $5,853 | 1,248 | 0.00% |
| 57 | Avalanche Releasing | 1 | $5,000 | 1,066 | 0.00% |
| 58 | Margin Films | 1 | $2,194 | 468 | 0.00% |
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