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Market Share for Each Distributor in 2021
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Note: This chart ranks distributors by the amount they earned at the domestic box office during 2021. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money during 2021. For example, a movie released over Thanksgiving in 2020 will most likely earn money in 2020 and 2021.
Top Grossing of 2021
| Rank | Distributor | Movies | 2021 Gross | Tickets | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sony Pictures | 21 | $1,100,685,165 | 120,031,096 | 24.10% |
| 2 | Walt Disney | 9 | $922,488,287 | 100,598,503 | 20.19% |
| 3 | Universal | 19 | $671,702,539 | 73,249,999 | 14.70% |
| 4 | Warner Bros. | 21 | $652,980,622 | 71,208,354 | 14.29% |
| 5 | United Artists | 8 | $324,853,237 | 35,425,649 | 7.11% |
| 6 | Paramount Pictures | 7 | $278,372,768 | 30,356,899 | 6.09% |
| 7 | 20th Century Studios | 6 | $201,515,907 | 21,975,561 | 4.41% |
| 8 | Lionsgate | 9 | $102,490,937 | 11,176,764 | 2.24% |
| 9 | FUNimation | 2 | $57,467,647 | 6,266,918 | 1.26% |
| 10 | Focus Features | 17 | $56,565,026 | 6,168,488 | 1.24% |
| 11 | Searchlight Pictures | 7 | $48,181,940 | 5,254,300 | 1.05% |
| 12 | A24 | 7 | $30,452,920 | 3,320,925 | 0.67% |
| 13 | Open Road | 3 | $25,288,479 | 2,757,738 | 0.55% |
| 14 | Fathom Events | 2 | $13,998,000 | 1,526,499 | 0.31% |
| 15 | Neon | 12 | $13,781,403 | 1,502,874 | 0.30% |
| 16 | Roadside Attractions | 7 | $13,000,933 | 1,417,765 | 0.28% |
| 17 | Sony Pictures Classics | 11 | $8,930,648 | 973,892 | 0.20% |
| 18 | Bleecker Street | 9 | $5,728,187 | 624,661 | 0.13% |
| 19 | Vertical Entertainment | 16 | $4,154,507 | 453,045 | 0.09% |
| 20 | Atlas Distribution | 6 | $3,280,748 | 357,767 | 0.07% |
| 21 | HEFG Releasing | 1 | $2,893,660 | 315,557 | 0.06% |
| 22 | IFC Films | 26 | $2,642,623 | 288,171 | 0.06% |
| 23 | Gravitas Ventures | 3 | $2,607,831 | 284,386 | 0.06% |
| 24 | 101 Studios | 2 | $2,469,071 | 269,254 | 0.05% |
| 25 | Purdie Distribution | 5 | $1,871,646 | 204,102 | 0.04% |
| 26 | Saban Films | 2 | $1,823,677 | 198,874 | 0.04% |
| 27 | Faith Media Distribution | 2 | $1,361,422 | 148,464 | 0.03% |
| 28 | STX Entertainment | 2 | $1,312,024 | 143,077 | 0.03% |
| 29 | Trafalgar Releasing | 1 | $1,205,000 | 131,406 | 0.03% |
| 30 | Well Go USA | 4 | $877,095 | 95,646 | 0.02% |
| 31 | CMC Pictures | 2 | $868,810 | 94,744 | 0.02% |
| 32 | GKIDS | 5 | $837,548 | 91,332 | 0.02% |
| 33 | Greenwich | 2 | $796,960 | 86,908 | 0.02% |
| 34 | RLJ Entertainment | 9 | $782,154 | 85,290 | 0.02% |
| 35 | Magnolia Pictures | 16 | $641,567 | 69,957 | 0.01% |
| 36 | Screen Media Films | 6 | $508,544 | 55,455 | 0.01% |
| 37 | Freestyle Releasing | 1 | $480,774 | 52,429 | 0.01% |
| 38 | Self Distributed | 4 | $473,183 | 51,600 | 0.01% |
| 39 | ShortsHD | 1 | $443,050 | 48,315 | 0.01% |
| 40 | Quiver | 1 | $409,363 | 44,641 | 0.01% |
| 41 | IFC Midnight | 8 | $385,726 | 42,060 | 0.01% |
| 42 | Palm Pictures | 1 | $373,169 | 40,694 | 0.01% |
| 43 | Janus Films | 1 | $328,721 | 35,847 | 0.01% |
| 44 | Kino Lorber | 12 | $326,491 | 35,600 | 0.01% |
| 45 | Rezinate Entertainment | 1 | $241,906 | 26,380 | 0.01% |
| 46 | Music Box Films | 7 | $238,652 | 26,022 | 0.01% |
| 47 | Rialto Pictures | 2 | $232,615 | 25,366 | 0.01% |
| 48 | Picturehouse | 1 | $232,285 | 25,330 | 0.01% |
| 49 | Hamsini | 1 | $220,000 | 23,991 | 0.00% |
| 50 | Utopia | 3 | $193,791 | 21,132 | 0.00% |
| 51 | FilmRise | 1 | $171,208 | 18,670 | 0.00% |
| 52 | Oscilloscope Pictures | 4 | $160,080 | 17,456 | 0.00% |
| 53 | Good Deed Entertainment | 3 | $155,089 | 16,911 | 0.00% |
| 54 | LAMA Distribution | 1 | $148,091 | 16,149 | 0.00% |
| 55 | Indican Pictures | 21 | $133,220 | 14,521 | 0.00% |
| 56 | Aloha Releasing | 1 | $120,226 | 13,110 | 0.00% |
| 57 | Shout! Factory | 2 | $115,325 | 12,575 | 0.00% |
| 58 | Vision Films | 1 | $102,651 | 11,194 | 0.00% |
| 59 | The Avenue Entertainment | 1 | $100,671 | 10,978 | 0.00% |
| 60 | MUBI | 4 | $99,345 | 10,832 | 0.00% |
| 61 | Zeitgeist | 2 | $90,405 | 9,858 | 0.00% |
| 62 | Excel Entertainment | 1 | $87,059 | 9,493 | 0.00% |
| 63 | Magnet Releasing | 4 | $80,745 | 8,804 | 0.00% |
| 64 | 20th Century Fox | 1 | $60,000 | 6,543 | 0.00% |
| 65 | Mongrel Media | 2 | $57,299 | 6,248 | 0.00% |
| 66 | Safier Entertainment | 1 | $54,827 | 5,978 | 0.00% |
| 67 | Cohen Media Group | 2 | $54,403 | 5,932 | 0.00% |
| 68 | Blue Fox Entertainment | 1 | $52,733 | 5,750 | 0.00% |
| 69 | Dada Films | 3 | $51,308 | 5,594 | 0.00% |
| 70 | Super LTD | 1 | $37,266 | 4,063 | 0.00% |
| 71 | Entertainment Squad | 1 | $33,170 | 3,617 | 0.00% |
| 72 | Continental Distributing | 1 | $23,213 | 2,531 | 0.00% |
| 73 | Mutiny Pictures | 2 | $18,538 | 2,021 | 0.00% |
| 74 | MTV Documentary Films | 1 | $17,200 | 1,875 | 0.00% |
| 75 | Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures | 1 | $15,750 | 1,717 | 0.00% |
| 76 | Not That Kind of Movie Productions | 1 | $15,269 | 1,665 | 0.00% |
| 77 | Whole Hog Films | 1 | $13,028 | 1,420 | 0.00% |
| 78 | Indie Rights | 1 | $11,010 | 1,200 | 0.00% |
| 79 | Integrity Releasing | 1 | $7,098 | 774 | 0.00% |
| 80 | Variance Films | 1 | $4,617 | 503 | 0.00% |
| 81 | Crescendo House Films | 1 | $4,501 | 490 | 0.00% |
| 82 | Circle Collective | 1 | $3,000 | 327 | 0.00% |
| 83 | The Ashton Times | 1 | $130 | 14 | 0.00% |
Our Theatrical Market pages are based on the Domestic Theatrical Market performance only. The Domestic Market is defined as the North American movie territory (consisting of the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Guam).
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