Box Office
Domestic box office · 1998
The top-grossing releases of the year. Switch between worldwide, domestic, and international — every figure shown both as reported and adjusted for inflation, so films from any era are directly comparable.
| # | Title | Domestic | Adjusted for inflation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saving Private Ryan | $216.5M | $438.4M |
| 2 | Armageddon | $201.6M | $408.1M |
| 3 | There's Something About Mary | $176.5M | $357.3M |
| 4 | A Bug's Life | $162.8M | $329.6M |
| 5 | The Waterboy | $161.5M | $326.9M |
| 6 | Doctor Dolittle | $144.2M | $291.9M |
| 7 | Rush Hour | $141.2M | $285.8M |
| 8 | Deep Impact | $140.5M | $284.4M |
| 9 | Godzilla | $136.3M | $276.0M |
| 10 | Patch Adams | $135.0M | $273.4M |
| 11 | Lethal Weapon 4 | $130.4M | $264.1M |
| 12 | The Truman Show | $125.6M | $254.3M |
| 13 | Mulan | $120.6M | $244.2M |
| 14 | You've Got Mail | $115.8M | $234.5M |
| 15 | Enemy of the State | $111.5M | $225.8M |
| 16 | The Prince of Egypt | $101.4M | $205.3M |
| 17 | The Rugrats Movie | $100.5M | $203.5M |
| 18 | Shakespeare in Love | $100.3M | $203.1M |
| 19 | The Mask of Zorro | $94.1M | $190.5M |
| 20 | Stepmom | $91.1M | $184.5M |
| 21 | Antz | $90.8M | $183.7M |
| 22 | Everest | $87.2M | $176.5M |
| 23 | The X Files | $83.9M | $169.9M |
| 24 | The Wedding Singer | $80.2M | $162.5M |
| 25 | City of Angels | $78.7M | $159.3M |
| 26 | The Horse Whisperer | $75.4M | $152.6M |
| 27 | Six Days Seven Nights | $74.3M | $150.5M |
| 28 | Star Trek: Insurrection | $70.2M | $142.1M |
| 29 | Blade | $70.1M | $141.9M |
| 30 | Lost in Space | $69.1M | $139.9M |
| 31 | A Perfect Murder | $67.6M | $136.9M |
| 32 | The Parent Trap | $66.3M | $134.2M |
| 33 | Ever After: A Cinderella Story | $65.7M | $133.0M |
| 34 | Hope Floats | $60.1M | $121.6M |
| 35 | Life Is Beautiful | $57.2M | $115.9M |
| 36 | U.S. Marshals | $57.2M | $115.7M |
| 37 | The Man in the Iron Mask | $57.0M | $115.3M |
| 38 | A Civil Action | $56.7M | $114.8M |
| 39 | Snake Eyes | $55.6M | $112.5M |
| 40 | What Dreams May Come | $55.4M | $112.1M |
| 41 | Halloween H20: 20 Years Later | $55.0M | $111.4M |
| 42 | Small Soldiers | $54.7M | $110.7M |
| 43 | T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous | $53.4M | $108.0M |
| 44 | Mighty Joe Young | $50.6M | $102.5M |
| 45 | Practical Magic | $46.7M | $94.6M |
| 46 | Meet Joe Black | $44.6M | $90.3M |
| 47 | The Negotiator | $44.5M | $90.2M |
| 48 | Ronin | $41.6M | $84.3M |
| 49 | The Siege | $41.0M | $83.0M |
| 50 | Mysteries of Egypt | $40.6M | $82.2M |
| 51 | Pleasantville | $40.6M | $82.2M |
| 52 | The Faculty | $40.3M | $81.6M |
| 53 | I Still Know What You Did Last Summer | $40.0M | $81.0M |
| 54 | Primary Colors | $39.0M | $79.0M |
| 55 | Urban Legend | $38.1M | $77.1M |
| 56 | How Stella Got Her Groove Back | $37.7M | $76.3M |
| 57 | Out of Sight | $37.6M | $76.0M |
| 58 | Sphere | $37.0M | $74.9M |
| 59 | The Thin Red Line | $36.4M | $73.7M |
| 60 | Jack Frost | $34.6M | $70.0M |
| 61 | Mercury Rising | $32.9M | $66.7M |
| 62 | Bride of Chucky | $32.4M | $65.6M |
| 63 | A Night at the Roxbury | $30.3M | $61.4M |
| 64 | Wild Things | $30.1M | $61.0M |
| 65 | Elizabeth | $30.1M | $60.9M |
| 66 | Madeline | $30.0M | $60.7M |
| 67 | Spice World | $29.3M | $59.4M |
| 68 | The Object of My Affection | $29.2M | $59.1M |
| 69 | Grease 1998 Re-release | $28.4M | $57.5M |
| 70 | The Big Hit | $27.0M | $54.7M |
| 71 | Paulie | $26.9M | $54.4M |
| 72 | Bulworth | $26.5M | $53.7M |
| 73 | Great Expectations | $26.4M | $53.5M |
| 74 | Can't Hardly Wait | $25.6M | $51.8M |
| 75 | Fallen | $25.2M | $51.1M |
| 76 | Waking Ned Devine | $24.8M | $50.2M |
| 77 | The Avengers | $23.4M | $47.3M |
| 78 | One True Thing | $23.2M | $47.1M |
| 79 | The Players Club | $23.0M | $46.7M |
| 80 | Rounders | $22.9M | $46.4M |
| 81 | Beloved | $22.9M | $46.3M |
| 82 | The Borrowers | $22.6M | $45.8M |
| 83 | Quest for Camelot | $22.5M | $45.6M |
| 84 | He Got Game | $21.6M | $43.7M |
| 85 | Psycho | $21.5M | $43.5M |
| 86 | Vampires | $20.3M | $41.1M |
| 87 | Mafia ! | $19.9M | $40.3M |
| 88 | Hard Rain | $19.9M | $40.2M |
| 89 | Species II | $19.2M | $38.9M |
| 90 | The Replacement Killers | $19.2M | $38.9M |
| 91 | The Odd Couple II | $18.9M | $38.3M |
| 92 | The Big Lebowski | $18.7M | $37.9M |
| 93 | Babe: Pig in the City | $18.3M | $37.1M |
| 94 | Simon Birch | $18.3M | $37.0M |
| 95 | Disturbing Behavior | $17.5M | $35.5M |
| 96 | Half Baked | $17.5M | $35.3M |
| 97 | Rushmore | $17.1M | $34.6M |
| 98 | Dark City | $14.4M | $29.1M |
| 99 | Mr. Nice Guy | $12.7M | $25.7M |
| 100 | American History X | $6.7M | $13.6M |
“Adjusted for inflation” restates each gross in today’s dollars using US CPI-U annual averages. Domestic and international views are re-ranked from the year’s top releases; some early years report domestic-only figures.