Box Office

International 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.

Worldwide Domestic International

#	Title	International	Adjusted for inflation
1	Armageddon	$352.1M	$710.4M
2	Saving Private Ryan	$265.3M	$535.2M
3	Godzilla	$242.7M	$489.6M
4	A Bug's Life	$200.5M	$404.4M
5	There's Something About Mary	$193.4M	$390.1M
6	Shakespeare in Love	$189.0M	$381.3M
7	Mulan	$183.7M	$370.6M
8	Life Is Beautiful	$171.6M	$346.2M
9	The Mask of Zorro	$156.2M	$315.1M
10	Lethal Weapon 4	$155.0M	$312.7M
11	Doctor Dolittle	$150.3M	$303.2M
12	Enemy of the State	$139.3M	$281.0M
13	The Truman Show	$138.5M	$279.4M
14	You've Got Mail	$135.0M	$272.3M
15	The Man in the Iron Mask	$126.0M	$254.2M
16	City of Angels	$120.0M	$242.1M
17	The Prince of Egypt	$117.2M	$236.4M
18	The Horse Whisperer	$111.5M	$224.9M
19	Rush Hour	$103.2M	$208.2M
20	Meet Joe Black	$98.3M	$198.3M
21	Six Days Seven Nights	$90.5M	$182.6M
22	Antz	$81.0M	$163.4M
23	The Siege	$75.7M	$152.7M
24	Stepmom	$68.6M	$138.3M
25	Patch Adams	$67.3M	$135.7M
26	Lost in Space	$67.0M	$135.2M
27	Blade	$61.1M	$123.2M
28	A Perfect Murder	$60.4M	$121.8M
29	Mercury Rising	$60.2M	$121.4M
30	Elizabeth	$52.1M	$105.0M
31	Babe: Pig in the City	$50.8M	$102.5M
32	T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous	$50.6M	$102.1M
33	Snake Eyes	$48.3M	$97.4M
34	U.S. Marshals	$45.2M	$91.2M
35	The Wedding Singer	$43.1M	$86.9M
36	Star Trek: Insurrection	$42.4M	$85.5M
37	The Rugrats Movie	$40.4M	$81.5M
38	Out of Sight	$40.2M	$81.1M
39	Urban Legend	$34.5M	$69.5M
40	Ever After: A Cinderella Story	$32.3M	$65.2M
41	Waking Ned Devine	$30.5M	$61.5M
42	Great Expectations	$29.1M	$58.6M
43	The Big Lebowski	$28.7M	$57.9M
44	The Parent Trap	$25.8M	$52.0M
45	The Waterboy	$24.5M	$49.4M
46	Hope Floats	$21.4M	$43.2M
47	Bride of Chucky	$18.3M	$36.9M
48	The Object of My Affection	$17.7M	$35.7M
49	American History X	$17.2M	$34.6M
50	Psycho	$15.7M	$31.6M
51	Primary Colors	$13.1M	$26.4M
52	Dark City	$12.8M	$25.9M
53	Pleasantville	$9.2M	$18.6M
54	Mr. Nice Guy	$6.1M	$12.3M
55	Mysteries of Egypt	$4.1M	$8.3M
56	The X Files	$3.6M	$7.3M
57	The Thin Red Line	$3.5M	$7.0M
58	One True Thing	$3.4M	$6.8M
59	Bulworth	$2.7M	$5.4M
60	How Stella Got Her Groove Back	$1.6M	$3.2M
61	Deep Impact	$230K	$464K
62	The Players Club	$214K	$431K
63	Spice World	$23K	$46K
64	Jack Frost	$5K	$11K
65	I Still Know What You Did Last Summer	$2K	$3K
66	Practical Magic	$1K	$2K
67	A Night at the Roxbury	$575	$1K
68	Wild Things	$430	$867
69	Everest	$0	$0
70	A Civil Action	$0	$0
71	What Dreams May Come	$0	$0
72	Halloween H20: 20 Years Later	$0	$0
73	Small Soldiers	$0	$0
74	Mighty Joe Young	$0	$0
75	The Negotiator	$0	$0
76	Ronin	$0	$0
77	The Faculty	$0	$0
78	Sphere	$0	$0
79	Madeline	$0	$0
80	Grease 1998 Re-release	$0	$0
81	The Big Hit	$0	$0
82	Paulie	$0	$0
83	Can't Hardly Wait	$0	$0
84	Fallen	$0	$0
85	The Avengers	$0	$0
86	Rounders	$0	$0
87	Beloved	$0	$0
88	The Borrowers	$0	$0
89	Quest for Camelot	$0	$0
90	He Got Game	$0	$0
91	Vampires	$0	$0
92	Mafia !	$0	$0
93	Hard Rain	$0	$0
94	Species II	$0	$0
95	The Replacement Killers	$0	$0
96	The Odd Couple II	$0	$0
97	Simon Birch	$0	$0
98	Disturbing Behavior	$0	$0
99	Half Baked	$0	$0
100	Rushmore	$0	$0

“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.

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