Box Office
Worldwide 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 | Worldwide | Adjusted for inflation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Armageddon | $553.7M | $1.12B |
| 2 | Saving Private Ryan | $481.8M | $975.5M |
| 3 | Godzilla | $379.0M | $767.3M |
| 4 | There's Something About Mary | $369.9M | $748.8M |
| 5 | A Bug's Life | $363.3M | $735.4M |
| 6 | Mulan | $304.3M | $616.1M |
| 7 | Doctor Dolittle | $294.5M | $596.1M |
| 8 | Shakespeare in Love | $289.3M | $585.7M |
| 9 | Lethal Weapon 4 | $285.4M | $577.9M |
| 10 | The Truman Show | $264.1M | $534.7M |
| 11 | Enemy of the State | $250.8M | $507.9M |
| 12 | You've Got Mail | $250.8M | $507.8M |
| 13 | The Mask of Zorro | $250.3M | $506.7M |
| 14 | Rush Hour | $244.4M | $494.8M |
| 15 | Life Is Beautiful | $228.8M | $463.3M |
| 16 | The Prince of Egypt | $218.6M | $442.6M |
| 17 | Patch Adams | $202.3M | $409.6M |
| 18 | City of Angels | $198.7M | $402.2M |
| 19 | The Horse Whisperer | $186.9M | $378.4M |
| 20 | The Waterboy | $186.0M | $376.5M |
| 21 | The Man in the Iron Mask | $183.0M | $370.4M |
| 22 | Antz | $171.8M | $347.7M |
| 23 | Six Days Seven Nights | $164.8M | $333.7M |
| 24 | Stepmom | $159.7M | $323.3M |
| 25 | Meet Joe Black | $142.9M | $289.4M |
| 26 | The Rugrats Movie | $140.9M | $285.2M |
| 27 | Deep Impact | $140.7M | $284.8M |
| 28 | Lost in Space | $136.2M | $275.7M |
| 29 | Blade | $131.2M | $265.6M |
| 30 | A Perfect Murder | $128.0M | $259.2M |
| 31 | The Wedding Singer | $123.3M | $249.6M |
| 32 | The Siege | $116.7M | $236.2M |
| 33 | Star Trek: Insurrection | $112.6M | $227.9M |
| 34 | T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous | $104.0M | $210.5M |
| 35 | Snake Eyes | $103.9M | $210.3M |
| 36 | U.S. Marshals | $102.4M | $207.2M |
| 37 | Ever After: A Cinderella Story | $98.0M | $198.4M |
| 38 | Mercury Rising | $93.1M | $188.5M |
| 39 | The Parent Trap | $92.1M | $186.5M |
| 40 | The X Files | $87.5M | $177.2M |
| 41 | Everest | $87.2M | $176.5M |
| 42 | Elizabeth | $82.2M | $166.3M |
| 43 | Hope Floats | $81.5M | $164.9M |
| 44 | Out of Sight | $77.7M | $157.4M |
| 45 | Urban Legend | $72.5M | $146.8M |
| 46 | Babe: Pig in the City | $69.1M | $140.0M |
| 47 | A Civil Action | $56.7M | $114.8M |
| 48 | Great Expectations | $55.5M | $112.3M |
| 49 | What Dreams May Come | $55.4M | $112.1M |
| 50 | Waking Ned Devine | $55.3M | $111.9M |
| 51 | Halloween H20: 20 Years Later | $55.0M | $111.4M |
| 52 | Small Soldiers | $54.7M | $110.7M |
| 53 | Primary Colors | $52.1M | $105.5M |
| 54 | Bride of Chucky | $50.7M | $102.6M |
| 55 | Mighty Joe Young | $50.6M | $102.5M |
| 56 | Pleasantville | $49.8M | $100.8M |
| 57 | The Big Lebowski | $47.4M | $96.0M |
| 58 | The Object of My Affection | $46.9M | $95.0M |
| 59 | Practical Magic | $46.7M | $94.6M |
| 60 | Mysteries of Egypt | $44.7M | $90.5M |
| 61 | The Negotiator | $44.5M | $90.2M |
| 62 | Ronin | $41.6M | $84.3M |
| 63 | The Faculty | $40.3M | $81.6M |
| 64 | I Still Know What You Did Last Summer | $40.0M | $81.0M |
| 65 | The Thin Red Line | $39.9M | $80.7M |
| 66 | How Stella Got Her Groove Back | $39.3M | $79.5M |
| 67 | Psycho | $37.2M | $75.3M |
| 68 | Sphere | $37.0M | $74.9M |
| 69 | Jack Frost | $34.6M | $70.0M |
| 70 | A Night at the Roxbury | $30.3M | $61.4M |
| 71 | Wild Things | $30.1M | $61.0M |
| 72 | Madeline | $30.0M | $60.7M |
| 73 | Spice World | $29.4M | $59.5M |
| 74 | Bulworth | $29.2M | $59.1M |
| 75 | Grease 1998 Re-release | $28.4M | $57.5M |
| 76 | Dark City | $27.2M | $55.1M |
| 77 | The Big Hit | $27.0M | $54.7M |
| 78 | Paulie | $26.9M | $54.4M |
| 79 | One True Thing | $26.6M | $53.9M |
| 80 | Can't Hardly Wait | $25.6M | $51.8M |
| 81 | Fallen | $25.2M | $51.1M |
| 82 | American History X | $23.9M | $48.3M |
| 83 | The Avengers | $23.4M | $47.3M |
| 84 | The Players Club | $23.3M | $47.1M |
| 85 | Rounders | $22.9M | $46.4M |
| 86 | Beloved | $22.9M | $46.3M |
| 87 | The Borrowers | $22.6M | $45.8M |
| 88 | Quest for Camelot | $22.5M | $45.6M |
| 89 | He Got Game | $21.6M | $43.7M |
| 90 | Vampires | $20.3M | $41.1M |
| 91 | Mafia ! | $19.9M | $40.3M |
| 92 | Hard Rain | $19.9M | $40.2M |
| 93 | Species II | $19.2M | $38.9M |
| 94 | The Replacement Killers | $19.2M | $38.9M |
| 95 | The Odd Couple II | $18.9M | $38.3M |
| 96 | Mr. Nice Guy | $18.8M | $38.1M |
| 97 | Simon Birch | $18.3M | $37.0M |
| 98 | Disturbing Behavior | $17.5M | $35.5M |
| 99 | Half Baked | $17.5M | $35.3M |
| 100 | Rushmore | $17.1M | $34.6M |
“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.