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Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Market Share for Each Genre in 2001

RankGenreMovies2001 GrossTicketsShare
1 Adventure 24 $1,950,527,392 345,226,091 24.05%
2 Comedy 89 $1,855,656,646 328,434,805 22.88%
3 Drama 141 $1,476,031,846 261,244,567 18.20%
4 Action 28 $1,269,968,649 224,773,213 15.66%
5 Romantic Comedy 22 $520,179,759 92,067,216 6.41%
6 Thriller/Suspense 20 $483,930,351 85,651,388 5.97%
7 Horror 13 $390,865,899 69,179,805 4.82%
8 Musical 7 $69,784,570 12,351,251 .86%
9 Black Comedy 3 $47,122,178 8,340,209 .58%
10 Western 3 $21,774,921 3,853,969 .27%
11 Documentary 20 $21,051,639 3,725,952 .26%
12 Concert/Performance 3 $3,095,089 547,803 .04%
13 Genre Unknown 1 $1,004,201 177,735 .01%