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Market Share for Each Production Method in 2025

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Note: This chart ranks production methods by the amount they earned at the domestic box office during 2025. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money during 2025. For example, a movie released over Thanksgiving in 2024 will most likely earn money in 2024 and 2025.

Top Grossing of 2025

RankProduction MethodMovies2025 GrossTicketsShare
1 Live Action 248 $2,213,562,044 195,717,244 73.67%
2 Animation/Live Action 9 $523,906,643 46,322,425 17.44%
3 Digital Animation 19 $257,016,902 22,724,747 8.55%
4 Hand Animation 1 $6,845,424 605,254 0.23%
5 Multiple Production Methods 1 $3,275,177 289,582 0.11%
6 Stop-Motion Animation 1 $45,868 4,056 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).

The yearly amounts on our Theatrical Market pages are based on box office years. Each box office year starts on the first Monday of the year, so the previous year ends on the Sunday before the first Monday. For example, the "2017 box office year" started on January 2, 2017 so the "2016 box office year" ended on Sunday, January 1, 2017.