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Market Share for Each Genre in 1996

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Note: This chart ranks genres by the amount they earned at the domestic box office during 1996. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money during 1996. For example, a movie released over Thanksgiving in 1995 will most likely earn money in 1995 and 1996.

Top Grossing of 1996

RankGenreMovies1996 GrossTicketsShare
1 Drama 117 $1,275,320,216 288,533,928 22.11%
2 Action 38 $1,222,741,966 276,638,437 21.19%
3 Comedy 74 $1,134,926,467 256,770,656 19.67%
4 Adventure 26 $1,080,530,754 244,463,958 18.73%
5 Romantic Comedy 18 $405,069,364 91,644,643 7.02%
6 Thriller/Suspense 27 $320,471,762 72,504,911 5.55%
7 Horror 12 $171,074,823 38,704,704 2.97%
8 Black Comedy 11 $145,111,277 32,830,602 2.52%
9 Documentary 9 $6,803,727 1,539,299 0.12%
10 Musical 2 $2,562,599 579,772 0.04%
11 Western 2 $1,118,960 253,157 0.02%

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