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Market Share for Each Creative Type in 1997

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Note: This chart ranks creative types by the amount they earned at the domestic box office during 1997. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money during 1997. For example, a movie released over Thanksgiving in 1996 will most likely earn money in 1996 and 1997.

Top Grossing of 1997

RankCreative TypeMovies1997 GrossTicketsShare
1 Contemporary Fiction 209 $3,680,287,629 801,805,484 59.50%
2 Science Fiction 19 $1,133,811,126 247,017,665 18.33%
3 Historical Fiction 37 $446,813,174 97,344,901 7.22%
4 Dramatization 23 $371,544,037 80,946,404 6.01%
5 Kids Fiction 16 $337,014,794 73,423,695 5.45%
6 Super Hero 2 $109,011,624 23,749,808 1.76%
7 Fantasy 10 $83,326,296 18,153,873 1.35%
8 Factual 10 $10,381,026 2,261,657 0.17%

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