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Market Share for Each Production Method in 2004

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Note: This chart ranks production methods by the amount they earned at the domestic box office during 2004. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money during 2004. For example, a movie released over Thanksgiving in 2003 will most likely earn money in 2003 and 2004.

Top Grossing of 2004

RankProduction MethodMovies2004 GrossTicketsShare
1 Live Action 596 $7,511,155,771 1,209,525,600 80.90%
2 Digital Animation 6 $1,006,142,094 162,019,658 10.84%
3 Animation/Live Action 6 $594,074,251 95,664,129 6.40%
4 Hand Animation 10 $170,278,922 27,420,111 1.83%

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