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Market Share for Each Creative Type in 2008

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Note: This chart ranks creative types by the amount they earned at the domestic box office during 2008. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money during 2008. For example, a movie released over Thanksgiving in 2007 will most likely earn money in 2007 and 2008.

Top Grossing of 2008

RankCreative TypeMovies2008 GrossTicketsShare
1 Contemporary Fiction 397 $4,207,869,493 586,054,099 43.15%
2 Super Hero 8 $1,339,822,118 186,604,751 13.74%
3 Fantasy 43 $1,025,981,983 142,894,412 10.52%
4 Science Fiction 25 $1,005,639,165 140,061,160 10.31%
5 Historical Fiction 61 $939,857,585 130,899,361 9.64%
6 Kids Fiction 16 $690,445,178 96,162,280 7.08%
7 Dramatization 47 $376,806,875 52,480,048 3.86%
8 Factual 138 $163,139,187 22,721,263 1.67%
9 Multiple Creative Types 1 $508,695 70,848 0.01%

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).

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