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Market Share for Each Production Method in 2012

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Note: This chart ranks production methods by the amount they earned at the domestic box office during 2012. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money during 2012. For example, a movie released over Thanksgiving in 2011 will most likely earn money in 2011 and 2012.

Top Grossing of 2012

RankProduction MethodMovies2012 GrossTicketsShare
1 Live Action 692 $7,984,171,407 1,003,036,260 72.53%
2 Animation/Live Action 10 $1,472,448,278 184,980,936 13.38%
3 Digital Animation 16 $1,353,529,171 170,041,344 12.30%
4 Stop-Motion Animation 4 $122,052,828 15,333,268 1.11%
5 Hand Animation 8 $67,488,937 8,478,506 0.61%
6 Multiple Production Methods 1 $1,702,415 213,871 0.02%

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