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Market Share for Each Creative Type in 2020

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Note: This chart ranks creative types by the amount they earned at the domestic box office during 2020. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money during 2020. For example, a movie released over Thanksgiving in 2019 will most likely earn money in 2019 and 2020.

Top Grossing of 2020

RankCreative TypeMovies2020 GrossTicketsShare
1 Contemporary Fiction 196 $606,136,983 66,027,895 30.01%
2 Science Fiction 29 $413,372,858 45,029,707 20.47%
3 Kids Fiction 24 $394,357,503 42,958,322 19.53%
4 Historical Fiction 38 $346,578,352 37,753,614 17.16%
5 Super Hero 6 $155,140,954 16,899,882 7.68%
6 Dramatization 42 $81,027,843 8,826,541 4.01%
7 Fantasy 8 $15,462,578 1,684,372 0.77%
8 Multiple Creative Types 4 $3,792,119 413,084 0.19%
9 Factual 53 $3,586,392 390,649 0.18%

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).

The yearly amounts on our Theatrical Market pages are based on box office years. Each box office year starts on the first Monday of the year, so the previous year ends on the Sunday before the first Monday. For example, the "2017 box office year" started on January 2, 2017 so the "2016 box office year" ended on Sunday, January 1, 2017.