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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Market Share for Each CreativeType in 2008

RankCreativeTypeMovies2008 GrossTicketsShare
1 Contemporary Fiction 390 $4,350,047,588 605,856,213 44.16%
2 Super Hero 8 $1,339,822,118 186,604,752 13.60%
3 Fantasy 46 $1,082,147,386 150,716,904 10.99%
4 Kids Fiction 16 $901,634,229 125,575,799 9.15%
5 Historical Fiction 59 $852,607,371 118,747,546 8.66%
6 Science Fiction 22 $781,285,719 108,814,167 7.93%
7 Dramatization 46 $384,000,756 53,481,998 3.90%
8 Factual 137 $158,284,158 22,045,149 1.61%
9 Multiple Creative Types 1 $508,695 70,849 .01%