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Sunday, May 11, 2008

Market Share for Each Genre in 1998

RankGenreMovies1998 GrossTicketsShare
1 Drama 116 $2,012,924,037 429,194,888 29.92%
2 Adventure 20 $1,215,844,194 259,241,834 18.07%
3 Comedy 79 $1,167,792,864 248,996,345 17.36%
4 Action 30 $997,033,408 212,587,079 14.82%
5 Romantic Comedy 14 $501,750,637 106,983,078 7.46%
6 Thriller/Suspense 18 $340,124,020 72,521,113 5.06%
7 Horror 16 $318,151,658 67,836,174 4.73%
8 Documentary 11 $75,196,164 16,033,297 1.12%
9 Musical 7 $52,582,462 11,211,612 .78%
10 Black Comedy 6 $46,087,958 9,826,856 .69%