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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Market Share for Each Genre in 2001

RankGenreMovies2001 GrossTicketsShare
1 Adventure 24 $1,950,517,003 344,614,310 24.04%
2 Comedy 90 $1,857,618,094 328,201,078 22.89%
3 Drama 141 $1,478,391,113 261,199,839 18.22%
4 Action 28 $1,269,922,233 224,367,885 15.65%
5 Romantic Comedy 22 $520,172,779 91,903,317 6.41%
6 Thriller/Suspense 20 $483,912,515 85,496,911 5.96%
7 Horror 14 $391,052,039 69,090,467 4.82%
8 Musical 7 $69,746,339 12,322,674 .86%
9 Black Comedy 3 $47,122,178 8,325,473 .58%
10 Western 4 $20,993,355 3,709,073 .26%
11 Documentary 19 $20,841,339 3,682,216 .26%
12 Concert/Performance 3 $3,089,728 545,889 .04%
13 Genre Unknown 1 $1,004,201 177,421 .01%