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Market Share for Each Genre in 2011

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Note: This chart ranks genres by the amount they earned at the domestic box office during 2011. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money during 2011. For example, a movie released over Thanksgiving in 2010 will most likely earn money in 2010 and 2011.

Top Grossing of 2011

RankGenreMovies2011 GrossTicketsShare
1 Adventure 46 $2,524,239,784 318,315,221 24.81%
2 Action 50 $2,165,588,118 273,088,016 21.29%
3 Comedy 98 $1,527,251,476 192,591,575 15.01%
4 Drama 242 $1,444,761,685 182,189,260 14.20%
5 Thriller/Suspense 60 $942,775,708 118,887,205 9.27%
6 Romantic Comedy 34 $610,827,001 77,027,351 6.00%
7 Horror 28 $404,504,689 51,009,410 3.98%
8 Western 4 $208,333,929 26,271,617 2.05%
9 Black Comedy 14 $100,058,537 12,617,715 0.98%
10 Concert/Performance 6 $95,445,317 12,035,978 0.94%
11 Documentary 136 $82,535,872 10,407,985 0.81%
12 Musical 4 $62,691,273 7,905,582 0.62%
13 Multiple Genres 4 $1,510,823 190,518 0.01%

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.