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Market Share for Each Production Method in 2017

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Note: This chart ranks production methods by the amount they earned at the domestic box office during 2017. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money during 2017. For example, a movie released over Thanksgiving in 2016 will most likely earn money in 2016 and 2017.

Top Grossing of 2017

RankProduction MethodMovies2017 GrossTicketsShare
1 Live Action 678 $7,293,918,352 813,145,568 66.34%
2 Animation/Live Action 19 $2,152,957,548 240,017,555 19.58%
3 Digital Animation 29 $1,541,781,662 171,882,003 14.02%
4 Multiple Production Methods 2 $4,570,606 509,544 0.04%
5 Hand Animation 4 $385,493 42,974 0.00%
6 Stop-Motion Animation 1 $309,768 34,533 0.00%

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.