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Market Share for Each Creative Type in 2018

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Note: This chart ranks creative types by the amount they earned at the domestic box office during 2018. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money during 2018. For example, a movie released over Thanksgiving in 2017 will most likely earn money in 2017 and 2018.

Top Grossing of 2018

RankCreative TypeMovies2018 GrossTicketsShare
1 Contemporary Fiction 307 $3,589,330,698 393,998,861 30.04%
2 Super Hero 11 $2,474,794,861 271,656,951 20.71%
3 Kids Fiction 28 $1,939,806,161 212,931,511 16.24%
4 Science Fiction 40 $1,927,192,236 211,546,884 16.13%
5 Dramatization 95 $1,141,594,758 125,312,232 9.56%
6 Historical Fiction 65 $418,419,190 45,929,635 3.50%
7 Fantasy 26 $339,919,098 37,312,737 2.85%
8 Factual 147 $107,515,846 11,801,901 0.90%
9 Multiple Creative Types 1 $3,508,777 385,156 0.03%

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.