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Market Share for Each Production Method in 2020

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Note: This chart ranks production methods by the amount they earned at the domestic box office during 2020. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money during 2020. For example, a movie released over Thanksgiving in 2019 will most likely earn money in 2019 and 2020.

Top Grossing of 2020

RankProduction MethodMovies2020 GrossTicketsShare
1 Live Action 368 $1,484,772,427 161,739,729 73.52%
2 Animation/Live Action 8 $356,260,196 38,808,297 17.64%
3 Digital Animation 21 $171,530,763 18,685,257 8.49%
4 Multiple Production Methods 2 $4,394,103 478,660 0.22%
5 Stop-Motion Animation 1 $2,286,000 249,019 0.11%
6 Hand Animation 1 $237,581 25,880 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.