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Market Share for Each Creative Type in 1998

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Note: This chart ranks creative types by the amount they earned at the domestic box office during 1998. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money during 1998. For example, a movie released over Thanksgiving in 1997 will most likely earn money in 1997 and 1998.

Top Grossing of 1998

RankCreative TypeMovies1998 GrossTicketsShare
1 Contemporary Fiction 207 $3,453,093,250 736,267,113 50.67%
2 Historical Fiction 44 $1,171,060,414 249,693,032 17.18%
3 Science Fiction 22 $834,315,178 177,892,350 12.24%
4 Kids Fiction 15 $664,309,402 141,643,787 9.75%
5 Dramatization 22 $333,115,436 71,026,734 4.89%
6 Fantasy 13 $191,858,352 40,907,960 2.82%
7 Factual 15 $86,230,517 18,386,030 1.27%
8 Super Hero 1 $70,141,876 14,955,623 1.03%

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).

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