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Market Share for Each Creative Type in 2009

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Note: This chart ranks creative types by the amount they earned at the domestic box office during 2009. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money during 2009. For example, a movie released over Thanksgiving in 2008 will most likely earn money in 2008 and 2009.

Top Grossing of 2009

RankCreative TypeMovies2009 GrossTicketsShare
1 Contemporary Fiction 300 $4,529,063,840 603,875,184 42.57%
2 Science Fiction 32 $1,747,247,843 232,966,380 16.42%
3 Fantasy 39 $1,538,622,387 205,149,650 14.46%
4 Kids Fiction 21 $1,132,066,934 150,942,258 10.64%
5 Dramatization 38 $605,368,074 80,715,745 5.69%
6 Historical Fiction 48 $555,628,506 74,083,799 5.22%
7 Super Hero 5 $311,157,057 41,487,607 2.92%
8 Factual 96 $207,052,398 27,606,988 1.95%
9 Multiple Creative Types 1 $644,635 85,951 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.