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Market Share for Each Genre in 2000

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Note: This chart ranks genres by the amount they earned at the domestic box office during 2000. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money during 2000. For example, a movie released over Thanksgiving in 1999 will most likely earn money in 1999 and 2000.

Top Grossing of 2000

RankGenreMovies2000 GrossTicketsShare
1 Comedy 86 $1,698,441,791 315,109,795 22.48%
2 Drama 169 $1,609,526,448 298,613,438 21.30%
3 Adventure 29 $1,300,212,239 241,226,762 17.21%
4 Action 32 $1,216,069,316 225,615,828 16.09%
5 Thriller/Suspense 36 $649,948,058 120,584,055 8.60%
6 Horror 18 $414,440,082 76,890,554 5.49%
7 Romantic Comedy 26 $281,549,017 52,235,439 3.73%
8 Documentary 47 $127,633,911 23,679,763 1.69%
9 Musical 10 $79,895,280 14,822,872 1.06%
10 Western 5 $64,721,752 12,007,746 0.86%
11 Black Comedy 9 $62,630,861 11,619,825 0.83%
12 Concert/Performance 2 $38,847,717 7,207,369 0.51%

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