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Market Share for Each Creative Type in 2026

← 2025 Summary for all Years

Note: This chart ranks creative types by the amount they earned at the domestic box office during 2026. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money during 2026. For example, a movie released over Thanksgiving in 2025 will most likely earn money in 2025 and 2026.

Top Grossing of 2026

RankCreative TypeMovies2026 GrossTicketsShare
1 Contemporary Fiction 68 $410,663,554 36,309,778 36.10%
2 Science Fiction 20 $254,574,853 22,508,828 22.38%
3 Kids Fiction 7 $189,956,519 16,795,448 16.70%
4 Dramatization 18 $126,304,435 11,167,498 11.10%
5 Historical Fiction 16 $101,050,260 8,934,595 8.88%
6 Factual 18 $32,858,462 2,905,258 2.89%
7 Fantasy 6 $20,791,202 1,838,303 1.83%
8 Multiple Creative Types 1 $1,445,056 127,768 0.13%

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.