1. Which genres are most profitable?
Can you notice any trends at the box office?
How much does you genre take on average at the box office?
How can you ensure a good return for your chosen studio?
Who tends to produce and distribute your genre of film?
2. Top-Grossing Genres 1995 to 2012
Comedy is the Occupy nearly
No.1 in the chart, quarter of the
comedy is the whole market.
most popular
genre.
Horror film is
the No.7 in the
chart.
This chart shows us the top-grossing film genres from 1995 to 2012. Horror
movies feature in the middle of the chart occupying 4.77% of the whole market
share. Although its percentage of market share is low, but the average gross of
horror is even higher than comedy. The total gross is not significant because the
volume of horror movie is small.
3. 2% market share 9% market share
There was a sharply
decrease of both
In the late 1990s , people began to ticket sales and
pay attention to horror movies, more market share from
and more studios and film companies 2007 to 2008
made horror films. So that the
percentage of horror market share
reached its first ‘hayday’. The market share and
tickets sales from 2011 to
2012 maintained steady in
Overall, the chart shows us that the ticket the rough, which occupied
4% of the whole market
sales and market share displayed a fluctuation share and have sold about
50000000 tickets.
from 1995 to 2013.
4. Those companies
which has powerful
economic strength
can keep a high
productivity with
good quality.
20th Century Fox Paramount Pictures Open Road
5. Miramax 5 R — Restricted. Children
Sony Pictures 4 Under 17 Require
Paramount Pictures 4 Accompanying Parent or
Series of horror movies Dreamworks SKG 3 Adult Guardian.
always make huge profit. Lionstage 2 PG-13 — Parents Strongly
New line 2 Cautioned. Some Material
20th Century Fox 2 May Be Inappropriate For
Warner Bros 1 Children Under 13.
6. Miramax Films is an American entertainment company known for distributing
independent and foreign films. Founded in 1979 by Bob and Harvey Weinstein and
headquartered in New York City and Cambridge, Massachusetts, Miramax was a
leading independent film motion picture distribution and production company before
it was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 1993.
Miramax operated, until 2005, the label Dimension Films, specializing in genre
films and created the Spy Kids, Scream and Scary Movies film franchises.
Scream series is a series of world famous horror movies. The series has grossed over
$600 million in worldwide box-office receipts and consists, to date, of four motion
pictures. Besides the Scream(1,2,3), Miramax also made many other horror films and
most of them were very popular . We could learn their success from the ‘Top-Grossing
Movies chart, Miramax owned 5 movies out of 25 which was the most.
7. As we can seen, the
horror movies made by
Miramax are really
successful. Horror
movies have become a
important source for
Miramax to make profit .
(Miramax owned by The Walt Disney Company)
8. (Horror)
Through comparing these two
chart we can know that making
a horror film need amount of
money behind it. The horror
films need amount of money
for scene setting and props
and so on. Generally, big
companies can make profit and
get succeed because the real
horror setting and fantastic
narrative.