Thrillers are a profitable genre, with Titanic being the second highest grossing film of all time at over $2 billion. While Avatar is the highest grossing film overall, Titanic and Avatar were both directed by James Cameron. Most successful thrillers are rated PG-13 to appeal to a wide audience, though some R-rated thrillers like Se7en and Red Dragon were also very successful. Thrillers make an average of $27.6 million per film, higher than the $25.6 million average for comedies, even though there are fewer thriller films. The Walt Disney studio has distributed some of the most profitable films, including The Sixth Sense and Signs.

1. Institution research
By Michael Rumble, Aidan Bell, Paul
Scott and Jake McLeod

2. Research into Thrillers
Thrillers are a relatively profitable genre with the 2nd highest grossing film of all time
(Titanic) being a thriller making $2,185,372,302 as of 2012. and the average thriller
makes $27,621,631 at the box office.
Avatar is the highest grossing film world wide with earnings around $2,782,275,172
which is only a mere $600,000,000 more than Titanic however both where directed by
James Cameron.
Successful thrillers are all rated PG-13 as it is the widest audience with disposable
income however some thrillers such as Se7en and Red Dragon are both very successful
and a rated R.

3. Genre profits
Comedy is the most profitable genre at the box office making $44,792,158,044 from
1,751 films which means that on average a comedy film makes $25,580,901 at the box
office.
Comparing this with thrillers that are the 5th most successful genre making a combined
total of $15,495,734,985 from only 561 films, this however means that on average a
thriller makes $27,621,631 which means that thrillers are on average, more profitable
than comedy and there are less films meaning a larger market.
The most profitable studio distributer for films is Walt Disney with The Six Sense
making $293,506,292 at the box office placing it 2nd behind Titanic and Signs which
made $227,965,690 at the box office which places it 5th overall.