The given bar chart illustrates the profit rate of seven different most favoured types of films in US cinemas from 1995 to 2005.
Overall, these film genres followed various trajectories with comedy being the largest contributor in most surveyed years. Meanwhile, there were only 3 types of films whose profit rate increased across the timeframe, namely Comedy, Adventure and Animation.
Regarding categories having a more significant contribution to the total earnings of the US industry, despite claiming the second spot at 20% initially, the proportion of profits made from Comedy soon exceeded that of Drama and took the lead when it increased to 25%. This figure then hit its peak at roughly 27% in 2005. In contrast, starting at around 28%, the percentage of Drama’s profit followed a downward pattern by declining around 7% every 5 years. This trend was mirrored by Action movies, albeit to a lower extent. From above 15%, its profit share descended gradually to just 13% in 2005. Conversely, although the profit percentage of Adventurous films declined slightly by 4% from 14% in 1995, it soon recovered its growth and surged to around 25%, securing its position as the second most contributed film genre in 2005.
As for film genres generating less profit, given negligible increase in the first two years from 7% to 9%, the share of thriller almost halved in 2005. Similarly, the increase of musicals’ profit was short-lived when it experienced a three-fold decrease from its peak at around 9% in 2000, becoming the genre with the lowest profit rate. Following a completely different pattern, there was only 4% earnings of the film industry generated by amination, which increased gradually and nearly doubled to 8% in 2005.