The bar charts illustrate how much five types of films, namely Drama, Comedy, Fantasy and Romance were released and their ticket revenues were gained, in percent, between 1996 and 2000.
Overall, over the period, most films witnessed an upward trend in the figures for the release and revenue, except for romance movies. In addition, comedy earned more sales, surpassing the others, while drama was mostly released.
In terms of drama and comedy genre, in both years, the former dominated in the data of films produced, reporting a significant increase from around 26 to 35 percent in 2000, reaching the maximum percentage. Similarly, comedy had the same pattern, with a slower pace, presenting a growth from 20 to 25 percent in 2000. However, looking at the figure for the sales of tickets, watchers mostly purchased comedy tickets in both years, increasing from 20 to roughly 23, whereas there was only a slight growth from almost 16 to 17 percent in the figure for drama ones.
Regarding the two less common genres, the figure for romance films remained unchanged in 1996 and 2000, at nearly 6 percent, making it the least favoured one released in the period of 4 years. Moreover, the proportion of the the sales of romance declined moderately from 5 to almost 2 percent, while there was roughly 3 percent of the revenue of fantasy in 1996, people preferred this genre more, with ticket sales recorded at approximately 7 percent. Finally, around 12 percent of fantasy was produced in 1996, and this figure continued rising to above 15 percent, which doubled that of its ticket sales in the following four years.