The bar charts illustrate the proportion of film production and the sales of cinema tickets in different categories – drama, comedy, fantasy, and fantasy from 1996 to 2000. Overall, each category of films experienced different trends. While the percentage of drama production was the highest, the percentage of ticket sales was the highest in the comedy. However, the proportion of the production as well as the ticket sales of romantic films was the lowest.
Regarding to the percentage of the film production, the proportion of films in the drama genre saw a dramatic growth from approximately 26% initially to 35% in 2000. Meanwhile, there was an increase in the proportion of the production of comedy films from one-fifth (1996) to a quarter (2000). The proportion of fantasy films had almost similar trends, starting from 11% initially and reaching to 16% in 2000. The proportion of romantic films (6%) was similar in each year.
The percentage of ticket sales in cinema for comedy films was the one that was the highest, reaching to 24% in 2000 before accounting for 20% in 1996. The percentage of ticket sales for drama remained almost unchanged at 16%. Tickets for fantasy films observed a growth from 3% to 6%; however, tickets for romantic films were the only one that saw a decrease, from 5% in 1996 to 2% in 2000.