The given bar chart depicts how popular each genre of film is for both men and women, and the pie chart illustrates general ticket purchases for five different categories of film—action, comedy, romantic comedy, thriller, and other—in the USA in 2010.
Overall, it is observable that action films are the most popular genre for males, and romantic comedies are the most popular genre for women. On the other hand, romantic comedies are the least favorite among men. For women, science fiction is the least popular genre. Moreover, action films accounted for the highest percentage of ticket sales in the USA in 2010.
In detail, over 40% of men enjoyed action films, allowing the number of men who preferred this genre to become the highest figure, and just 25% of women preferred this type of film, which was lower than men. However, most of the women choose the romantic comedy genre, reaching as high as 30%. Men, in contrast, accounted for the romantic comedy category the least, with its percentage standing at only 5%. Science fiction is the least attractive genre for women, with only 5% of women. There are two genres that both men and women enjoyed equally, which are comedy and western, accounting for 20% and 10%, respectively.
With regard to ticket purchases in the USA in 2010, action movies represented 49% of the total sales, nearly half of them, which means this genre dominated the sales value. The second highest purchase type was comedy, with its figure remaining at 24%. Romantic comedy and thriller genres were the third and fourth highest sales, respectively. Meanwhile, the lowest ticket sales genre is other types of film, which is not one of the four genres mentioned above, with its percentage at only 5% of the total purchases.