The table compares the proportions of commercial sales of cinema tickets and movies released across four distinct genres during 1996 and 2000.
Overall, it is clear that Drama made up the largest percentage of released films, while Comedy accounted for the highest share of ticket sales in both years. In addition, the figures for movies released and ticket sales generally increased for most genres with the exception of Romance.
In terms of film releases, Drama was the most popular genre to release, starting at 26% in 1996 and reaching 35% in 2000. Similarly, Comedy releases increased from 20% to 25%. Fantasy films also experienced a slight growth from 11% to 15%. In contrast, the share of Romance movies remained stable at 5% throughout the period.
As for ticket sales, Comedy performed the best of 20% of ticket sales in 1996 and increased slightly to 22% in 2000. Drama ticket sales appeared to be the second best selling tickets despite a slight increase from 16% to 17%. Notably, the ticket sales of Fantasy showed the biggest growth, rising from 3% to 7%. By contrast, Romance was the only category where ticket sales declined from 5% in 1996 to just 2% in 2000, making it the lowest one.