The table compares the number of independent films produced in the UK and public of Ireland by genre in 2012.
Overall, it is clear that the type of comedy, drama and documentary was the most popular, whereas the opposite was true for biopic. Moreover, It is evident that comedy’s revenue far exceeds that of other genres.
At a glance, a similar pattern was witnessed in drama and documentary films, at 35 and the proportion of all releases, which were 35 and 23.6% respectively. Furthermore, the number of horror movies was 14, which was slightly higher than thriller. Comedy films came the second place with 26 releases and accounted for 17.6 %. In contrast, biopic, action and romance are the least popular genres and reached 1,4 and 5 movies, respectively.
Comedy films were the most popular in 2012, It made money from selling tickets about 45.4% of all income. Followed by horror movies occupied 20.2%. Additionally, both documentary and drama movies were responsible for 2.3% and 8.3%. Romantic films came last with only 0.8%.
