The provided table compares the number of movies released by different genres and their percentages of all releases and business revenue from selling their tickets in the United Kingdom in 2012.
Overall, drama and documentary movies were produced most, but comedy and horror movies generated the highest income from ticket sales. Notably, the remaining types of films were released with marginal numbers, creating minimal business income.
Looking first at the most popular genres, drama and documentary had the same number of movies released, at 35 films, and both accounted for 23.6% of the total releases. However, the percentage of income of the former was almost one-fourth as high as the latter’s, at 8.3% and 2.9%, respectively. In stark contrast, the figure for comedy stood at just 26 movies, which was 9 movies lower than that of the initial genres, and consisted of 17.6% of the total, but its tickets were sold most, creating the highest income, at 45.4%. Regarding horror movies, its data for the given three criteria was approximately half of those of comedy, with respective figures of 14, 9.5%, and 20.2%. As for thriller, 13 movies of this genre were produced, accounting for 8.8%, creating just 1.3% of income, making it the least popular in this group.
Turning to the remaining types of films, the number of movies released in terms of biopic, crime, action, romance, and others was ranged from 1 to 8, in which biopic genre had the highest business revenue created from ticket sales, at 9.1%, which was 0.8% and 6.2% higher than that of drama and documentary, respectively, although it just had only 1 film produced.