The Domestic Market is defined as the North American movie territory (consisting of the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Guam). The yearly amounts on our Theatrical Market pages are based on box office years.

Most popular movie genres in the United States and Canada between 1995 to 2024, by total box office revenue (in billion U.S. dollars)

Most films fall into more than one genre, and so I decided to focus on the genre which comes to mind first for a given film (for example, Independence Day is science fiction, action, and disaster, but I count it only as science fiction). The films I chose to examine are the highest grossing DOMESTIC (US and Canada) films for each year, and some ...

Note: This chart ranks genres by the amount they earned at the domestic box office during 2023. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money during 2023. For example, a movie released over Thanksgiving in 2022 will most likely earn money in 2022 and 2023. Top Grossing of 2023

While we can’t tell you real value, we can help you with the relative value by looking at how major genres perform around the world, relative to their global average. We studied the territorial breakdown of theatrical box office grosses for 3,368 films covered by The Numbers’ international box office tracking.