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Leading film markets worldwide in 2017, by gross box office revenue (in billions U.S. dollars)
Favorite movie/TV genres in the U.S. by gender 2016
Film and Movie Industry - Statistics & Facts
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$286.17B
TV & video revenue worldwide
$38.3B
Global box office revenue
$2,034.9m
Box office revenue of Warner bros.
$7.9B
Box office revenue in China
1,903
Numbe rof films produced in India
$50b
Global box office revenue is forecast to increase from about 38 billion U.S. dollars in 2016 to nearly 50 billion U.S. dollars in 2020
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The global film industry shows healthy projections for the coming years, as the global box office revenue is forecast to increase from about 38 billion U.S. dollars in 2016 to nearly 50 billion U.S. dollars in 2020. The U.S. is the third largest film market in the world in terms of tickets sold per year, only behind China and India. Just under 1.2 billion movie tickets were sold in the U.S. in 2016. There are about 5,800 cinema sites in the U.S. as of 2016. According to a recent survey, 13 percent of Americans go to the movies about once a month, seven percent go see movies in the movie theater several times a month, whereas 31 percent go less than once a year. This is a considerable share taking into account the 52 percent of American adults who prefer watching movies at home.
Film entertainment is big business in the United States. It is expected that the film entertainment business will generate 35.3 billion U.S. dollars in revenue by 2019. Among film studios, Buena Vista achieved the most in 2016 - it held the largest market share, approximately 26 percent, and generated the highest box office revenue, over three billion U.S. dollars. Warner Bros. accounted for nearly 17 percent of the total box office gross in North America, and 20th Century Fox held about 13 percent of the market share. Warner Bros, Universal and Miramax have all been awarded with the prize of “Best Picture” in the Academy Awards four times each.
In 2016, 733 movies were released in North America, with drama being the most common genre amongst movie releases in the region. Until now, the most successful movie franchise in the region was the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which generated over four billion U.S. dollars of box office revenue in North America alone. Movies like “Iron Man”, “Marvel’s The Avengers”, “Spider-Man”, “The Incredible Hulk” are a few examples of franchise films. “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is the highest grossing 3D movie in North America, with lifetime gross of around 937 million U.S. dollars.
Jennifer Lawrence, star of “The Hunger Games” franchise, “Silver Linings Playbook” and many other movies, is the best-paid actress in the world. Other high-paid actresses include Melissa McCarthy, Scarlett Johansson, Fan Bingbing and Charlize Theron. In regards to actors, Mark Wahlberg leads the list of best-paid actors, followed by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Vin Diesel, and Adam Sandler. With a total of four awards, Katharine Hepburn set the record for number of Oscars won by an actor
The statistic provides data on leading film markets worldwide in 2017, ranked by their gross box office revenue. China was the second largest market in 2017, with a box office revenue of 8.42 billion U.S. dollars that year. The biggest film market was in the United States, which had a box office revenue of 10.24 billion in 2017. The highest grossing movie in 2017 in North America was 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi', which generated over 618 million U.S. dollars at the box office. On a global scale, box office revenue is expected to continue growing and reach 49.3 billion U.S. dollars by the end of 2020
The statistic shows information about favorite movie genres among adults in the United States in 2016, sorted by gender. According to the source, 62 percent of female respondents stated that action movies were their favorite genre. The favorite movie genre among males was comedy, whilst females preferred the drama genre. The movie genre that has generated the most revenue at the North American box office since 1995 is the adventure genre, which has brought in 45.67 billion U.S. dollars of revenue. Second on the list is the comedy genre, which has collective box office takings of 42.66 billion U.S. dollars