Looking at the image above, it shows the success of each genre throughout the UK, showing the number of releases, percentage of all releases, box office and percentage of total box office. Box office genre is usually determined by a small number of high grossing releases. The highest grossing was animated film Despicable Me 2 which was the top earning genre with a combined gross of 247 million. This is perhaps because Animated films are available for all ages and all social class, making the films popular, producing more money.
Focusing on the genres Thriller and Horror we can see that they are both popular genres especially when comparing them to genres like War and Documentary. Even though these genres can be seen as similar, Thriller released 27 more films then Horror did in 2013. Additionally even though Thriller released 64 films compared to 37 Horror movies, Horror still managed to produce 28.4 million more then the Thriller genre. Comparing the figures given the Horror genre is more profitable when comparing it with Thrillers.
To conclude the number of releases that a genre makes does not determine how much profit the studios are going to make. Thrillers made 64 films with a box office of 29.1 million where as Horror made 57.5 million when only making 37 films.
