Which genre of movies produced the greatest box office receipts during 2008?

GOOd REpost i think this will be better

I just wish we could see what genre the upcoming releases were going to fall into. I love the question.

@ destry,

If you have a particular film in mind you can go to the website I mentioned under coming soon & it shows which genre it will counted under.

Thank you, seems like comedy is a shoe in with get smart and wall-e both falling under that category, and the other major movies being divided among other categories.

Top three as of right now: Adventure - $1,081,834,499 , Comedy - $999,799,984 and Action - $598,965,485

As you can see Adventure currently leads by over 90kk and Action is way behind. The biggest upcoming releases (IMO) fall under the following categories:

Adventure:
The Incredible Hulk
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
The sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (This is a 100% CGI remake, so in other words practically a re-release. ZING!)
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Comedy:
Wall-E
Get Smart
The Love Guru
Madagascar 2: The Escape to Africa

Action:
Hellboy 2
The Dark Knight
The X-Files: I want to believe
Max Payne
Transporter 3
Punisher Warzone
The Day the Earth Stood Still

So as you can see Action is probably the winner, or close to it, from here out and comedy is shockingly light on late year releases. Adventure as a lead, stole the Hulk from Action, and gets a new HP movie and a Star Wars re-release. So my moneys on Adventure big time, since comedy seems to have few releases and action is way behind.

Oh BTW, I left off the list some big release that didn't fall under those three categories becuase one or two movies will obviously not catch up the genre to Adventure and Comedy. Notable movies left off are such titles as The Happening (Drama Suspense) and Hancock (Drama). So if you think another movie will make an impact check it out ourself ;)

That's a very helpful analysis. I did a haphazard job of looking through the upcoming movies, but that's MUCH better!!

I don't really understand why they classified Hancock as a Drama though -- seems like it should be Action. Oh well. My money's on adventure. Go Harry, go!

@ironman - great job. I cashed out at a loss after seeing Harry on the list, I forgot all about Harry, we know that is huge opening.

@jenni - I can't figure out Hancock either, guess they are going to get more into the drama of the problems of being a super hero. It looked at first glance like an action movie.

yeah i agree I pictured Hancock as Comedy with action, never occurred to me as a drama.

Man if Hancock is a Drama, then NOOOO WAY it'll open with $76 mil or more! What a weird genre for that pic?!?!

GREATTTTTTT QUESTION Valor!!!!!!! I am soooo jealous I never thought of it, haha, YOU ROCK MAN!!!

yeah i think Hancock is maybe an action drama with some elements of comic relief (?), just goes to show how important it is too have a good advertising campaign, we all know who the star is and sort of what its about but we have no idea what genre it's even trying to be... If it's really a drama its going to make less than it should becuase every joke in the movie is already run in the trailor and people will be disappointed when they came to laugh and didn't.

I love the question, and am invested already, but after re-checking can I get a little more clarification?
Does " receipts" refer to Gross or Tickets?
The top 2 in both categories are very close right now, I just want to be sure of which one I should be tracking.
Thanks.

The only reason I ask is because most movie questions have pertained to the gross, but by mentioning receipts as in question I think of tickets.

@ sdchargers,

Certainly, not a problem. My intent is the rankings as reflected in the websidte, theses dollar amounts @ http://www.the-numbers.com/market/Genres2008.php

why is adventure so low again? someone must really like comedy's chances against harry potter a lot more than i do.

well click was a drama i think hancock has a lot of soul searching in it

yeah but click was a major disappointment becuase every thought it was going to be a comedy. The commercial was like the one for Hancock, where the comic relief moments are shown as being representative of the movie when they aren't.

The sight list the Bee movie in comedy that was relised Novemver 2007 how is that 2008 movies?

@ ryan37, I had the same question, which is one of the reasons I went the through to the trouble of listing just the 2008 releases in the first vestige of this market, but then by consensus it was decided to go with THIS website as a settlement vehicle. If you go to the website you'll see that they are including all movies that are being SHOWN between 1/1/08 and 12/31/08, this includes a few, such as B Movie that came out late in 2007.

so can this settle before HP finishes it's run late February or something? it opens in November and will stay in theaters a long time probably.

as market creator, here is my opinion... using calendar 2008 provides some kind of a threshold, it captures the end run of movies released in late 2007 but still showing in early 2008, and will only capture a portion of the total box office for movies that debut in late 2008 but continue into early 2009.

i see so we only get to count the first, what is it 6 weeks, of the HP earnings? that's good with me, thats going to be most of it anyways.

harry potter is pushed back to next year, adventure has no chance now! good thing i cashed out my biggest bet a long time ago.