Secondary Task: UK Film Council

The information used on the blog post is from the uk film council webiste statistical year book.

Table 1.

The table shows that comedy movies had the highest number of releases and was the top-grossing genre at the UK box office. It also shows that comedy is the most popular genre of film in the UK that people want to watch.

Thriller was the second most popular genre; horror third and romance was forth.
However comedy has the most amount of releases, so it would be expected to make more money. In comparison thriller had the least amount of films released but it still came fifth in the rankings, so it could be argued if thriller had more releases it could have made more money than comedy.
Romance came 14th in the ranking and shows the UK public are not really into Romance if there is no comedy involved and would much rather watch thriller horror or comedy.

In comparison to horror, thriller had a similar amount of releases but ranked 10th on the list, so this shows that even though it has a similar amount of releases it did not make as much money, showing it is not as popular as comedy or thriller.

Romance ranked lowest at 14th on the list. It had 21 releases and made the least amount of money from the box office on the table. This shows that out of the four it is the most unpopular film to be made and to make money at the box office.
Therefore if you combining the research about romance films and comedy films, when making our own romantic-comedy, more comedy than romance would be needed in it in order to make more money.

Table 2.

This shows the average number of sites at widest point of release versus the number of places that the film was shown at the time of release.

Table 3

This table shows how much money was made on each site for each of the genre.
Horror came last out of the four so therefore made the least amount of money out of all of the genres. This shows that this genre was the least popular and would not make much money.
Thriller came third which made it the third least popular genre, and would not make as much money as a romantic film or a comedy film. However it wasn't far away from beating the romantic genre.
Romance was the second out of the four. The most popular out of the four genres was Comedy which made the most money and was the most popular out of the four. If I chose to create my opening sequence as a comedy the romance genre will be combined too so most certainly could be the most popular and would make a significant amount of money.