The statistic provides information on the leading genres of the blockbuster movies based on a study on movies from 1975 to 2013. According to the findings, 46 percent of blockbusters were classified (among others) as action movies.
Leading genres of blockbuster movies from 1975 to 2013
To be qualified as a blockbuster, a film needed to be tagged as a 'blockbuster' on the IMDB website, receive at least 50,000 ratings from IMDB users and be released in 1975 or later. The source states: "IMDb breaks down genre into 20 distinct categories, but a film can fall into any number of them; the median number of genres listed for a film in our set was four. “Star Wars” (1977), for instance, was assigned action, adventure, fantasy and sci-fi.6 Of our set of 384 blockbuster films, the most popular genre was, as expected, action (177 films), followed by adventure (161 films), thriller (124 films), comedy (122) and drama (112)."
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FiveThirtyEight. (May 2, 2014). Leading genres of blockbuster movies from 1975 to 2013 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved November 22, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/305312/genres-blockbuster-movies/
FiveThirtyEight. "Leading genres of blockbuster movies from 1975 to 2013." Chart. May 2, 2014. Statista. Accessed November 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/305312/genres-blockbuster-movies/
FiveThirtyEight. (2014). Leading genres of blockbuster movies from 1975 to 2013. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: November 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/305312/genres-blockbuster-movies/
FiveThirtyEight. "Leading Genres of Blockbuster Movies from 1975 to 2013." Statista, Statista Inc., 2 May 2014, https://www.statista.com/statistics/305312/genres-blockbuster-movies/
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Leading genres of blockbuster movies from 1975 to 2013 [Graph], FiveThirtyEight, May 2, 2014. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/305312/genres-blockbuster-movies/
