UK Film Statistics Research

We needed to find out some key statistics for horror, thriller and romantic comedies before making our production. The UK film box office helps as it allows people to pin point key parts of information. Below is a table of data regarding thriller, horror and romance films in 2011.



UK Film Statistics

 

From this table you can tell that over all horror make the most films making 31 which was 5.6% of all releases. For the horror genre the top preforming title was Paranormal Activity 2 .The second most made genre out of the three was thriller making 20 films which was 3.6%. Last was romance making 19 films which was 3.4%. Out of all genres there was 557 releases.

The highest gross at the box office in millions was the romance genre making 58.4. Second was the horror genre making 54.1. Last by a long way opposed to the other two genres was thriller, this made 19.3. There was 1,023.6 million made over all genres.

For each genre each films has a top performing title. The top performing title for thriller was Shutter Island. For the horror genre the top preforming title was Paranormal Activity 2. Finally the top performing title for the romance genre was The Twightlight Saga: Eclipse.