UK Film Data

Genre Number of releases Gross box office % gross box office

(£ million)

fantasy 5 90.6 34.1

comedy 23 77.6 29.2

thriller 5 32.4 12.2

horror 6 9.8 3.7

romance 4 0.9 0.3

Uk film council data shows that in 2007 fanatsy was the genre that had the largest box office success followed by the domedy genre. Romantic films and films of the war genre proves to be least sucessful in the box office only accumulating 0.3% gross box office. The Uk film council data for 2007 rank fantasy as the most sucessful genre in film, however in 2008 the two top grossing films adopt the thriller genre ' The Dark Knight' and the 'X-files the movie'. The performance of the fantasy genre in the box office in 2007 is said to be largely due to the return of thelatest outing of the Uk inward investment. Harry potter and the order of the phoenix' which made upto 55% of the box office for the fantasy genre, as was it in 2005 when the previous sequel was released harry potter and the goblet of fire.