Top Grossing Films

The current top 10 grossing films at box office at this moment in time (2012) are...

1.  Marvel's The Avengers (Genre: Action/Adventure) 
2.  The Dark Knight Rises (Genre: Action thriller) 
3.  Ice Age: Continental Drift (Genre: Animation) 
4.  The Amazing Spiderman (Genre: Action/Adventure) 
5.  The Hunger Games (Genre: Action/Adventure) 
6.  Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (Genre: Animation) 
7.  MIB 3 (Genre: Sci-Fi comedy) 
8.  Brave (Genre: Animation) 
9.  Ted (Genre: Comedy) 
10.  Prometheus (Genre: Sci-Fi Action) 

So after reviewing the current 10 top grossing films in the box office, the most popular genre off movies seems to be Action/Adventure films. Along with this, animation films also seem to be pretty popular due to the amount of kids that like to watch these kinds of genres of movies in the cinema. 

The top 10 films at box office during 2011 were...

1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (Genre: Fantasy)
2. Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Genre: Sci-Fi Action)
3. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Genre: Period Adventure)
4. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (Genre: Romance)
5. Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol (Genre: Action)
6. Kung Fu Panda 2 (Genre: Animation)
7. Fast Five (Genre: Action)
8. The Hangover Part II (Genre: Comedy)
9. The Smurfs (Genre: Family Comedy)
10. Cars 2 (Genre: Animation)

Looking at the top 10 films during 2011, the most popular film genre is a mixture between Action, Comedy and once again animation film. However , despite these being the main genre of the year, a fantasy film also known as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 is the most popular of films which made an estimated $1,328,111,219 worldwide. 

The Top 10 films at box office during 2010 were... 

1. Toy Story 3 (Genre: Animation) 
2. Alice in Wonderland (2010) (Genre: Family Adventure) 
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (Genre: Fantasy) 
4. Inception (Genre: Sci-Fi Action) 
5. Shrek Forever After (Genre: Animation) 
6. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Genre: Romance) 
7. Iron Man 2 (Genre: Action/Adventure) 
8. Tangled (Genre: Animation) 
9. Despicable Me (Genre: Animation) 
10. How to Train Your Dragon (Genre: Animation)