Audience Awareness (Stats Analysis)

Recently I been doing some basic research into what genre of film has the largest audience. I done research about the statistics as to which has the largest audience in relation to it's worldwide grossing total. This figure only gives a basic idea of the audience size as the price of film tickets change but as the total gross is made up of multiple releases it gives an idea of the popularity of a film and it's genre.

Top 20 films of all times

(worldwide gross)

1. Avatar (2009)
2. Titanic (1997)
3. Marvel's The Avengers (2012)
4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 (2011)
5. Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
6. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
7. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
8. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
9. Toy Story 3 (2010)
10. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
11. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
12. Alice in Wonderland (2010)
13. The Dark Knight (2008)
14. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
15. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
16. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 (2010)
17. The Lion King (1994)
18. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
19. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
20. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

From these twenty we can get a basic understanding as to the most popular genre of film. 

In the basic look it would seem that action is one of the most popular genres. It would also seem that films using  CGI or animation have a higher audience than live action films.