Box office

Romantic comedies (which comes under comedies on the UK film council table) was the highest in the box office charts in Ireland and UK in 2008. The top scoring films was Sex an the City. Rom - coms made around 222.4 (£ million) in the box office selling tickets. They also released the most films that year out of all the genres showing there is a demand for them in the cinema. Romantic comedies takes up 23.8% of the gross of box office (Purple). Some of the films that take up the top twenty UK films in the UK box office from 1999 - 2008 are romantic comedies e.g. at number 11. Bridget Jones's Diary, 13 Love Actually, 15. Bridget Jones's: The Edge of Reason, 17 Notting Hill. These are the films that if you ask what films are romantic comedies most would say the names of these films. I the All time top 10 independent UK films the highest film was Four Weddings and a Funeral which is a romantic comedy. This shows what a high demand romantic comedies are this also show that romantic comedies do better in the independent film category than at the box office this could be because it is simple and do not have all the dramatic effect of script that Hollywood use and the audience can connect with the film.