Box Office Success Of Thrillers

I have been researching Box Office success of thrillers. I found a table with tinformation on tickett sales and marketshare of thrillers (in US Dollars) on the website: http://www.the-numbers.com/market/Genres/Suspense.php

Here Is the begginning of the table:

As you can see, thrillers take up on average around 10% of the film market.

These lists show every single thriller made, in order of Box Office Success. One of the films I studied as research for my own thriller 'Vertigo' is the 4th most successful thriller in the box office. Some of the thriller signifiers, such as the use of plot twists and crime and corruption are in both Vertigo and our thriller Abduction (although many thriller have these signifiers, hopefully this means our thriller could be popular too).

However, none of our inspirations are in the top listings which means they are not as successful; we are not aiming to make a thriller purely to make it successful. We are aiming ours towards a niche audience and to get a message accross to people and sort of challenge the existing thriller conventions by making a film that is different from the mainstream thrillers. This could negatively effect the popularity and box office success of our thriller.