While the final numbers aren't in yet this has been a real roller coaster of a year at the box office with everything from the runaway success of "The Avengers" to the Wachowski's DOA "Cloud Atlas". Appalling events like the Colorado theater shooting sent domestic box office results reeling for a couple of weeks while the number of movie goers in places like totalitarian China continues to grow by the day. While overall numbers will likely show a modest increase this year over last the fact is that the number of movies being produced by studios continues to dwindle as the focus on humungous, tent-pole productions continues to grow.
So without further ado here are the 10 biggest global box office successes of 2012.
1) The Avengers - $1.5 billion
2) The Dark Knight Rises - $1.08 billion
3) Skyfall* - $952 million
4) Ice Age: Continental Drift* - $875 million
5) Twilight Breaking Dawn 2* - $778 million
6) The Amazing Spider-Man - $752 million
7) Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted - $742 million
8) The Hunger Games - $686 million
9) Men in Black 3 - $624 million
10) Brave - $535 million
* Still in theaters as of this writing.
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