It’s that time of year again, folks. First we decorate a tree with tinsel, next we decorate WORDS AND THINGS WITH NUMBERS NEXT TO THEM! IT’S LIST TIME, OOH WHA-AH AH-AH! Anyway, while I busy myself compiling my ten best of 2010 list (TRY NOT TO GNAW OFF YOUR ARM IN ANTICIPATION!), here’s a more fact-y list for you to chew on, the highest-grossing films of 2010. You know, if you’re into that kind of thing. BOOM, IT’S TIME TO GET LINEAR!
10. Clash of the Titans, $493.2 million worldwide
9. How to Train Your Dragon, $494.9 worldwide
8. Despicable Me, $539.9 million
7. Iron Man 2, $582.2 million
6. Twilight Saga: Eclipse, $693.5 million
5. Shrek Forever After: $739.8 million
4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1. $824.1
3. Inception, $825.4
2. Alice in Wonderland, $1 billion
1. Toy Story 3, $1.1 billion [via THR]
All in all, not so bad. Sure, Clash of the Titans and Twilight got in there (and Shrek 4, really?), but out of the ten, a good three or four of them were actually decent movies. Here’s the top 10 of 2009 for comparison:
(the first number column is worldwide gross, the second one is US and Canada)
| 1 | Avatar | 20th Century Fox | $2,779,404,183 | $760,507,625 | ||
| 2 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | Warner Bros. | $933,959,197 | $301,959,197 | ||
| 3 | Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs | 20th Century Fox | $886,686,280 | $196,573,705 | ||
| 4 | Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | DreamWorks/Paramount | $836,297,228 | $402,111,870 | ||
| 5 | 2012 | Columbia Pictures | $769,679,128 | $166,112,167 | ||
| 6 | Up | Disney/Pixar | $731,342,724 | $293,004,164 | ||
| 7 | The Twilight Saga: New Moon | Summit Entertainment | $709,826,790 | $296,623,634 | ||
| 8 | Sherlock Holmes | Warner Bros. | $523,028,679 | $209,028,679 | ||
| 9 | Angels & Demons | Columbia Pictures. | $485,930,816 | $133,375,846 | ||
| 10 | The Hangover | Warner Bros. | $467,483,912 | $277,322,503 |
Dare I say 2010 was better? Yes, I predict that decades from now, your grandkids will sit cross-legged, jostling for position while you recount your stories from the days of 2010, the year things sucked less than they could have.
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Alice in Wonderland made a billion? Wow. *Takes the hookah from the caterpillar, inhales deeply*
Robert Pattinson in that pic looks like he’s preparing to jack off . . . to Jackson Rathbone?
All I have to say is that Vincent Gallo is Joaquin Phoenix with a good lip.
Oh, come on. Everyone knows my grandkids will be so busy grappling with their mental instability after being raised on nothing other than 3D movies based on cartoons that are based on toys that they won’t be able to lead anything resembling a normal, healthy life.
Alice in Wonderland cleaned up at the box office based solely on Johnny Depp’s dance moves.
Fuck Toy Story 3. It has Tim Allen in it.
Theres a pretty catty link to the Comments of the Year post over at WithLeather I think someones mad they can’t come up with as many good dick jokes as you Vince.
I’m not sure that I can live in a world where Clash of the Titans makes $493.2 million.