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It’s been a tough year at the box office.
The attendance numbers hit a 16-year low. Not since 1995 have moviegoers trickled into the theaters. Big box office flops were a major disappointment for Hollywood studios and audiences alike. Sequels and remakes couldn't sell enough tickets. Even James Bond couldn’t salvage the trite slow-paced movie Cowboys & Aliens.
In 2011 3-D movies fell flat on their backs. Moviegoers do not want to tangle with clumsy 3-D glasses for two hours. The ticket prices also higher for 3-D movies but they don’t always deliver the goods, not like Here's the list:
Top 20 highest grossing movies worldwide for 2011:
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 – $1.3 billion
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon – $1.1 billion
- Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides – $1 billion
- Kung Fu Panda 2 – $663 million
- The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 – $648 million
- Fast Five – $626 million
- The Hangover Part II – $581.5 million
- The Smurfs – 562.4 million
- Cars 2 – $551.9 million
- Rio – $484.6 million
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes – $481.2 million
- Thor – $448.5 million
- Captain America: The First Avenger – $368.4 million
- X-Men: First Class – $353.6 million
- Puss in Boots – $331.3 million
- Bridesmaids – 288.4 million
- Real Steel – $276.4 million
- The Adventures of Tintin – $274.9 million
- Super 8 – $259.9 million
- Rango – $245.1 million
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