Worldwide Box Office Grosses for 2013

So far...

1. Iron Man 3 - $1.215 billion
2. Despicable Me 2 - $911.8 million
3. Fast & Furious 6 - $788.7 million
4. Monsters University - $742.9 million
5. Man of Steel - $662.8 million
6. The Croods - $587.2 million
7. World War Z - $540 million
8. Oz the Great and Powerful - $493.3 million
9. Star Trek Into Darkness - $467.4 million
10. Gravity - $426.4 million
11. The Wolverine - $413.5 million
12. Pacific Rim - $407.6 million
13. GI Joe: Retaliation - $375.7 million
14. Now You See Me - $351.7 million
15. The Hangover III - $351 million
16. The Great Gatsby - $348.8 million
17. The Smurfs 2 - $344.2 million
18. The Conjuring - $313.6 million
19. A Good Day to Die Hard - $304.7 million
20. Oblivion - $286.2 million

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Those are the movies that fund the rest of the film industry.