2012 Box Office: Blockbusters, Bombs and Best of the Rest

With history's best opening ever — and the worst — 2012 was a roller-coaster year at the box office … at least it was never dull

Warner Bros. had high hopes for its $150 million remake of the campy 1970s TV show “Dark Shadows” starring Johnny Depp. But it failed to break $30 million when it opened in May, and it soon became clear Barnabas Collins wasn’t going to be the next Jack Sparrow.

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