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

With its stars Tom Hanks and Halle Berry and $100 million budget, there was plenty of buzz around “Cloud Atlas,” the sci-fi epic from Andy and Lana Wachowski and Tom Tykwer. Their adaptation of David Mitchell's sprawling 2004 novel told six interweaving stories and the actors bent genders and eras playing multiple roles. U.S. audiences shrugged, however, and it has taken in less than $30 million.

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