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

Despite starring Tom Cruise – as aging rock icon Stacy Jaxx – Alec Baldwin and Russell Brand, the $75 million musical comedy “Rock of Ages” was a box-office bummer for Warner Bros., opening to $15 million in June.

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