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

“Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure,” an indie designed to get toddlers up and screaming along, posted the worst wide opening ever with a microscopic $207 per-screen average in 2,160 theaters. Ken Viselman, the man responsible for bringing “Oogieloves” to the U.S., was undeterred by the dismal debut. “Now we’ve got the notoriety we were trying to get for weeks before we opened,” he said

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