Taylor Kitsch and Rihanna, making her film debut, couldn't keep Universal’s “Battleship” from hitting the shoals at the U.S. box office. The studio's parent company Comcast took a financial beating on the $200 million aliens-at-sea saga, but it would have been worse if “Battleship” hadn’t already made $225 million abroad.
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