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

“Dark Knight Rises” will forever be tied to the opening night tragedy at an Aurora, Colo., theater in which 12 died and 58 were injured. But the finale of director Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy still opened to more than $160 million, took in nearly $450 million in the U.S. and went on to gross $1.08 billion worldwide for Warner Bros.

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