No, seriously. Who was it? Dark Horizons has the top 10 highest-grossing movies of 2008, and numbers don’t lie. Some of you out there saw Madagascar 2.
2008 U.S. Domestic Box-Office Top Ten
1. The Dark Knight – $530.9 million
2. Iron Man – $318.3 million
3. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – $317.0 million
4. Hancock – $227.9 million
5. Wall-E – $223.8 million
6. Kung Fu Panda – $215.4 million
7. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa – $174.9 million
8. Twilight – $167.3 million
9. Quantum of Solace – $164.3 million
10. Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! – $154.5 million
The worldwide top 10 is after the jump.
2008 Worldwide Box-Office Top Ten
1. The Dark Knight – $996.9 million
2. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – $786.6 million
3. Kung Fu Panda – $631.9 million
4. Hancock – $624.4 million
5. Iron Man – $581.9 million
6. Mamma Mia! – $572.2 million
7. Quantum of Solace – $537.1 million
8. Wall-E – $507.3 million
9. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa – $457.2 million
10. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian – $419.6 million
Nice work, Dark Knight! But don’t get too uppity: The number-one movie worldwide is still 1997’s Titanic, which made $1,835,300,000. Just remember that every time you think about how cool you are, Christopher Nolan: You still got your ass whooped by a Leonardo DiCaprio tearjerker.
And me without my cyanide pills. Where did I put those damn things.