Iron Man 3 Is Highest-Grossing Movie of 2013 With $1.2 Billion

Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow’s superhero flick Iron Man 3 is officially the highest-grossing movie of 2013.

Iron Man 3, which hit cinemas May 2013 brought in just over $409 million at the box office (according to Digital Spy). And internationally, the flick raked in a whopping $806 million! That means that Iron Man 3 grossed $1.2 billion globally!

Despicable Me 2 came in second on the list of highest-grossing films of 2013 with a staggering $918,573,535, followed by Fast & Furious 6 with $788,679,850 in profits. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire earned $771,484,011, Monsters University grossed $743,559,607 and Man of Steel banked $662,845,518, coming in sixth.

Here’s what other movies made the top 20 list:

7. Gravity: $652,394,288
8. Thor: The Dark World: $627,858,622
9. The Croods: $587,204,668
10. World War Z: $540,007,876
11. Oz the Great and Powerful: $493,311,825
12. Star Trek Into Darkness: $467,365,246
13. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug: $426,244,000
14. The Wolverine: $414,828,246
15. Pacific Rim: $407,602,906
16. GI Joe: Retaliation: $375,740,705
17. Frozen: $363,012,773
18. Now You See Me: $351,723,989
19. The Hangover Part III: $351,000,072
20. The Great Gatsby: $348,840,419

In other 2013 movie news, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was the years most pirated film, followed by Django Unchained and Fast & Furious 6.

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