The second Hobbit movie, The Desolation of Smaug, managed – in just 19 days in release – to be the highest grossing movie at the New Zealand box office for 2013. Here’s the full top 10 (with distributor and total gross in $NZ):
1. Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Warner Bros) $6,805,247
2. Iron Man 3 (Walt Disney) $6,731,701
3. Despicable Me 2 (Paramount) $6,579,583
4. Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Roadshow) $6,520,371
5. Life of Pi (Fox) $5,050,973
6.Fast & Furious 6 (Paramount) $4,263,544
7. Gravity (Warner Bros) $3,824,123
8. Les Miserables (Paramount) $3,786,666
9. The Croods (Fox) $3,758,239
10. Man of Steel (Warner Bros) $3,492,595
Elsewhere, Iron Man 3 topped worldwide box offices for the year – but many films are still in release. Here are the worldwide top 10 in $US, those still in release are marked with an *.
Worldwide Top 10 Box Office Grosses
1. Iron Man 3 (BV) $1,215.4
2. *Despicable Me 2 (Universal) $918.8
3. *The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Lions Gate) $802.3
4. Fast & Furious 6 (Universal) $788.7
5. Monsters University (BV) $743.6
6. Man of Steel (Warner Bros) $662.8
7. *Gravity (Warner Bros) $653.7
8. *The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Warner Bros) $637.2
9. *Thor: The Dark World (BV) $629.9
10. The Croods (Fox) $587.2
