As 2009 comes to a close, Hollywood made out like bandits despite the bad economy. In comic book film news, Fox’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which is currently the #11 movie released in 2009, was the top-grossing comic book based movie with a domestic total of $179,883,157, followed by Warner Bros.’ Watchmen, which earned $107,509,79 and is the #28 top grossing movie of the year. On the general genre movie news Disney’s Surrogates settles at #72 making only $38,577,772 while top properties include the #1 film of the year, Transformers: Revenge of the Fall which earned $402,111,870, The Twilight Saga: New Moon is at #4, earning $281,930,000, Star Trek sits comfortably at #6, with box office earnings of $257,730, 019, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra earned #16, $150,201,498, and Coraline took #39, $75,286,229. Despite stolen films, bad critic reviews, and being mocked by the core nerd market these films helped Hollywood have an increase earnings of $10.4 billion which is an increase from last years $9.68 billion in 2008. Believe it or not the increase in earnings is a result of the rise in 3-D and Imax releases coupled with the higher ticket prices for both.
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