2010 Box Office Receipts: 3-D Surcharges Are Alive and Well

The year-end box office receipts are in, and Hollywood fell just short of last year's record-setting $10.6 billion haul. While ticket receipts still broke $10 billion, overall attendance this year dropped a whopping 5.36 percent, making 2010 the second-lowest-attended year of the last decade. This drop, along with the fact that awful 3-D conversion of Clash of the Titans finished just outside the top 10, suggests that audiences this year were totally down with that 3-D surcharge. Also interesting is the fact that almost half of the top 10 films of the year, including the number-one ranked Toy Story 3, were CGI animation. Watch your backs, bankable actors!

The overall theatrical total for 2010 looks like it will reach $10.556 billion. Despite the small decrease from last year, this still marks only the second time that annual box office has crossed $10 billion.

1. Toy Story 3 - $415,004,880

2. Alice in Wonderland - $334,191,110

3. Iron Man 2 - $312,128,345

4. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse - $300,531,751

5. Inception - $292,525,041

6. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 - $274,392,000

7. Despicable Me - $250,838,935

8. Shrek Forever After - $238,395,990

9. How to Train Your Dragon - $217,581,231

10. The Karate Kid - $176,591,618

11.Clash of the Titans - $163,214,888

12. Grown Ups - $162,001,186

13. Tangled - $146,933,756

14. Megamind - $142,868,000

15. The Last Airbender - $131,601,062

16. Shutter Island - $128,012,934

17. The Other Guys - $119,219,978

18. Salt - $118,311,368

19. Jackass 3-D - $116,956,000

20. Valentine's Day - $110,485,654

[AP, Box Office Mojo]