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Movie Box Office Grosses, 2008

Rank	Title	Distributor	Total Domestic Gross	Open Date
1.	The Dark Knight	Warner Bros.	$531,001,578	18 July 2008
2.	Iron Man	Paramount	$318,313,199	2 May 2008
3.	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull	Paramount	$317,023,851	22 May 2008
4.	Hancock	Sony	$227,946,274	2 July 2008
5.	WALL-E	Walt Disney	$223,806,889	27 June 2008
6.	Kung-Fu Panda	Paramount/Dreamworks	$215,434,591	6 June 2008
7.	Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa	Paramount	$177,016,810	7 November 2008
8.	Twilight	Summit Entertainment	$176,922,850	21 November 2008
9.	Quantum of Solace	Sony	$166,820,413	14 November 2008
10.	Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!	Fox	$154,529,439	14 March 2008

As of 4 January 2009.

Source: Exhibitor Relations Co., Inc.

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