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10 Favorite Stories of 2010: Christopher’s Picks

As noted by my esteemed colleagues , it’s much easier to pick out 10 memorable works from other people than it is to find 10 of your own. Low self-esteem be damned, though, I’m going for it! Here now are the 10 stories I loved covering most over the last year.

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10 Favorite Stories of 2010: Christopher’s Picks

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!

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