The highest-grossing movies at the 2024box officeall share one sad similarity.

The year has broken a variety of records thanks to movies from a wide range of genres.

Pixar’s Inside Out 2 has become 2024’s highest-grossing movie.

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Suffice it to say, it made so much money while also breaking few box office records.

This was not the case earlier in the year.

In July, the 15highest grossing movies of 2024included original titles such as Alex Garland’sCivil War(now No.

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31 with $126.2 million), John Krasinski’sIF(No.

22 with $190.3 million), the biopicBob Marley: One Love(No.

24 with $180.8 million) and the Jason Statham actionerThe Beekeeper(No.

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27 with $152.7 million).

Additionally, original stories have been adapted from multimedia franchises includingGreta Gerwig’sBarbie,Sonic the Hedgehog, andUncharted.

BothSonic the HedgehogandUnchartedbring popular video game franchises to the big screen.

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16 movie of the year worldwide at the time of writing.

3 for the year), 2013’sFrozen(No.

1), 2010’sInception(No.

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4), 2007’sRatatouille(No.

6), 2003’sFinding Nemo(No.

2), and 1999’sThe Sixth Sense(No.

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