What were the biggest box office earners of 2014?

From 12 Years a Slave to The Grand Budapest Hotel, Guardians of the Galaxy to X-Men: Days of Future Past, Gone Girl to Noble, The Lego Movie to The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1.

We’ve seen Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing in The Imitation Game, Leonardo Di Caprio as Jordon Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street, Michael Fassbender as the paper-mâché mask wearer Frank, Matthew McConaughey as Ron Woodroof in Dallas Buyers Club, Angelina Jolie as Maleficent, Rosamund Pike as Amy Elliott-Dunne in Gone Girl and Lupita Nyong'o as Patsey in 12 Years a Slave.

But what were the big earners at the box office?

The top 10 films released in 2014 by worldwide gross are as follows - with the areas of sci-fi, superhero and fantasy dominating the list:

1. Transformers: Age of Extinction (Paramount Pictures) - $1,087,404,499
2. Guardians of the Galaxy (Marvel Studios) - $771,454,000
3. Maleficent (Walt Disney Pictures) - $757,723,217
4. X-Men: Days of Future Past (20th Century Fox) - $746,045,700
5. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Marvel Studios) - $714,083,572
6. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (Columbia Pictures) - $708,982,323
7. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (20th Century Fox) - $708,266,226
8. How to Train Your Dragon 2 (20th Century Fox/DreamWorks Animation) - $618,849,989
9. Interstellar (Paramount Pictures/Legendary Pictures) - $542,290,000
10. Godzilla (Warner Bros./Legendary Pictures) - $524,976,069

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