Box Office: The 20 Most Profitable Films of 2013

A diverse slate of films -- from "Iron Man 3" to "The Conjuring" to "Lee Daniels' The Butler" -- delivered the film business its best year on record at the North American box office, despite a handful of monumental bombs. No one in Hollywood could believe it when New Line and Warner Bros.' horror pic The Conjuring, released in late July, came out of nowhere to earn $316.7 million worldwide, handily beating big-budget summer disasters The Lone Ranger and After Earth. It was smaller films like The...