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Box Office GROSS: The Top 50 Hit Films of 2006

by Brian Schmid
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Revisiting the top 50 highest-grossing films of 2006 with the hindsight of twenty years, looking into the mostly-forgotten films that made the most money, why they were hits in their moment, and why they did or (more likely) did not endure in the popular culture.

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