Despicable Me 2 Tops at the BOX Office in UK & Ireland
In the year 2013, Despicable Me 2 was the biggest hit movie and it has earned £47 million at the box office. The other big hits included The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug & Les Miserables both the movies have earned £40 million at cinemas in the UK and Republic of Ireland.
February 01st, 2014
The following list is the 20 highest grossing movies released United Kingdom (UK) and Republic of Ireland in 2013
1. Despicable Me 2 - £47.46 million 2. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - £41.59 million 3. Les Miserables - £40.82 million 4. Iron Man 3 - £36.97 million 5. Frozen - £34.17 million 6. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - £33.79 million 7. Monsters University - £30.69 million 8. Man Of Steel - £29.95 million 9. Gravity - £28.85 million 10. The Croods - £26.78 million 11. Star Trek: Into Darkness - £25.82 million 12. Fast And Furious 6 - £25.27 million 13. Wreck-It Ralph - £23.78 million 14. Thor: The Dark World - £19.85 million 15. The Hangover Part III - £19.32 million 16. Captain Phillips - £16.09 million 17. Django Unchained - £15.74 million 18. The Great Gatsby - £15.73 million 19. Oz: The Great and Powerful - £15.28 million 20. World War Z - £14.57 million
Phenakistoscope (1831) A phenakistoscope disc by Eadweard Muybridge (1893).The phenakistoscope was an early animation device. It was invented in 1831 simultaneously by the Belgian Joseph Plateau and the Austrian Simon von Stampfer. It consists of a disk with a series of images, drawn on radii evenly spaced around the center of the disk. Slots are cut out of the disk on the same radii as the drawings, but at a different distance from the center. The device would be placed in front of a mirror and spun. As the phenakistoscope is spun, a viewer would look through the slots at the reflection of the drawings which would only become visible when a slot passes by the viewer's eye. This created the illusion of animation.
