Hollywood is celebrating the 83rd Annual Academy Awards Ceremony on February 27, 2011. The Dow Jones Media Titans 30 Index tracks the performance of publicly traded film production companies as well as the entertainment industry on which the success of movies have an impact. Since the last Oscar ceremony on March 7, 2010, the Dow Jones Media Titans 30 Index is up 33.65% while the Dow Jones Global Titans 50 Index, a global blue-chip index that measures the largest multinational companies is up 12.87% over the same time period.
Toy Story 3 is the top worldwide box office seller of 2010 with a worldwide gross of US$1,063.2 billion. Within the top ten 2010 worldwide box office sellers are Alice in Wonderland (2010), US$1,024.3 billion; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, US $947.6 million; Inception, US $823.6 million; Shrek Forever After, US$750.0 million; The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, US$693.6 million; Iron Man 2, US$622.1 million; Despicable Me, US$543.7 million; How to Train Your Dragon, ($494.9 million) and Clash of the Titans (2010), US$493.2 million.
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