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The 2010s were a decade that saw many box office records broken, including in Arlington at the Capitol Theatre. The theater has been entertaining Arlington audiences since 1925. While the price of the average movie ticket has risen since then, the timeless charm of the cinema lives on.

The Capitol provided The Advocate with a list of its biggest movies of the decade, with animated favorites and inspiring true stories proving to be the most popular films for Arlington residents this decade.

10. Lego Movie (2014)

Worldwide Box Office: $468 million

The whole family was invited for this surprise box office smash, featuring the popular Danish building blocks and a litany of pop culture figures, including Batman, Han Solo and Shaquille ONeal. The success of the movie spawned a series of sequels and spin-offs, including The Lego Move 2: The Second Part, The Lego Batman Movie and The Lego Ninjago Movie.

9. The Social Network (2010)

Worldwide Box Office: $225 million

The story about the creation and rise of social media giant Facebook was a crowd favorite in 2010, and is the only R-rated film to crack the Capitols top 10. The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards and in 2019 Esquire magazine named it the best film of the 2010s.

8. Hidden Figures (2016)

Worldwide Box Office: $236 million

Theodore Melfis 2016 drama about Katherine Johnson, a mathematician whose prodigious calculating abilities helped propel NASA into space during the 1960s was a major success at the box office and on award ballots, earning three Academy Award nominations and two Golden Globe nominations.

7. The Help (2011)

Worldwide Box Office: $216 million

Based on a best-selling novel that told the story of black women working in white households in Jackson, Mississippi in the 1960s, The Help featured a rich cast of leading women, including Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain and Bryce Dallas Howard.

6. Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

Worldwide Box Office: $865 million

The second installment in the Hunger Games trilogy, the movie series based on Suzanne Collins best-selling novel series, was the biggest box office success at the Capitol. The story of arrow-shooting heroine Katniss Everdeen made Catching Fire one of the most successful female-starring movies in film history.

5. Frozen (2013)

Worldwide Box Office: $1.25 billion

Speaking of female leads, nothing was quite as big in the 2010s to young girls like the Disney animated film "Frozen." The chilly story of sisters Elsa and Anna is one of the most successful films in Disneys illustrious history, and the movies soundtrack has been played on countless car rides around Arlington since.

4. Black Panther (2018)

Worldwide Box Office: $1.34 billion

Ryan Cooglers epic superhero movie took viewers to the futuristic world of Wakanda and broke numerous box office records, including the highest-grossing solo superhero film, the highest-grossing film by a black director and the highest grossing opening weekend for a predominantly black cast.

3. Despicable Me (2010)

Worldwide Box Office: $543 million

The animated film about Gru, a wannabe supervillain tasked with taking care of three young girls would spawn one of the most successful film franchises of the decade, with two sequels and one spinoff being released later in the decade. However, the first movie is better known for introducing the world (and frightened parents) to the yellow, gibberish-spouting, overall-wearing creatures known as Minions.

2. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

Worldwide Box Office: $2.06 billion

The hype was strong with this one. The highly anticipated start of the third "Star Wars" trilogy was a box office monster, according to website Box Office Mojo, the film sold 110 million tickets in North America alone. The series would include 2017s The Last Jedi and 2019 The Rise of Skywalker which is in theaters this Friday.

1. Inside Out (2015)

Worldwide Box Office: $857 million

Toppling goliaths like "Star Wars" and "Frozen" isnt an easy task, but Pixars sweet story of a girl and the different emotions that make up human behavior was a huge hit with audiences of all ages and ended up being the top movie of the Capitol in 2019.

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