3D helps drive global box office to $31.8 billion

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The global box office hit a record $31.8 billion in 2010, growing 8 percent from the year before on the strength of 3D ticket sales and a hot Asia-Pacific market, a Hollywood industry group said on Wednesday.

But U.S. and Canadian movie ticket revenues were flat at $10.6 billion, according to the Motion Picture Association of America, which represents major U.S. film studios in government and business affairs.

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