Question: Dark Knight Rises was the 3rd highest grossing film of what year?
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The highest-grossing film in Japan in 2013 was "The Wind Rises" and 5 of the 10 highest-grossing films in Japan in 2013 were anime, including also ' (3rd), ' (6th), ' (7th) and ' (10th). 
In 2012, the top film was "The Avengers" which grossed RM33,983,208, followed by "The Amazing Spider-Man", grossing RM21,993,313.
On July 8, "The Amazing Spider-Man" surpassed The Avengers (RM10,050,983) to score the best opening weekend this year with RM10,107,973.
However, "The Avengers" still scored the biggest Friday's single opening day gross of the year.
Both are still unable to top with advance ticketing sales and more addition of midnight shows.
"The Avengers" was retained in cinema for 15 weeks.
On July 22, "The Dark Knight Rises" opened to RM6,972,371, which is more than double the debut of "The Dark Knight", RM3,249,930 back in 2008.
"The Dark Knight Rises" was the second film retained the longest in cinema for 17 weeks while "" was the animated film retained the longest in cinema for 24 weeks in 2012.
It is the second highest grossing animated film in Malaysia just behind "Kung Fu Panda 2". 
The top ten films released in 2012 by worldwide gross are as follows:"The Hunger Games" was the first film since "Avatar" to place at No.
1 for four consecutive weekends at the North American box office.
After being re-released in 3-D in 2012, two films reached significant milestones: ' grossed $1.027 billion, becoming the eleventh film to surpass the $1 billion mark, and "Titanic" grossed $2.185 billion, becoming the second film to surpass the $2 billion mark, following "Avatar".
For the first time in history, four films that were released during the same year reached $1 billion.
"The Avengers" grossed $1.511 billion and is the third highest-grossing film worldwide (twelfth film to reach $1 billion).
"The Dark Knight Rises" grossed $1.084 billion and is the ninth highest-grossing film worldwide (thirteenth film to reach $1 billion).
"Skyfall" grossed over $1.1 billion and is the eighth highest-grossing film worldwide (fourteenth film to reach $1 billion). '
grossed over $1.017 billion and is the sixteenth highest-grossing film worldwide (fifteenth film to reach $1 billion).
Two other films (' and ') are also among the 50 highest-grossing films of all time. '
has become the eighth highest grossing animated film and ' is the eleventh highest grossing animated film.
Four other films ("Brave", "Wreck-It Ralph", "The Lorax", and "Hotel Transylvania") are also among the top 50 highest-grossing animated films. 
The year 2008 involved many major movie and film events.
The 2008 highest grossing films include "Kung Fu Panda", "The Dark Knight", "WALL-E" and "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull". 
Nolan wanted the story for the third and final installment to keep him emotionally invested.
"On a more superficial level, I have to ask the question," he reasoned, "how many good third movies in a franchise can people name?"
He returned out of finding a necessary way to continue the story, but feared midway through filming he would find a sequel redundant.
"The Dark Knight Rises" is intended to complete Nolan's "Batman" trilogy.
By December 2008, Nolan completed a rough story outline, before he committed himself to "Inception".
In February 2010, work on the screenplay was commencing with David S. Goyer and Jonathan Nolan.
When Goyer left to work on the "Superman" reboot, Jonathan was writing the script based on the story by his brother and Goyer.
Tom Hardy was cast as Bane and Anne Hathaway plays Selina Kyle.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt was cast as John Blake, and Marion Cotillard was cast as Miranda Tate.
Filming began in May 2011 and concluded in November.
Nolan chose not to film in 3-D but, by focusing on improving image quality and scale using the IMAX format, hoped to push technological boundaries while nevertheless making the style of the film consistent with the previous two.
Nolan had several meetings with IMAX Vice-President David Keighley to work on the logistics of projecting films in digital IMAX venues.
"The Dark Knight Rises" featured more scenes shot in IMAX than "The Dark Knight".
Cinematographer Wally Pfister expressed interest in shooting the film entirely in IMAX.
Upon release, "The Dark Knight Rises" received a positive critical response and was successful at the box office, going on to outgross its predecessor and become the ninth-highest-grossing film of all time grossing over $1.08 billion.
However, unlike its predecessors, the film was not nominated for any Oscars during its year of eligibility at the 85th Academy Awards, much to the surprise of film industry insiders.