Transformers: Age of Extinction is the biggest box office hit of 2014.
Michael Bay's fourth instalment in the robot action saga earned more than $1 billion from cinemas worldwide this year, easily securing it the top spot ahead of Marvel blockbuster Guardians of the Galaxy.
Age of Extinction's earnings of $245,439,076 in the US makes it the least successful domestic performer in the franchise, however it's huge foreign gross of $841,965,423 helped power it to the top of the charts.
Filming in Hong Kong, the movie was one of the few Hollywood blockbusters to benefit from a release in the fast-expanding Chinese market. It's $300 million gross made it the highest-earning film in the country's history, overtaking 2009's Avatar.
Despite its success in 2014, Age of Extinction is still only the second-biggest earner in the Transformers series behind Dark of the Moon, which earned $1,123,794,079 worldwide in 2011.
Elsewhere in 2014, Marvel registered two films in the top ten with the aforementioned Guardians of the Galaxy in second place and Captain America: The Winter Soldier at number five.
Angelina Jolie's Maleficent and X-Men: Days of Future Past both made it into the top five, while there were also strong showings for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
The top 20 highest grossing films of 2014 are below as of Tuesday, December 23: 1. Transformers: Age of Extinction - $1,087,404,499 2. Guardians of the Galaxy - $772,257,316 3. Maleficent - $757,752,378 4. X-Men: Days of Future Past - $746,045,700 5. Captain America: The Winter Soldier - $714,083,572 6. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - $708,982,323 7. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - $708,279,489 8. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 - $639,856,110 9. Interstellar - $635,535,531 10. How to Train Your Dragon 2 - $618,909,935 11. Godzilla - $524,976,069 12. Rio 2 - $498,781,117 13. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - $477,204,754 14. The Lego Movie - $468,060,692 15. Lucy - $458,863,600 16. Edge of Tomorrow - $369,206,256 17. Noah - $362,637,473 18. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - $358,131,544 19. Gone Girl - $349,344,822 20. The Maze Runner - $339,543,969