Earlier this year, Stephen Spielberg and George Lucas inspired a lot of movie-biz handwringing when they predicted the imminent demise of Hollywood due to its addiction to the blockbuster business model.

Now the numbers have come in, and not to put too fine a point on it, but they were wrong—when it comes to 2013, anyway.

Variety is reporting that 2013 is a record-setting year for domestic box office numbers, with a good chance that ticket revenues could exceed $11 billion for the first time in history. (Again, this is merely domestic box office we’re talking about; worldwide box office is much higher than that.) You can see the highest grossing films of 2013 here; the worldwide numbers are here.

A couple of observations here:

• 6 of the top 10 grossing films are direct sequels to another film; if you include reboots of existing film properties, like Man of Steel and Oz the Great and Powerful, that number climbs to 8. (Sequels to Thor and The Hobbit very nearly cracked the top 10.) That means that we’ll be seeing plenty more sequels and reboots, critical complaints notwithstanding.

• Animated films did very well, occupying 3 of the top 10 slots—especially Frozen, which climbed to #7 in a mere month. Maybe this will finally put to rest the lie that audiences don’t come out for movies about women.

• Summer movies aren’t as dominant as one would think—this summer had a large number of bombs. In fact, you might argue that the year was saved by a small handful of late-year blockbusters: Gravity (#6, an October release), The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (#2 and climbing, a November release), Frozen, (#7, also released in November), and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (#13, though it would surely be higher if it hadn’t been released mere weeks ago in mid-December).