Rock-eting to the top! Dwayne Johnson named highest-grossing movie star in Hollywood with $1.3BILLION in ticket sales.

                                                     Dwayne Johnson has now wrestled his way to the top of the box office.

The WWE champion has just been named the top grossing actor in Hollywood with $1.3billion in ticket sales for 2013. The 41-year-old beat out Robert Downey Jr whose blockbuster Iron Man 3 pulled in $1.2billion.

But The Rock inched his way past Downey Jr on the Forbes list not with a single film but a flurry of action-packed movies, including Fast And Furious 6 and G.I. Joe Retaliation.

Although, the Iron Man star is still the highest-earning actor, dragging in over $29million more than Dwayne in personal earnings with a whopping $75million.

But Johnson may continue to out gross Downey Jr as he has a slew of promising blockbusters in the pipeline for 2014, whereas Robert's filming schedule is predominantly smaller films.

                                            Fast And Furious 6 was the former wrestling champ's biggest ticket item with an impressive $789 million worldwide. The gross nudged his co-stars Vin Diesel into fourth place with $887million and the late Paul Walker into sixth.  Sitting in third place is Steve Carell, who earned the spot with his highly successful animated sequel Despicable Me 2, which pulled in $919million.

Sandra Bullock took fifth on Forbes' list with Gravity and The Heat, which earned a combined $862million.

Meanwhile, The Rock has two blockbuster films lined up for 2014 that could solidify him for another run at highest grossing movie star. In the pipeline is Fast & Furious 7 along with Brett Ratner's Hercules, set to hit theatres on July 25

posted by Emanto Ngaloru Nov 18, 2013.