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- 2023 has been a year of unpredictability at the box office, with a number of films flopping or underperforming despite having pre-existing audiences or major hype ahead of their releases. Though there have been a few surprise hits among this year’s releases, it only proved how unpredictable things currently are at the box office.
- Disney. Highs: “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” ($845 million), “The Little Mermaid” ($569 million), “Elemental” ($496 million) Lows: “The Marvels” ($204 million), “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” ($383 million), “Wish” ($126 million)
- Paramount. Highs: “Scream VI” ($169 million), “PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie” ($197 million), “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” ($180 million), “Killers of the Flower Moon” ($156 million)
- Sony. Highs: “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” ($690 million), “Equalizer 3” ($190 million), “Napoleon” ($200 million) Lows: “Dumb Money” ($20 million), “65” ($60 million)
- Universal. Highs: “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” ($1.36 billion), “Oppenheimer” ($951 million), “Five Nights at Freddy’s” ($289 million), “M3GAN” ($180 million)
See Top 2023 Movies at the Domestic Box Office for the total domestic box office for the top 100 movies released in 2023, and Movie Index 2023 for an overview of all movies released in 2023. Top Grossing Movies of 2023. Our Theatrical Market pages are based on the Domestic Theatrical Market performance only.
- Box Office Still Hasn't Recovered from The Pandemic
- Audience Viewing Habits Have Changed
- Higher Budgets Aren't Resulting in Higher Box Office
- Is Decades of Hollywood Apathy Finally Hitting Home?
When the pandemic was declared in March 2020, many theaters were either closed or restricted worldwide, which had a big impact on film revenue and box office numbers. There were numerous highly-anticipated 2020 films, such as Fast & Furious 9, No Time to Die, and A Quiet Place: Part II that had to push back their theatrical releases to try and opti...
While the simultaneous release of films in theaters and on video on demand allowed them to get a chance at bringing in some revenue they might not have if they were only released in theaters, it led to a change in viewing habits. Even three years since the pandemic was declared, most films spend just a short time in theaters before hitting home rel...
One of the biggest trends seen at the box office in 2023 is that higher budgets for films aren’t necessarily resulting in higher numbers at the box office. While some of these big-budget films are doing well at the box office, especially when compared to their competitors, the cost it took to make them means they aren’t considered successful. The L...
There have been many big movies flopping in 2023, but when looking at these films, few can be deemed as injustices. For example, The Little Mermaid is another live-action remake of an animated classic from the Disney Renaissance era which some may see as unnecessary, or at least not a necessity to see in theaters. Fast X is the 11th movie in the Fa...
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- Barbie. Warner Bros. | July 21. Domestic Total (2023): $636.2M. International Total (2023): $805.6M. Global Total (2023): $1.4 Billion. The whole world was in love with Barbie in 2023, with the Warner Bros.
- The Super Mario Bros. Movie. Domestic Total (2023): $574.9M. International Total (2023): $787M. Global Total (2023): $1.36 billion. is the second-highest-grossing film of 2023 on both the domestic and international charts, with the animated video game adaptation outperforming Barbie in several key international markets, including Mexico, France (where it ranked second, behind the December 2022 release Avatar: The Way of Water), and Japan—where it became the biggest Universal animation release of all time.
- Oppenheimer. Domestic Total (2023): $326M. International Total (2023): $625.2M. Global Total (2023): $952M. Barbie and The Super Mario Bros. Movie are the top two earners of the year, both domestically and globally; it’s only at spot number three that the two lists start to diverge, with Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer coming in at number three on the global list and number five domestically.
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Domestic Total (2023): $358.9M. International Total (2023): $486.5M. Global Total (2023): $845.5M. The final volume of James Gunn’s trilogy was the Marvel box office highlight of 2023, generating nearly $225M more internationally than Marvel Studios’ Q1 release, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which finished at $261.5M internationally and $476M global (and number ten on this list.)
- 'Barbie' Worldwide Box Office: $1,441,820,453. Released at a time when streaming services and post-pandemic hesitance put the movie theater in desperate need of affirmation, Greta Gerwig's Barbie popped up and took the world by storm.
- 'The Super Mario Bros. Movie' Worldwide Box Office: $1,361,367,353. Leaping over the ten-figure mark, The Super Mario Bros. Movie made up for the pitiful first attempt at adapting the video game back in 1993, the infamously bad Super Mario Bros.
- 'Oppenheimer' Worldwide Box Office: $952,037,935. A three-hour historical epic about physics only has so many ways to make money. The nearly billion-dollar triumph that was Oppenheimer proved that handing writer-director Christopher Nolan the reigns and dropping in explosive music throughout talkative scientific explanations were very helpful.
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Worldwide Box Office: $845,555,777. James Gunn's beloved franchise of loveable misfits has concluded its trilogy. Based on the box-office numbers, this third installment was a happy ending for both the Guardians and Disney.
Dec 18, 2023 · The total domestic box office gross for 2023 stands at $8.58 billion as of Dec. 17, Variety reported, and surpassing $9 billion could prove challenging because of the lack of surefire...
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