What is the highest-grossing film of 2023? The year’s biggest box office hits
The year is almost over, so we are taking a look at the movies that performed the best at the box office. Here are the films that became the greatest hits.
![El 2023 está por terminar, por lo que hacemos un recuento de las películas más taquilleras del año. Aquí todos los grandes éxitos.](https://img.asmedia.epimg.net/resizer/v2/P5LTPPOHFTRWCPNFG7ZSR73RCQ.jpg?auth=3181c14c6e3f62888f1717096b78007cd056b972fcea0f11b335a1c6de15d0f1&width=360&height=203&focal=2516%2C1006)
After several difficult years for the film industry due to the covid-19 pandemic, the box office has slowly been recovering. This turned out to be a banner year for movies, with two of them surpassing the billion-dollar barrier. The next six on the list of highest-grossing films exceeded $500 million.
Barbie, the highest-grossing film of 2023
In July, the long-awaited film Barbie was released- the pink-colored live-action movie of the iconic Mattel doll. The film began to raise expectations after the release of the first trailer, the cast, as well as the marketing campaign- and it absolutely delivered.
The film, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, has a rating of 80 on the review website Metacritic with 67 reviews by critics, while it registered a rating of 88% on Rotten Tomatoes.
According to Box Office Mojo, Barbie grossed $636,202,492 domestically, becoming the highest-earning film of the year in the US. The movie has also reached number 11 on top lifetime grosses domestically.
Barbie was an international success as well, raking in a total of $1,441,802,492 worldwide, lifting it to the number one spot in earnings globally.
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The highest-grossing films in the United States in 2023
Besides Barbie, The Super Mario Bros. Movie was the only other film that broke the $500 million mark in the United States box office. According to Box Office Mojo, this movie released in April made $574,934,330 in the US. The domestic top ten is completed by the following
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: $381,311,319
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3: $358,995,815
- Oppenheimer: $325,389,295
- The Little Mermaid: $298,172,056
- Avatar: The Way of Water: $283,067,859
- Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania: $214,506,909
- John Wick: Chapter 4: $187,131,806
- Sound of Freedom: $184,174,633
The highest grossing films worldwide in 2023
Barbie and The Super Mario Bros. Movie have been the only two movies to surpass the billion-dollar threshold this year, with worldwide box office earnings of of $1,440,607,560 and $1,362,962,157, respectively.
The third highest-grossing film internationally in 2023 is Oppenheimer, with $953,325,957 million in earnings worldwide. The rest of the ten films with the most box office sales this year include the following:
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3: $845,468,744
- Fast X: $714,414,576
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: $682,977,332
- The Little Mermaid: $568,345,048
- Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One: $566,325,939
- Elemental: $495,947,021
- Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania: $476,071,180