These are the highest-grossing movies of 2023 so far

After the downturn of the pandemic, blockbuster cinema has bounced back in a significant way in 2023.

As reported by Variety, the dual release of Barbie and Oppenheimer led to a sizeable uptick in UK box office numbers in July. Earlier this year, meanwhile, The Super Mario Bros. Movie had the most successful global opening ever for an animated film.

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At the time of writing (August 7), the video game adaptation is still the highest-grossing movie of the year, earning over $1.3billion at the global box office (via BoxOfficeMojo). This is followed by Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, which crossed the $1billion mark in August.

James Gunn’s Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 is in third place, earning over $823million globally.

You can check out the full top 10 highest-grossing movies of the year below.

1. The Super Mario Bros. Movie – $1,351,478,338
2. Barbie – $1,031,481,000
3. Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 – $845,303,497
4. Fast X – $704,709,660
5. Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse – $683,100,143
6. The Little Mermaid – $564,244,557
7. Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania – $476,071,180
8. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One – $452,650,787
9. Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts – $429,885,021
10. John Wick: Chapter 4 – $426,978,565

Directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic, The Super Mario Bros. Movie is a collaboration between Nintendo, Universal Pictures and Illumination. It’s the second adaptation of Mario on the big screen, following the 1993 live-action film Super Mario Bros. starring Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo.

Chris Pratt voices the lead plumber in the film, alongside Anya Taylor-Joy as Peach, Charlie Day as Luigi, Jack Black as Bowser, Keegan-Michael Key as Toad and Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong.

In a two-star review, NME wrote: “It’s faithful enough to tempt existing fans to the cinema, but too perfunctory to be pored over. Is the Mario movie super? To paraphrase one of the title character’s catchphrases, it’s-a mediocre.”

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