Box office talk!

[Anders]

[Anders]

Worldwide box office total:

1 Barbie $1,441,820,453
12 Transformers: Rise of the Beasts $438,966,392
13 Meg 2: The Trench $395,000,317
14 Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny $383,963,057
18 The Flash $270,633,313
20 Wonka $254,867,717
23 Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves $208,177,026
24 The Marvels $205,070,829
26 Napoleon $198,680,761 (scheduled to pass 200 mill on Tuesday)
32 Killers of the Flower Moon $156,233,555
36 Shazam! Fury of the Gods $133,838,006
37 Blue Beetle $129,288,072
42 Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom $120,100,000
54 Godzilla Minus One $74,659,927
66 Asteroid City $53,847,125

Aquaman the most recent one. « To achieve financial viability, the movie is expected to exceed $400 million in global box office earnings.»

Obviously it has bigger numbers than a bunch of minor movies (even some of the best of the year), but the expectations are also a lot higher. Think passing Indiana Jones is going to be difficult. The Flash is probably a fair target, and it should easily pass $200 mill worldwide.

“Warner Bros.’ superhero crossover The Flash didn’t exactly speed off to the races, with a first place opening of $55.1M. That falls short of even the lowest end of Boxoffice PRO’s pre-release projection range: $60M to $80M.

It also opens below some other DC Extended Universe titles with which it was expected to perform comparably, or even exceed:

-41% below 2017’s Justice League, which also featured the Flash character ($93.8M)
-18% below 2018’s Aquaman ($67.8M)
-17% below 2022’s Black Adam ($67.0M)
At least it opened +2% above 2019’s Shazam! ($53.5M).

The Flash opened to $75.0M overseas and $139.0M globally.“

[Anders]

[Anders]

[Anders]

Wonka about to pass Indiana Jones 5, while Aquaman 2 has passed The Marvels, Shazam 2 and The Blue Beetle, and is about to pass The Flash.

[Anders]

[Anders]

[VinylGuy]

Do we know Wonka’ budget ?

[bada]

$125,000,000 (worldwide box office is 3.7 times production budget).

[bada]

That doesn't include marketing and the caveat that a budget is the money they plan to spend at the start of the process. The actual spend usually comes out years down the line.

[Anders]

Think Wonka is doing really well, and Aquaman too, is ending up delivering quite well.

[Anders]

[VinylGuy]

Kudos to everyone in Aquaman because Warner and Gunn really tried to hide this one

[The Argonaut]

Plus it's boring

[BurtReynolds]

WB is definitely not celebrating Aquaman's take.

[Anders]

[Anders]

[Anders]

Aquaman 2 is about to pass Indiana Jones 5.

[Anders]

2023 Worldwide Box Office

Rank Release Group Worldwide Domestic % Foreign %
1 Barbie $1,445,633,117
2 The Super Mario Bros. Movie $1,361,942,422
3 Oppenheimer $952,120,905
4 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 $845,555,777
5 Fast X $704,875,015
6 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse $690,615,475
7 The Little Mermaid $569,626,289
8 Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One $567,535,383
9 Elemental $496,382,801
10 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania $476,071,180
11 Wonka $473,113,857 (now actually $505.3m)
12 John Wick: Chapter 4 $440,146,694
13 Transformers: Rise of the Beasts $438,966,392
14 Meg 2: The Trench $397,700,317
15 Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny $383,963,057
16 Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom $340,613,347 (now actually $373.7m)
17 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes $331,644,530
18 Five Nights at Freddy's $289,361,620
19 Creed III $276,148,615
20 The Flash $271,333,313

[Anders]

2023 Worldwide Box Office

1 Barbie $1,445,638,421
2 The Super Mario Bros. Movie $1,361,949,854
3 Oppenheimer $953,038,430
4 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 $845,555,777
5 Fast X $704,875,015 $146,126,015 20.7%
6 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse $690,615,475
7 The Little Mermaid $569,626,289
8 Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One $567,535,383
9 Wonka $534,652,708
10 Elemental $496,444,308
11 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania $476,071,180
12 John Wick: Chapter 4 $440,146,694
13 Transformers: Rise of the Beasts $438,966,392
14 Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom $398,442,014
15 Meg 2: The Trench $397,700,317
16 Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny $383,963,057
17 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes $336,648,930
18 Five Nights at Freddy's $289,361,620
19 Creed III $276,148,615
20 The Flash $271,333,313

Wonka and Aquaman the final big 2023 movies still in the cinema. Not sure they will progress much more on the list though, but Aquaman will definitely pass $400 mill worldwide.