Red Mosquito

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.“

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.

Do we know Wonka’ budget ?

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

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.

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

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

Plus it's boring

WB is definitely not celebrating Aquaman's take.

Aquaman 2 is about to pass Indiana Jones 5.

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

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.