Mario and Luigi in The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Photo by Universal Pictures)
[Box office figures as of 5/24/2023]
While Avengers: Endgame and Avatar recently duked it out for bragging rights as the all-time highest-grossing movie, 2021 surprised everyone — to an extent — with the success of Spider-Man: No Way Home, which blew everyone away, setting new records and entertaining fans all over the world even as the COVID-19 pandemic continued to wreak havoc on the industry. With No Way Home landing at No. 6 and Disney’s absorption of what used to be 21st Century Fox, Disney now occupies seven of the 10 top box office rankings of all time worldwide (eight, if you count its joint ownership of Titanic with Paramount).
But even after the release of would-be juggernauts like The Batman, Jurassic World Dominion, The Batman, and a pair of Marvel movies in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Thor: Love and Thunder, only one film has managed to crack this list in 2022, and boy was it a big one. Tom Cruise suited up again to play ace pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in Joseph Kosinski’s three-and-a-half-decades-later sequel Top Gun: Maverick and delivered what was easily the biggest movie of the summer (and probably the entire year), landing at N0. 13 in the worldwide box office rankings. Who would have thought?
In 2023, The Super Mario Bros. Movie surprised everyone by jolting into the top half of this list in its first six weeks of release. Beyond that, the year does not have a lot of contenders to crack the billion club. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is likely to come up short. Can the farewell of Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny go where the archaeologist has never gone before — without an inflation calculator that is? Can Tom Cruise finally get a Mission: Impossible into the club it deserves? After that, there are no guarantees and we likely won’t need to reconvene until 2024.
For the list below, we’ve included global box office performance, as well as domestic, and release date. We included dollars earned in re-releases, and in each of our descriptions, we look at where the film stood record-wise at the time of its run, and dive into things like critical and audience reception. We’ll be here to track the progress of new blockbusters and regularly update this list of top box office performers. So keep your eyes here, and check in with our weekly weekend box office wrap-ups.
1. $2.924 Billion
2. $2.799 Billion
3. $2.320 Billion
4. $2.265 Billion
5. $2.071 Billion
6. $2.052 Billion
7. $1.922Billion
8. $1.672 Billion
9. $1.663 Billion
10. $1.521 Billion
11. $1.515 Billion
12. $1.494 Billion
13. $1.454 Billion
14. $1.405 Billion
15. $1.350 Billion
16. $1.342 Billion
17. $1.334 Billion
18. $1.311 Billion
19. $1.285 Billion
20. $1.274 Billion
21. $1.256 Billion
22. $1.243 Billion
23. $1.236 Billion
24. $1.215 Billion
25. $1.159 Billion
26. $1.155 Billion
27. $1.149 Billion
28. $1.148 Billion
29. $1.142 Billion
30. $1.132 Billion
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33. $1.110 Billion
34. $1.104 Billion
35. $1.081 Billion
36. $1.077 Billion
37. $1.074 Billion
38. $1.073 Billion
39. $1.067 Billion
40. $1.066 Billion
41. $1.059 Billion
42. $1.051 Billion
43. $1.047 Billion
44. $1.035 Billion
45. $1.029 Billion
46. $1.027 Billion
47. $1.026 Billion
48. $1.026 Billion
49. $1.023 Billion
50. $1.017 Billion
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