Last year was not a great year for the box office. Or at least for Disney and superheroes. But, thanks to ‘Super Mario Bros.’, ‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘M3GAN’, Universal Pictures became the highest-grossing studio in 2023. According to reports Variety, with 24 films, grossed $4.907 million in ticket sales worldwide. The victory is notable because it means that it is the first time since 2015 that Disney was not the global box office leader.
Disney fell to second place in terms of market share, since with its 17 new films, ‘Guardians of the Galaxy 3’, ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Doom’, and ‘The Little Mermaid’ among them, they grossed 4,827 million dollars worldwide. The difference of 80 million dollars is attributed to those seven films less than Universal, but the failure is relative, since Disney was the studio that placed the most titles in the top 10 this year, with four of the highest-grossing releases worldwide and three of the highest-grossing in the national market.
The decline, among many quotes, of Disney
But the important fact is that for the first time in a long time, Disney has not placed one on the podium of the three highest-grossing films: those positions belong to Barbie’ from Warner Bros. (1.4 billion dollars), ‘Super Mario Bros. ‘ from Universal ($1.3 billion) and ‘Oppenheimer’ ($950 million). It is also the first time since 2014, and this is the most significant considering the large budgets, which None of Disney’s films exceeds the $1 billion barrier.
Disney is an undisputed power at the box office, but the reality is that most of the studio’s bets for 2023 have not lived up to expectations. The biggest triumph ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’ ($845 million)which was more or less average for the franchise, but the rest of the sequels and remakes that performed poorly, such as ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’, ‘The Marvels’, and ‘The Haunted House’ for example , caused the studio to decline at the box office compared to Universal.
Guardians of the Galaxy 3
Although many of Disney’s middling victories could be considered successes for its rivals There is a problem in the continued interest of Marvel, cWhose brand depends on continuity. Additionally, Disney films are very expensive, typically having production budgets of between $200 and $250 million, so they have to clear a very high bar in terms of profitability. ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ was the tenth highest-grossing film of the year, with $476 million, but ended up losing money for the studio during its run in theaters.
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Therefore, although Universal also suffered some failures, none were as serious. The vampire comedy ‘Renfield’ only made $26 million worldwide, ‘Book Club: The Next Chapter’ didn’t make $30 million worldwide, and the animated ‘Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken’ barely made it. the 45 million. ‘Fast & Furious 10’ It grossed 704 million, enough to rank as the fifth highest-grossing film of the year, but it cost 340 million dollars and barely made a profit.
Warner Bros. has come in a distant third place, with $3.84 billion worldwide, but he has the hit of the year, ‘Barbie’, and ‘The Nun II’ and ‘Wonka’ have saved him from miscalculations with this year’s DC disaster. Sony and Paramount have not yet reported their final collections, but each of them would have earned $2 billion worldwide to complete the top five positions.
With ‘Spider-Man: Crossing the Multiverse’, the end of Denzel Washington’s trilogy ‘Equalizer 3’ and Ridley Scott’s ‘Napoleon’, among its proposals for 2023, Sony has a slight advantage over Paramount, whose main releases were ‘Mission: Impossible – Mortal Sentence, Part 1’, ‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’ has had mediocre results that have not been saved by either ‘PAW Patrol: The Super Movie’ or another ‘Transformers’. Despite this, the fact that auteur films like ‘Oppenheimer’ have triumphed gives new hope for an industry that needs to get out of the superhero dam.
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