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2023 in film is an overview of events, including award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country- and genre-specific lists of films released, and notable deaths. This year, Walt Disney Studios and Warner Bros. celebrate their 100th anniversaries.

Highest-grossing films

† Indicates films playing in theatres in the week commencing 20 December 2024.

Box-office records

• The Super Mario Bros. Movie became the first film based on a video game, the eleventh animated film, and the 52nd film overall, to gross $1 billion worldwide. It set a number of other box office records:
  • It became Illumination's highest-grossing film, surpassing Minions (2015).
  • It surpassed 2019's Frozen II as having the highest-grossing opening worldwide for an animated film, grossing $375.6 million.
  • It achieved the highest-grossing opening for a video game adaptation worldwide, surpassing 2019’s Detective Pikachu.
  • The film achieved the second-highest-grossing opening weekend in the US and Canada for an animated film behind Incredibles 2 (2018), earning $146 million in a 3-day frame and $204 million in a 5-day frame over Easter weekend.
  • It set the record for the biggest five-day opening weekend (for films opening on Wednesday) in North America, surpassing Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009).
  • It set the record for Illumination's biggest opening, surpassing Despicable Me 2 (2013).
  • It became the highest-grossing video game film of all time, surpassing Warcraft (2016) in nine days by April 13.
  • It became the highest-grossing animated film and the first to gross $1 billion since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2019, surpassing Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022). It also became the last film to gross $1 billion during the COVID-19 pandemic, after the pandemic's status as a PHEIC officially ended in May 2023.
  • In Japan, its opening weekend gross of $14.3 million became the highest for a Hollywood animated film, as well as the highest for a film from Universal, surpassing Jurassic World Dominion (2022).
  • In Mexico, it became the highest-grossing film of all time with $82.4 million, surpassing Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) which made $81.16 million.
  • It became the highest-grossing non-Disney animated film of all time, surpassing Minions (2015).
• The Marvel Cinematic Universe became the first film franchise to gross $29 billion with the releases of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.
• The Fast & Furious franchise became the seventh film franchise to gross $7 billion with the release of Fast X.
• The Spider-Man franchise became the third film franchise to gross $10 billion with the release of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.
  • It became the highest-grossing animated film distributed by Sony Pictures, surpassing Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation.
  • Across the Spider-Verse also became Sony Pictures Animation's highest-grossing film, surpassing The Smurfs (2011).
• Barbie had the highest grossing opening weekend for a film that was not a sequel, remake, or superhero property, grossing $162 million domestically.
  • Barbie also had the largest opening weekend since Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
  • Barbie was also the largest opening weekend for a solo female directed film.
• Oppenheimer has the highest grossing opening weekend for an R-rated film since the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Oppenheimer also has highest grossing weekend for a Christopher Nolan film that is not part of The Dark Knight trilogy.
• The Mission: Impossible franchise became the eighteenth film franchise to gross $4 billion with the release of Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One.
• With the releases of Shazam: Fury of the Gods and The Flash, the DC Extended Universe has achieved a record-breaking six consecutive box office bombs, in addition to Birds of Prey (2020), Wonder Woman 1984 (2020), The Suicide Squad (2021), and Black Adam (2022).
• In 2023, an abnormal amount of blockbuster movies, including Fast X, The Little Mermaid, The Flash, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, and Shazam: Fury of the Gods, underperformed at the box office, leading to the coining of the term “flopbuster”.

Events

• May 2 – The Writers Guild of America (WGA) commences a strike against film and television studios, its first labor stoppage since 2007 and the largest production stoppage for the American entertainment industry since 2020, after the union and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers failed to agree on a new contract by the WGA's May 1 renewal deadline. Other writers unions such as the Writers' Guild of Great Britain, Australian Writers' Guild, Writers Guild of Canada have announced their support for the strike and instructed their members to refrain from working on American projects during the duration of the strike.
• July 14 – SAG-AFTRA commences a strike against film and television studios, after the union and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers failed to agree on a new contract after their previous agreement expired on June 30. This marks the first time that actors have initiated a labor dispute since the 1980 actors strike. With the concurrent Writers Guild of America strike, this is also the first time that actors and writers have walked out simultaneously since 1960. Film projects produced by these American studios but made outside the U.S. may also be affected by the strike. However, actors represented by another union, such as Equity in the UK, may instead be required to continue working on projects.

Scheduled award ceremonies

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Film festivals

2023 films

By country/region

• List of American films of 2023
• List of Australian films of 2023
• List of Bangladeshi films of 2023
• List of British films of 2023
• List of Canadian films of 2023
• List of French films of 2023
• List of German films of 2023
• List of Hong Kong films of 2023
• List of Indian films of 2023
• List of Japanese films of 2023
• List of Mexican films of 2023
• List of Pakistani films of 2023
• List of Philippine films of 2023
• List of Russian films of 2023
• List of South Korean films of 2023
• List of Spanish films of 2023
• List of Yemeni films of 2023

By genre/medium

• List of action films of 2023
• List of animated feature films of 2023
• List of avant-garde films of 2023
• List of crime films of 2023
• List of comedy films of 2023
• List of drama films of 2023
• List of horror films of 2023
• List of science fiction films of 2023
• List of thriller films of 2023

Deaths

Notes

1. The day he went missing. It is unknown if he died on that day.
2. The day she was found dead. It is unknown if she died on that day.

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External links

• List of 2023 films at IMDb
• 2023 Domestic Grosses at Box Office Mojo
• List of 2023 deaths at IMDb
• List of 2023 births at IMDb

• Film

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