Biggest Box Office Hits Of 2023

2023 was initially shaping up to be a year of incredibly embarrassing big budget studio bombs. And it was. But also there was a healthy amount of wins spanning all genres including Barbie, John Wick Chapter 4, a bunch of mid budget horror movies and more. Here we break down the ten biggest along with a few bonus extras. Thanks for watching and be sure to come back for our Biggest Bombs of 2023 video!



Time Codes
1:38 Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts
2:48 The Meg 2: The Trench
4:16 Elemental
5:25 Five Nights At Freddy's
6:22 John Wick: Chapter 4
7:30 Spider-Man: Across The Spider0Verse
8:47 Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3
10:21 Oppenheimer
11:59 Barbie
12:53 Honorable Mentions! (Godzilla Minus One, Sound Of Freedom etc)
15:30 The Super Mario Bros. Movie







#2022 #Avatar #TopGunMaverick #JurassicWorld

[mcollingwood]

Oppenheimer doing really well has robbed us of at least 5 minutes of jokes in the 2023 bombs video

[hada__]

Hearing Mason say the words “Skibidi toilet” took about 15 years off my life span

[zappidos]

Looks like two of the most successful movies this year both featured Chris Pratt and 'No sleep till Brooklyn' from the Beasty Boys. I hope studios will learn from this and put these things in every movie going forward

[stevenlannister]

So movies made more money when they were left in theatres for longer? I wonder if Zaslav or Maso's Dad have heard of this amazing news.

[storminmormn]

I love when the editing mimics James and Maso’s arguments. It almost looks as if it were a bad lip reading.

It’s been amazing for years honestly, Keep it up!

[joek]

That little vignette of Oppenheimer. That's why I come here. The way that was edited around "YOURE A COMMUNIST!!!" Holy cow.

[imlando]

As someone that works in animation, I was pleasantly surprised to see a short clip of Ruby Gillman in this video, despite how poorly it did financially. It was my first animated movie credit 🥰 ...and then you mentioned how you refuse to watch Trolls 3, my second animated credit. I guess it evens out.

[Sovnarok]

Damn such a shame Dungeons & Dragons didn’t perform that well. One of the best movies that released this year imo.

[wideface]

These videos are edited beautifully. No adhd mr beast type stuff. But very thoughtful visual gags and aid that make what would be an audio only piece of content into a perfectly watchable video. Excellent work 👏

[UROCYON]

The editing moment at 10:30.5 was inspired. Both shots were important for both Oppenheimer and Barbie

[not-an-astrnaut]

I watched a chunk of these in theatres multiple times. You're welcome Hollywood.

[null]

There are a lot of lessons to be learned. While we haven't watched the Bombs video yet, I feel confident in saying, the biggest factor in the profitability of the major movies is going to be budget. This is no shock, but Disney in particular doesn't seem to understand this. Most of the movies on this list averaged about $100M.

If you start out with the cast costing $100M like the Disney movies do, you're already in the hole before production and marketing. If your movie doesn't make $1B, it's a loser. Disney hasn't adapted to the realities of the current cinema market.

I'll also add, that it's pretty obvious from this list that if you try and put in the effort, you can make a decent, profitable movie for $100M.

[TheDudeDiary]

Mason’s rant at the beginning 🤣🤣🤣🤣 “JUST SHUT UP!”

[jfd]

I feel like another great end of year video that you could do is a tier list of all the "best movie ever" and "worst movie ever" from throughout the year.

[theMitchBau]

That summary of Oppenheimer was hilarious, well done gents

[SirAsdf]

2023 is going to go down as the year where the "infinite growth" take on filmmaking [i.e., releasing 30 new entries into a major IP, putting the bare minimum amount of effort into the story, and expecting everyone to see it] really fell off a cliff.

[mattblack]

My biggest hit this year was discovering this channel!

[DrRipper]

You guys riffing on Oppenheimer in this video was the best thing to come out of the year

[kakarotwolf]

Mason just telling everyone to shut up is what I'm here for 😂

[averyhinks]

I hope this is finally the year that studios learned their movies will do better if they aren’t garbage.