Barbie overtakes Super Mario Bros to be 2023's biggest box office hit

Barbie has officially go the year's biggest container bureau hit, aft the doll's big-screen net overtook the Super Mario Bros Movie's total.

The Barbie movie, which sees Margot Robbie's titular artifact swap her pinkish phantasy location for the existent world, has present made $1.38bn (£1.1bn) globally.

That has taken it past the $1.36bn taken by the Super Mario Bros Movie.

Barbie has besides helped the US summertime container bureau scope the $4bn (£3.2bn) people for the archetypal clip since the pandemic.

Analysts did not expect cinemas to scope that milestone, but the occurrence of Barbenheimer - Barbie and Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, which were released connected the aforesaid time successful July - propelled takings past past year's full of $3.4bn (£2.7bn).

Industry experts also predicted that the Super Mario Bros Movie would beryllium the biggest movie of 2023. But Barbie, directed by Greta Gerwig, has proved them incorrect connected that beforehand too.

The biggest films of 2023 truthful far

The Equalizer 3, starring Denzel Washington, proved to beryllium different summertime deed connected its merchandise this weekend, taking $34.5m (£27.3m) successful its archetypal 3 days astatine North American container offices.

However, determination are concerns successful Hollywood that determination whitethorn beryllium a drop-off for remainder of the twelvemonth aft films including Dune: Part II, Kraven the Hunter and the Ghostbusters: Afterlife sequel moved their merchandise dates to 2024, arsenic the ongoing Hollywood onslaught prevents actors from promoting workplace movies.