Barbie soars past The Super Mario Bros. Movie to become the highest-grossing film for 2023 in North America
- Barbie has now grossed $575.4M in North America
- It passed Mario’s impressive $574M domestic haul this week
- The Margot Robbie comedy is also on track to beat Mario’s $1.35B global grosses
Barbie has reached another milestone, becoming the top-grossing film in North America for the year so far.
The Margot Robbie–starring comedy has currently grossed around $575.4 million, putting it just past The Super Mario Bros. Movie’s $574 million domestic gross, according to Variety.
The news of the Greta Gerwig–directed film’s runaway success comes after it had already strutted past the $1 billion mark at he global box office.
The film will have a chance to earn even more after Warner Bros. announced on Wednesday that Barbie would be getting a chance to play in IMAX theaters for one week in North America with additional post-credits footage added.
The top global grosses of the year are also within reaching, as The Super Mario Bros. movie has only earned slightly more than Barbie in other international markets.
Top of the pack: Barbie has reached another milestone, becoming the top-grossing film in North America for the year so far
Passed over: The Margot Robbie–starring comedy has currently grossed around $575.4 million, putting it just past The Super Mario Bros. Movie’s $574 million domestic gross
So far, Barbie has earned around $1.3 billion in all markets across the globe, while Mario is ahead with $1.35 billion.
The doll-inspired movie, which costars Ryan Gosling in a critically acclaimed performance as Ken, is expected to soon steal the global top spot from Mario as well.
Variety notes that the two movies are the only films of the year so far to gross more than $1 billion worldwide.
More surprising is that neither film is a superhero film, as are four of the ten highest-grossing films of all time, according to Box Office Mojo.
Cruising ahead: Barbie currently has $1.3 billion at the global box office, and its expected to soon surpass The Super Mario Bros. Movie’s $1.3 billion global haul