Summer movie winners and losers

The summer season produced surprise wins for Barbie and Oppenheimer but poor results for Mission: Impossible 7 and Indiana Jones V


GLOBAL BOX OFFICE TAKINGS, SUMMER 2023 (May 5-Sep 4, in season releases only, $ millions)

Movie						U.S. 	Rest of world	Total
Barbie						620.72	783.50		1,404.22
Oppenheimer					315.50 	575.70		891.21
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3			359.00 	486.56 		845.56
Fast X						145.96	558.75    	704.71
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse		381.31 	308.36 		689.66
The Little Mermaid				298.17 	271.37 		569.54
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One	171.48	392.30  	563.79
Elemental					154.19	330.01  	484.20
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts		157.07	281.90  	438.97
Meg 2: The Trench				80.81	305.20  	386.01
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny		174.46 	208.21 		382.67


Underwhelming earnings from Mission: Impossible 7 and Indy V are likely linked to phenomenal impact of “Barbenheimer” – top two movies took combined gross of $2.3 billion in cinemas
 

Figures rounded


Sources: BoxOfficeMojo, Guardian  
Pictures: Studio handouts 
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