On Wednesday, Warner Bros.’ Barbie will become the highest-grossing movie at the 2023 domestic box office with north of $574.2M, overtaking Universal/Illumination Entertainment’s The Super Mario Bros Movie, whose stateside run finaled at that amount.
The last time Warner Bros. ruled with the top-grossing movie of the year was in 2011 with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II, which amassed $381M.


It remains to be seen if any other titles on the current theatrical release schedule including Warner’s own Wonka and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom and Disney/Marvel Studios’ The Marvels can best Barbie.

It took Super Mario Bros Movie 138 days to get to $574.2M, and it took last year’s top domestic champ Top Gun: Maverick from Paramount/Skydance 40 days to reach that point. It’s only taking Barbie 34 days. Through Monday, the Greta Gerwig-directed feature — the top-grossing pic ever from a female director — grossed $569.3M. Today, Barbie is on her way to minting $3M on what is a discount ticket day. Top Gun: Maverick took 47 days to reach $600M. Barbie beat Top Gun 2 to the $500M domestic threshold, reaching that benchmark in 22 days to the Tom Cruise sequel’s 30 days. It took Super Mario Bros 31 days to cross the half-billion mark in U.S./Canada.
In her fifth weekend, Barbie grossed $21M, besting the $18.55M fifth weekend take of Super Mario Bros — but not Top Gun 2, which did $29.6M at the same point in time. This weekend, in its sixth frame, Barbie is expected to gross $12M-$13M.