10 Biggest Movies of 2023 Ranked by Box Office Earnings Potential Disney , Marvel , DC , and several other big-budget studio films will likely earn billions of dollars collectively in 2023. 2022 was a bounce-back year for the box office after a historically low run in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Before the pandemic, the worldwide box office set a record with $42.5 billion in total. Led by blockbuster films like Avengers: Endgame , The Lion King , and Frozen 2, it was a pretty good year for Disney. 2019 produced nine $1 billion earners while 2021 has only had two ( Top: Gun Maverick and Jurassic World: Dominion ). Clearly, 2021 won't reach those global box office heights, but 2023 is gearing up to feature several massive releases to spark a comeback for movie theaters again. As the sleeping giant Avatar: The Way of Water will soon be awakened with the potential to be the #1 box office earner of 2022, it's time to look beyond the horizon. From a talking