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Hollywood hits and flops, 2023

Every Hollywood film released in 2023 with a cost and a gross on record, graded on gross against cost six weeks after release. Blockbuster is three times its cost and up, hit is one and a half, average is one, and anything under one is a flop. 35 of the year's releases have both figures.

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#	Film	Cost	Took	Return	Verdict
1	Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey2023-01-26	$100K	$8M	77.2×	Blockbuster
2	Talk to Me2023-07-26	$5M	$92M	20.4×	Blockbuster
3	Sound of Freedom2023-07-03	$15M	$251M	17.3×	Blockbuster
4	The Super Mario Bros. Movie2023-04-05	$100M	$1.36B	13.6×	Blockbuster
5	Insidious: The Red Door2023-07-05	$16M	$189M	11.8×	Blockbuster
6	Oppenheimer2023-07-19	$100M	$952M	9.5×	Blockbuster
7	The Nun II2023-09-06	$39M	$270M	7.0×	Blockbuster
8	Scream VI2023-03-08	$33M	$169M	5.1×	Blockbuster
9	The Pope's Exorcist2023-04-05	$18M	$77M	4.3×	Blockbuster
10	Migration2023-12-06	$72M	$299M	4.1×	Blockbuster
11	Creed III2023-03-01	$75M	$275M	3.7×	Blockbuster
12	The Blackening2023-06-15	$5M	$19M	3.7×	Blockbuster
13	The Zone of Interest2023-12-15	$15M	$53M	3.5×	Blockbuster
14	The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes2023-11-15	$100M	$337M	3.4×	Blockbuster
15	Meg 2: The Trench2023-08-02	$129M	$399M	3.1×	Blockbuster
16	Thanksgiving2023-11-16	$15M	$47M	3.1×	Blockbuster
17	Plane2023-01-11	$25M	$75M	3.0×	Hit
18	Transformers: Rise of the Beasts2023-06-06	$195M	$441M	2.3×	Hit
19	Fast X2023-05-17	$340M	$705M	2.1×	Hit
20	The Little Mermaid2023-05-18	$297M	$570M	1.9×	Hit
21	Wish2023-11-13	$175M	$255M	1.5×	Average
22	The Flash2023-06-13	$220M	$271M	1.2×	Average
23	Shazam! Fury of the Gods2023-03-15	$110M	$134M	1.2×	Average
24	Magic Mike's Last Dance2023-02-09	$45M	$52M	1.2×	Average
25	Air2023-04-05	$80M	$90M	1.1×	Average
26	Infinity Pool2023-01-27	$5M	$5M	1.1×	Average
27	Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre2023-01-04	$50M	$49M	1.0×	Flop
28	Retribution2023-08-23	$20M	$19M	0.9×	Flop
29	The Last Voyage of the Demeter2023-08-09	$45M	$22M	0.5×	Flop
30	Guy Ritchie's The Covenant2023-04-19	$55M	$22M	0.4×	Flop
31	Beau Is Afraid2023-04-14	$35M	$12M	0.4×	Flop
32	Hypnotic2023-05-11	$70M	$16M	0.2×	Flop
33	Big George Foreman2023-04-27	$32M	$4M	0.1×	Flop
34	The Killer2023-10-25	$175M	$362K	0.0×	Flop
35	Maestro2023-11-22	$80M	$300K	0.0×	Flop

The method, in full

How a verdict is reached

Blockbuster: Gross of at least 3× cost and up what the film cost to make.
Hit: Gross of at least 1.5× what the film cost to make.
Average: Gross of at least 1× what the film cost to make.
Flop: Anything that did not return its cost. under 1×.

Budget and gross as reported on TMDB A film is graded 42 days after release, so a run still in cinemas is not called early, and a film with no budget on record cannot be graded at all.