Film Excess - Free Ukraine - Stop Putin - End the war NOW!!: 2023 in films

1/01/2024

2023 in films - according to Film Excess

The Top 6 of the Year

1. Killers of the Flower Moon - Martin Scorsese + Best American Movie of the Year + Best Epic of the Year + Best Oklahoma Movie of the Year + Best Shooting Star Actress of the Year: Lily Gladstone + Best True-Crime Movie of the Year + Most Expensive Flop of the Year: 137.52 mil. $ range + Most Undeserved Flop of the Year + Worst $ Return of the Year: 0.78 times the cost (shared with Underverden II)

2. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 - James Gunn + Best Action-Adventure of the Year + Best Villain of the Year: Chukwudi Iwuji as The High Evolutionary

3. Oppenheimer - Christopher Nolan + Best Biopic of the Year + Best $ Return of the Year: 9.52 times the cost + Best Mega-hit of the Year + Most Profitable Movie of the Year: 280.8 mil. $ range

4. Napoleon - Ridley Scott + Best Romance of the Year + Best War Movie of the Year

5. Asteroid City - Wes Anderson + Best Poster of the Year + Best Sci-fi Comedy of the Year

6. Meg 2: The Trench - Ben Wheatley + Best Shark Movie of the Year

The Bottom 3 of the Year

1. The Nun II - Michael Chaves + Most Undeserved Hit of the Year

2. Underverden II - Fenar Ahmad + Worst $ Return of the Year: 0.78 times the cost (shared with Killers of the Flower Moon)

3. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One - Christopher McQuarrie

[9 titles in total]

Notes:

With just a few titles reviewed during the year, this is still a strong first annual list in terms of quality, with Martin Scorsese's monumental true-crime epic Killers of the Flower Moon reigning supreme. James Gunn's thrilling, original Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 taking silver, and Christopher Nolan's massively successful nuclear biopic Oppenheimer bronze. The list goes on with Ridley Scott's thumping war biopic Napoleon, Wes Anderson's colorful, idiosyncratic Asteroid City and with Ben Wheatley's monster shark escapism The Meg 2: The Trench rounding off the list. The bottom list sees Michael Chaves' horrendous religious horror The Nun 2 take gold, with Fenar Ahmad's flawed Underverden II taking silver, and Christopher McQuarrie's overboard actioner Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One bronze.

The box office and in consequence cinemas have struggled in 2023 with audiences staying at home streaming first and foremost, and the commercial results are already in this update looking bleaker than the norm. Apple Studios roared into theaters with two huge prestige pictures (Killers of the Flower Moon and Napoleon), both later crowning their streaming service, but which, despite their high quality, failed to hit in cinemas. Another unusual big star in one of the year's big flops: Normal box office juggernaut Tom Cruise (Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One).

Later updates will include many more of the year's output.

Biggest flops of the year:

[The loss is based solely on the cost and box office earnings for the films. Marketing costs and additional revenue (home video, TV rights and other auxiliary profits) are not taken into account]

1. Killers of the Flower Moon - 137.52 mil. $ range

2. Napoleon - 120.56 mil. $ range

3. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 - 64 mil. $ range

4. Asteroid City - 3.48 mil. $ range

5. Underverden II - 3 mil. $ range

= Combined losses: 328.56 mil. $

Biggest hits of the year:

[The gain is based solely on the cost and box office earnings for the films. Marketing costs and additional revenue (home video, TV rights and other auxiliary profits) are not taken into account]

1. Oppenheimer - 280.8 mil. $ range

2. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 - 88.2 mil. $ range

3. The Nun II - 69.2 mil. $ range

4. The Meg 2: The Trench - 24 mil. $

= Combined profits: 462.2 mil. $

2023 titles currently on the watchlist:

Beau Is Afraid, The Last Voyage of the Demeter, A Storm Foretold, Plane, Superpower, Passages, You Hurt My Feelings, 20 Days in Mariupol, Jesus Revolution, The Holdovers, Barbie, No Hard Feelings, Slava Ukraini, Fool's Paradise, Monster, The Zone of Interest, About Dry Grasses, Wonka, Sound of Freedom, The Boy and the Heron, Saw X, The Promised Land, Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction, All of Us Strangers, Dream Scenario

Previous annual lists:

2022 in films - according to Film Excess

2021 in films - according to Film Excess

2020 in films - according to Film Excess

2019 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]

2019 in films - according to Film Excess
2018 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2018 in films - according to Film Excess
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What do you think of the 2023 lists?
Which 2023 films are your favorites and the bottom of the year in your opinion?
What important 2023 title/s is/are missing on the watch-list?

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Donald Sutherland has passed away

Born in Canada, Sutherland battled polio as a child. His first credit was in Suspense (1963, TV-series) and his first film was The Castle of the Living Dead (1964). Later credits in his remarkable career include The Saint (1965-66), The Dirty Dozen (1967), M*A*S*H (1970), Kelly's Heroes (1970), Klute (1971), Don't Look Now (1973), 1900 (1976), Casanova (1976), The Eagle Has Landed (1976), Ordinary People (1980), A Dry White Season (1989), JFK (1991), Outbreak (1995), Fallen (1998), Virus (1999), Fierce People (2005), Pride & Prejudice (2005), Lord of War (2005), The Hunger Games (2012), The Undoing (2020, miniseries) and many more. He passed away at age 88. R.I.P.

Roger Corman has passed away

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Corman had a sprawling, intellectually hungry life as a youth and young man before arriving with his first film in 1955, Five Guns West. He would follow that with titles such as Apache Woman, It Conquered the World, Attack of the Crab Monsters, Teenage Cave Man, A Bucket of Blood, House of Usher, The Little Shop of Horrors, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Intruder, The Raven, The Terror, The Masque of Red Death, The Tomb of Ligeia, The Wild Angels, The Trip, Bloody Mama and many more. As a producer he was behind almost 500 films. Arguably among the most important filmmakers of the 20th century, Corman passed away at age 98. R.I.P.

William Friedkin has died

Born in Chicago, Friedkin accrued TV credits prior to his advance to the big screen as the director of Good TImes (1967), The Birthday Party (1968), The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968) and The Boys in the Band (1970) before his major breakthrough, The French Connection (1971), for which he won his only Oscar. He followed it up with the even bigger smash, The Exorcist (1973), arguably the best horror film of all time, for which he was Oscar-nominated. Later credits include Sorcerer (1977), Cruising (1980), To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), Rampage (1987), Rules of Engagement (2000), Killer Joe (2011) and The Devil and Father Amorth (2017, documentary). Friedkin passed away at age 87. R.I.P.

Louise Fletcher has passed away

Born in Alabama to deaf parents, Fletcher got her first credits in late-1950s TV-series.She took a 10 year-long sabbatical to devote her time to motherhood after the release of A Gathering of Eagles, but then came back and soon saw her career's most important part, as Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), for which she won her sole Oscar. Later credits include Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), The Lucky Star (1980), Brainstorm (1983), Two Moon Junction (1988), Cruel Intentions (1999), A Perfect Man (2013) and many more. Fletcher passed away at age 88. R.I.P.

Jean-Luc Godard has passed away

Born in Paris, France, Godard lived much of his life in Switzerland. He wrote for French film criticism magazine Cahiers du Cinema and became foundational for the New French Wave that inspired new waves in scores of other countries across the world with his Breathless (1960). Later credits include A Woman Is A Woman (1961), Vivre Sa Vie (1962), Le Petit Soldat (1962), Contempt (1963), Alphaville (1965), Pierrot le Fou (1965), 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967), Weekend (1967), Every Man for Himself (1980), King Lear (1987), Century of Cinema (1995, documentary), Goodbye to Language (2014) and many more. Godard died of assisted suicide at age 91. R.I.P.

Wolfgang Petersen has died

James Caan has died

Caan was born the son of Jewish immigrants from Germany in New York. He got his start on TV in the early 1960s. His credits include El Dorado (1966), The Rain People (1969), Brian's Song (1971, TV movie), The Godfather (1972), - for which he earned his only Oscar nomination, - Slither (1973), The Gambler (1974), Funny Lady (1975), Rollerball (1975), Silent Movie (1976), Hide in Plain Sight (1980), - the only film he also directed, - Thief (1981), Misery (1990), Honeymoon in Vegas (1992), Bottle Rocket (1996), Eraser (1996), Dogville (2003), Elf (2003), Las Vegas (2003-07), Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) and many more. Caan passed away at age 82. R.I.P.

Jean-Louis Trintignant has died

Born in Vaucluse, France, Trintignant's theatrical debut as an actor was in If All the Guys in the World... (1955). Later credits include ...And God Created Woman (1956), The Seven Deadly Sins (1961), Inferno (1964), A Man and A Woman (1966), My Love, My Love (1967), A Man to Kill (1967), The Great Silence (1968), Z (1969), The Assassination (1972), Three Colors: Red (1994), Amour (2012), Happy End (2017) and many more. He also wrote and directed two films in the 1970s. Trintignant passed away at age 91. R.I.P.

Ray Liotta has died

Adopted from an orphenage at a young age, Liotta got hooked on acting in high school. He had various TV credits in the late 1970s and early 80s, with his film debut in The Lonely Lady (1983). Later credits include Something Wild (1986), Field of Dreams (1989), Goodfellas (1990), Cop Land (1997), Hannibal (2001), Blow (2001), Narc (2002), John Q (2002), Identity (2003), Observe and Report (2009), Youth in Revolt (2009), The Details (2011), Killing THem Softly (2012), The Place Beyond the Pines (2012), Shades of Blue (2016-18), The Simpsons (2018, TV-series), Marriage Story (2019), The Many Saints of Newark (2021), Black Bird (2022, TV-series) and many more. Liotta passed away at age 67 in his sleep while on production in the Dominican Republic. R.I.P.

Philip Baker Hall has died

Born in Ohio, Hall didn't start acting until he was 30. His long list of credits include Zabriskie Point (1970), Miami Vice (1987, TV-series), Midnight Run (1988), Ghostbusters II (1989), Cheers (1993, TV-series), Hard Eight (1996), The Rock (1996), Air Force One (1997), Boogie Nights (1997), Seinfeld (1991-98), Rush Hour (1998), The Insider (1999), Magnolia (1999), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Bruce Almighty (2003), Dogville (2003), The Zodiac (2005), Zodiac (2007), Curb Your Enthusiasm (2004-09), Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011), Modern Family (2011-12) and many more. Hall passed away at age 90. R.I.P.

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