Film and series trends 2023
Not even “Avatar” stops “Barbenheimer”
The “Barbenheimer” stars: Ryan Gosling, Margot Robbie, Cillian Murphy and Florence Pugh (from left to right).
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“Barbenheimer” was the blockbuster theme of the summer. “Oppenheimer” and “Barbie” also lead Google’s 2023 annual review.
Two of the most successful films of the year also lead the list of films in the annual review in 2023 Google: “Oppenheimer” and Barbie”. Unsurprising for cinema fans, the duo, which opened in cinemas at the same time in the summer, was even nicknamed “Barbenheimer”. In addition to the Hollywood double strike, the two productions were dominated When it comes to film, they are the entertainment headlines and take first place (“Oppenheimer”) and second place (“Barbie”) of the films for which search interest has increased the most compared to the previous year.
The cinema trends: sci-fi, action and dramas
We continue in third place with the sci-fi spectacle “Avatar: The Way of Water” by James Cameron (69), which will be published at the end of 2022. This means that only absolute box office hits are on the podium. According to “Box Office Mojo” “Barbie” was the frontrunner in ticket sales with Margot Robbie (33), Ryan Gosling (43) and more than 1.4 billion dollars. “Oppenheimer” with Cillian Murphy (47) and Florence Pugh (27) brings in just over $950 million at the box office.
Keanu Reeves’ (59) action board “John Wick: Chapter 4” ends up in fourth place in the Google comparison, the German Oscar success “Nothing New in the West” comes in fifth place and “Sun and Concrete”, the film adaptation of Felix Lobrecht’s (34) bestseller of the same name, on the six. The top ten complete – in this order – “Creed III – Rocky’s Legacy”, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”, “Fast & Furious 10” and “Luise”.
ZDF and Netflix have the biggest series successes
Meanwhile, the Second German Television, together with Netflix, dominates the series list in Google Trends. The ZDF success “Yesterday we were still children” with Julia Beautx (24) not only achieved dream numbers in the ZDF media library, but also topped the listing on Eins. In second place is the Netflix megahit “Wednesday,” which established Jenna Ortega (21) as a fixture in Hollywood in 2022.
Third place goes to “One Piece,” a long-running manga and anime series that got a live-action series from Netflix in the summer. In fourth place is ZDF again with “Der Schwarm”, while the Netflix production “Ginny & Georgia” is in fifth place. “The Last of Us”, the HBO series based on the 2013 video game hit of the same name, secured sixth place. The remaining places go to Netflix again with “The Witcher” (seven), “Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story” (eight), “Outer Banks” (nine) and “Liebes Kind” (ten).
The Google annual review determines the search trends of the year and shows a particularly strong increase in search interest during a certain period in different categories compared to the previous year.