Thats close to -2% off from the $1.91 billion reached over the same frame last year.
All these figures come from Comscore.
Summer 2020 for the May 1-July 2 period only grossed $47.3M.

From left: Summer 2023’s top 3 movies to date: ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,’ ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ and ‘The Little Mermaid’Everett Collection
Thats more than the combined $620M that Universal and Sony have pulled in for the beach season.
Overall, 2023 is 18% ahead of 2022 and 21% behind 2019.
)Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

3(Dis) $354.8M
2.
)Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse(Sony) $339.8M
3.
)TheLittle Mermaid(Dis) $281M
4.
)Fast X(Uni) $145.4M
5.
)Transformers: Rise of the Beasts(Par) $136.1M
6.
)The Flash(WB) $99.2M
7.
)Elemental(Dis) $88.7M
8.
)Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny(Dis) $60M
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