Actor & Director
Andy SerkisFollow
14 films•2 as director•2002–2026•Adventure · Drama · Action
Avg critics72%
Avg audience76%
Avg domestic$142.6M
Domestic
$2.00B
Lifetime
Worldwide
$5.61B
Lifetime
Avg opening
$39.1M
3-day
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 2003 | $72.6M | $383.4M | 5.28x | $1.13B | A+ | 94% | #1 |
 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | 2002 | $62.0M | $349.7M | 5.64x | $926.8M | A | 95% | #2 |
 King Kong | 2005 | $50.1M | $218.0M | 4.35x | $557.0M | A- | 84% | #5 |
 Venom: Let There Be Carnage | 2021 | $90.1M | $213.6M | 2.40x | $501.5M | B+ | 67% | #3 |
 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | 2014 | $72.6M | $208.5M | 2.87x | $710.6M | A | 91% | #11 |
 Rise of the Planet of the Apes | 2011 | $54.8M | $176.8M | 3.23x | $471.0M | A- | 82% | #11 |
 War for the Planet of the Apes | 2017 | $56.3M | $146.9M | 2.61x | $489.6M | A | 93% | #22 |
 The Adventures of Tintin | 2011 | $9.7M | $77.6M | 7.98x | $374.0M | A- | 75% | #43 |
 Flushed Away | 2006 | $18.8M | $64.7M | 3.44x | $178.0M | B+ | 72% | #41 |
 13 Going on 30 | 2004 | $21.1M | $57.1M | 2.70x | $97.7M | — | 65% | — |
 Young Washington | 2026 | $19.4M | $47.1M | 2.40x | $47.1M | A | 59% | #34 |
 Long Shot | 2019 | $9.7M | $30.3M | 3.10x | $53.6M | — | 0% | — |
 Inkheart | 2009 | $7.6M | $17.3M | 2.30x | $66.7M | — | 38% | — |
 Animal Farm | 2026 | $3.3M | $5.5M | 1.70x | $5.5M | C- | 24% | #85 |
Click any column to sort. Yearly rank is the film’s place on its release year’s domestic chart; a film outside that year’s top 50 shows a dash.
Film by film
0$500M$1B
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers2002The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King200313 Going on 302004King Kong2005Flushed Away2006Inkheart2009Rise of the Planet of the Apes2011The Adventures of Tintin2011Dawn of the Planet of the Apes2014War for the Planet of the Apes2017Long Shot2019Venom: Let There Be Carnage2021Animal Farm2026Young Washington2026DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 1.8 years
Profitability
Return on budget
4.1x
$5.60B worldwide on $1.36B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs international split
Domestic $1.99BInternational $3.61B
Return by film
Worldwide ÷ budget0x2.5x breakeven12.0x
Budgets are reported production costs and exclude marketing, so this is a gross-to-budget ratio rather than studio profit. Films with no reported budget, and streaming releases with no real theatrical run, are left out of this section entirely, including from the totals, rather than counted as zero.
Records held
All records#3Biggest October openingsVenom: Let There Be Carnage$90.0M#4Best second-weekend holds ($50M+ openers)The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers−21.2%#6Best multipliersThe Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers5.64x#9Best multipliersThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King5.19x#9Biggest August openingsRise of the Planet of the Apes$54.8M#12Biggest December openingsThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King$72.6M#17Biggest December openingsThe Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers$62.0M#17Best second-weekend holds ($50M+ openers)The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King−30.3%
Top 8 of 9 placings across 6 all-time charts. Where a film places on the same chart in consecutive weekends, only its best placing is shown.
What’s next
Full scheduleNo upcoming movies announced yet.
Connected
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
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