Actor
Christian BaleFollow
31 films•1987–2026•Drama · Action · Crime
Avg critics68%
Avg audience73%
Avg domestic$95.7M
Domestic
$2.87B
Lifetime
Worldwide
$5.84B
Lifetime
Avg opening
$26.2M
3-day
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 The Dark Knight | 2008 | $158.4M | $536.6M | 3.39x | $1.01B | A | 94% | #1 |
 The Dark Knight Rises | 2012 | $160.9M | $448.1M | 2.78x | $1.08B | A | 87% | #2 |
 Thor: Love and Thunder | 2022 | $144.2M | $343.3M | 2.40x | $760.9M | A | 64% | #8 |
 Batman Begins | 2005 | $48.7M | $205.3M | 4.22x | $356.8M | A | 85% | #8 |
 American Hustle | 2013 | $19.1M | $150.0M | 7.86x | $251.0M | B+ | 92% | #17 |
 Pocahontas | 1995 | $2.7M | $142.0M | 4.80x | $347.0M | — | 59% | — |
 Terminator Salvation | 2009 | $42.6M | $125.3M | 2.94x | $365.5M | A | 33% | #23 |
 Ford v Ferrari | 2019 | $31.5M | $117.6M | 3.73x | $226.3M | A+ | 92% | #22 |
 Public Enemies | 2009 | $25.3M | $97.1M | 3.84x | $214.0M | B | 68% | #33 |
 The Fighter | 2010 | $12.1M | $93.6M | 7.71x | $129.0M | A- | 91% | #35 |
 The Big Short | 2015 | $706K | $70.3M | 6.70x | $132.6M | A- | 88% | #43 |
 Shaft | 2000 | $21.7M | $70.3M | 3.24x | $107.0M | A- | 67% | #32 |
 Exodus: Gods and Kings | 2014 | $24.1M | $65.0M | 2.70x | $268.3M | — | 29% | — |
 3:10 to Yuma | 2007 | $14.0M | $53.6M | 3.82x | $71.2M | B | 89% | #47 |
 The Prestige | 2006 | $14.8M | $53.1M | 3.60x | $104.4M | — | 76% | — |
 Little Women | 1994 | $5.3M | $50.0M | 9.40x | — | — | 92% | — |
 Vice | 2018 | $7.8M | $47.8M | 6.20x | $70.9M | C+ | 64% | — |
 Reign of Fire | 2002 | $15.6M | $43.1M | 2.75x | $82.2M | — | 42% | — |
 Hostiles | 2017 | $23K | $29.8M | 2.90x | $37.0M | — | 71% | — |
 Captain Corelli's Mandolin | 2001 | $7.2M | $25.5M | 3.50x | $62.1M | — | 28% | — |
 Empire of the Sun | 1987 | $1.3M | $22.2M | 7.60x | — | — | 75% | — |
 American Psycho | 2000 | $5.0M | $15.1M | 3.00x | $34.3M | — | 69% | — |
 Amsterdam | 2022 | $6.4M | $14.9M | 2.30x | $29.4M | B | 60% | #49 |
 The Bride! | 2026 | $7.1M | $12.7M | 1.80x | $23.9M | C+ | 57% | — |
 The New World | 2005 | $20K | $12.7M | 3.20x | $26.2M | — | 63% | — |
 Out of the Furnace | 2013 | $5.2M | $11.3M | 2.20x | $15.4M | — | 53% | — |
 The Promise | 2016 | $4.1M | $8.2M | 2.00x | $10.6M | — | 51% | — |
 Rescue Dawn | 2007 | $110K | $5.5M | 49.8x | $7.0M | — | 90% | — |
 Equilibrium | 2002 | $542K | $1.2M | 2.20x | $5.3M | — | 40% | — |
 The Machinist | 2004 | $65K | $1.1M | 9.40x | $8.7M | — | 77% | — |
 The Pale Blue Eye | 2022 | — | — | — | — | — | 62% | — |
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
DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 1.3 years
Profitability
Return on budget
2.6x
$5.84B worldwide on $2.23B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs international split
Domestic $2.80BInternational $3.04B
Return by film
Worldwide ÷ budget0x2.5x breakeven6.3x
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#6Biggest July openingsThe Dark Knight Rises$160.9M#7Biggest July openingsThe Dark Knight$158.4M#8Biggest July openingsThor: Love and Thunder$144.2M#9Biggest superhero filmsThe Dark Knight$536.6M#12Biggest superhero filmsThe Dark Knight Rises$448.1M#15All-time PG-13 domesticThe Dark Knight$536.6M#19Biggest PG-13 openingsThe Dark Knight Rises$160.9M#40Biggest opening weekendsThor: Love and Thunder$144.2M
Top 8 of 15 placings across 7 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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