Actor
Eddie MurphyFollow
29 films•1 also directed•1982–2011•Comedy · Action · Crime
Avg critics50%
Avg audience56%
Avg domestic$124.3M
Domestic
$3.61B
Lifetime
Worldwide
$6.83B
Lifetime
Avg opening
$28.7M
3-day
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Shrek 2 | 2004 | $108.0M | $439.8M | 4.07x | $933.8M | A | 89% | #1 |
 Shrek the Third | 2007 | $122.0M | $322.7M | 2.65x | $807.3M | B+ | 41% | #2 |
 Shrek | 2001 | $42.3M | $270.2M | 6.40x | $494.3M | A | 88% | #3 |
 Shrek Forever After | 2010 | $70.8M | $238.7M | 3.37x | $756.2M | A | 58% | #8 |
 Beverly Hills Cop | 1984 | $15.2M | $234.8M | 15.4x | $316.3M | — | 83% | — |
 Beverly Hills Cop II | 1987 | $26.3M | $153.7M | 5.80x | $300.0M | — | 48% | — |
 Dr. Dolittle | 1998 | $29.0M | $144.2M | 5.00x | $294.2M | — | 44% | — |
 The Nutty Professor | 1996 | $25.4M | $128.8M | 5.10x | $273.8M | — | 64% | — |
 Coming to America | 1988 | $21.4M | $128.2M | 6.00x | $288.8M | — | 71% | — |
 Nutty Professor II: The Klumps | 2000 | $42.5M | $123.0M | 2.90x | $166.0M | A- | 27% | #15 |
 Mulan | 1998 | $22.7M | $118.0M | 5.18x | $304.0M | A+ | 91% | — |
 Dr. Dolittle 2 | 2001 | $25.0M | $113.0M | 4.51x | $176.0M | B+ | 41% | #17 |
 Daddy Day Care | 2003 | $27.6M | $104.0M | 3.78x | $164.0M | A- | 28% | #27 |
 Dreamgirls | 2006 | $8.4M | $103.0M | 12.4x | $155.0M | A | 79% | #19 |
 Norbit | 2007 | $34.2M | $95.7M | 2.80x | $160.0M | B | 9% | #30 |
 Trading Places | 1983 | $7.3M | $90.4M | 12.3x | $90.4M | — | 87% | — |
 Another 48 Hrs. | 1990 | $19.5M | $80.0M | 4.10x | $152.7M | — | 19% | — |
 The Golden Child | 1986 | $11.5M | $79.8M | 6.90x | — | B | 21% | — |
 Tower Heist | 2011 | $24.0M | $78.0M | 3.25x | $153.0M | B | 67% | #42 |
 48 Hrs. | 1982 | $4.4M | $75.9M | 17.4x | — | — | 92% | — |
 The Haunted Mansion | 2003 | $24.3M | $75.8M | 3.12x | $182.0M | B | 14% | #39 |
 Boomerang | 1992 | $13.6M | $70.1M | 5.10x | $131.1M | A- | 48% | — |
 Bowfinger | 1999 | $18.1M | $66.5M | 3.70x | $98.7M | B- | 83% | — |
 Life | 1999 | $20.4M | $64.1M | 3.10x | $73.5M | — | 53% | — |
 Harlem Nights | 1989 | $16.1M | $60.9M | 3.80x | $95.9M | — | 28% | — |
 Beverly Hills Cop III | 1994 | $12.4M | $42.6M | 3.40x | $119.2M | — | 11% | — |
 Showtime | 2002 | $15.0M | $37.9M | 2.50x | $78.9M | — | 25% | — |
 I Spy | 2002 | $12.8M | $33.6M | 2.60x | $60.3M | — | 15% | — |
 Metro | 1997 | $11.4M | $32.0M | 2.80x | — | — | 17% | — |
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
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DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 1.0 years
Profitability
Return on budget
3.7x
$6.29B worldwide on $1.71B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs international split
Domestic $3.12BInternational $3.17B
Return by film
Worldwide ÷ budget0x2.5x breakeven21.1x
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#2Most weekends in the top 10Beverly Hills Cop28 weekends#3Most weeks at #1Beverly Hills Cop14 weeks#4Best second-weekend holds ($100M+ openers)Shrek 2−33.2%#8Best second-weekend holds ($20M+ openers)The Nutty Professor+1.6%#8Biggest animated filmsShrek 2$439.8M#9Biggest animated openingsShrek the Third$121.6M#10Best second-weekend holds ($20M+ openers)Shrek+0.3%#11Longest runs of $1M+ daysShrek 2—#12Biggest May openingsShrek the Third$121.6M#14Biggest PG openingsShrek the Third$121.6M
Top 10 of 18 placings across 13 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.
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Series
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