Actor
Elijah WoodFollow
14 films•1992–2015•Drama · Adventure · Fantasy
Avg critics63%
Avg audience70%
Avg domestic$121.7M
Domestic
$1.70B
Lifetime
Worldwide
$4.25B
Lifetime
Avg opening
$24.7M
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 |
 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | 2001 | $47.2M | $325.7M | 6.64x | $902.0M | A- | 91% | #2 |
 Happy Feet | 2006 | $41.5M | $198.0M | 4.77x | $384.0M | A- | 76% | #7 |
 Deep Impact | 1998 | $41.2M | $140.5M | 3.40x | $349.5M | — | 45% | — |
 Happy Feet Two | 2011 | $21.2M | $64.0M | 3.01x | $159.0M | B+ | 45% | — |
 Forever Young | 1992 | $5.6M | $55.9M | 10.0x | $127.9M | A- | 54% | — |
 The Good Son | 1993 | $12.5M | $44.5M | 3.60x | — | — | 26% | — |
 The Faculty | 1998 | $11.6M | $40.3M | 3.50x | — | B | 57% | — |
 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | 2004 | $8.2M | $34.5M | 4.20x | $72.2M | — | 93% | — |
 9 | 2009 | $10.7M | $31.7M | 3.00x | $48.6M | — | 57% | — |
 The Last Witch Hunter | 2015 | $10.8M | $27.4M | 2.50x | $130.8M | — | 17% | — |
 The Ice Storm | 1997 | $75K | $8.0M | 10.2x | $16.0M | — | 86% | — |
 Green Street Hooligans | 2005 | $49K | $346K | 7.10x | $4.3M | — | 45% | — |
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
Forever Young1992The Good Son1993The Ice Storm1997Deep Impact1998The Faculty1998The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring2001The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers2002The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King2003Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind2004Green Street Hooligans2005Happy Feet200692009Happy Feet Two2011The Last Witch Hunter2015DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 1.8 years
Profitability
Return on budget
5.5x
$4.12B worldwide on $744.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs international split
Domestic $1.56BInternational $2.56B
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#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#7Biggest Christmas openingsThe Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring$47.2M#9Best multipliersThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King5.19x#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 7 of 8 placings across 5 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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