Director
J.J. AbramsFollow
6 films•2006–2019•Action · Adventure · Sci-Fi
Avg critics79%
Avg audience83%
Avg domestic$366.5M
Domestic
$2.20B
Lifetime
Worldwide
$4.64B
Lifetime
Avg opening
$109.0M
3-day
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Star Wars: The Force Awakens | 2015 | $248.0M | $936.7M | 3.78x | $2.06B | A | 93% | #1 |
 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | 2019 | $177.4M | $515.2M | 2.90x | $1.07B | B+ | 51% | #3 |
 Star Trek | 2009 | $75.2M | $257.7M | 3.43x | $386.8M | A | 94% | #7 |
 Star Trek Into Darkness | 2013 | $70.2M | $228.8M | 3.26x | $467.4M | A | 84% | #11 |
 Mission: Impossible III | 2006 | $47.7M | $133.5M | 2.80x | $399.4M | A- | 73% | #14 |
 Super 8 | 2011 | $35.5M | $127.0M | 3.58x | $260.0M | B+ | 81% | #21 |
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$1B$2B
DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 2.6 years
Profitability
Return on budget
3.4x
$4.64B worldwide on $1.35B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs international split
Domestic $2.20BInternational $2.44B
Return by film
Worldwide ÷ budget0x2.5x breakeven5.2x
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#1Biggest second weekendsStar Wars: The Force Awakens$149.2M#1Biggest 3rd weekendsStar Wars: The Force Awakens$90.2M#1Biggest Christmas openingsStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker$177.4M#2Biggest domestic runsStar Wars: The Force Awakens$936.7M#4Biggest December openingsStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker$177.4M#12Biggest single daysStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker$89.6M
Top 6 of 22 placings across 15 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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All analysis
Week 31 · RecapBrand New Day takes the all-time record with $360M; The Odyssey holds at $51MJuly 31–August 2, 2026Week 33 · RecapBrand New Day passes Avatar on a $70M third weekend; two dino movies split $41.5MAugust 14–16, 2026
Week 34 · RecapBrand New Day closes in on #2 all-time; Odyssey beats The Dark Knight to take Nolan’s domestic record; Insidious opens to $25MAugust 21–23, 2026Comparisons
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Complete trilogyThe Star Wars Sequel TrilogyThe Force Awakens’ record launch and the decay curve that followed.
The all-time crownBrand New Day vs the top 3 all-timeA $360.1M opening that has now gone past the three biggest domestic runs before it — The Force Awakens’ $936.7M, Endgame’s $897.6M and No Way Home’s $814.8M — and sits at $955.2M.Battle for the all-time crownBrand New Day vs The Force AwakensThe biggest opening weekend ever against the biggest domestic run ever — Brand New Day’s $360.1M debut measured against The Force Awakens’ $936.7M final, day by day.
All-time recordsThe Force Awakens vs Endgame vs No Way Home vs AvatarThe four biggest domestic runs ever — $936.7M, $897.6M, $814.8M and $785.2M — raced day by day.