Director
James CameronFollow
10 films•1984–2026•Action · Sci-Fi · Adventure
Avg critics83%
Avg audience86%
Avg domestic$309.3M
Domestic
$3.09B
Lifetime
Worldwide
$10.19B
Lifetime
Avg opening
$41.7M
3-day
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Avatar | 2009 | $77.0M | $785.2M | 9.70x | $2.92B | A | 81% | #1 |
 Avatar: The Way of Water | 2022 | $134.1M | $688.8M | 5.10x | $2.32B | A | 77% | #2 |
 Titanic | 1997 | $28.6M | $674.5M | 21.0x | $2.22B | A+ | 88% | — |
 Avatar: Fire and Ash | 2025 | $89.2M | $404.3M | 4.53x | $1.49B | A | 68% | #4 |
 Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 1991 | $31.8M | $206.1M | 6.48x | $517.9M | A+ | 90% | — |
 True Lies | 1994 | $25.9M | $146.3M | 5.70x | $365.3M | — | 77% | — |
 Aliens | 1986 | $10.1M | $85.2M | 8.50x | $183.3M | — | 93% | — |
 The Abyss | 1989 | $9.3M | $55.0M | — | $90.5M | — | 75% | — |
 The Terminator | 1984 | $4.0M | $38.0M | 9.50x | $78.0M | — | 90% | — |
 Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft—The Tour | 2026 | $7.0M | $9.9M | 1.40x | $9.9M | A | 93% | #72 |
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 4.7 years
Profitability
Return on budget
6.9x
$10.19B worldwide on $1.48B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs international split
Domestic $3.08BInternational $7.10B
Return by film
Worldwide ÷ budget0x2.5x breakeven12.3x
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#1Best multipliersAvatar9.73x#1Biggest 6th weekendsAvatar$34.9M#1Biggest 8th weekendsTitanic$23.0M#1Best second-weekend holds ($50M+ openers)Avatar−1.8%#1Longest runs of $1M+ daysTitanic—#2Most weeks at #1Titanic15 weeks#2Biggest Christmas openingsAvatar: Fire and Ash$89.2M#3Biggest 4th weekendsAvatar: The Way of Water$45.8M#4Biggest worldwide runsAvatar: The Way of Water$2.32B#6Biggest December openingsAvatar: The Way of Water$134.1M
Top 10 of 55 placings across 22 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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