Actor
James Earl JonesFollow
12 films•1977–2019•Drama · Adventure · Action
Avg critics66%
Avg audience72%
Avg domestic$146.7M
Domestic
$1.76B
Lifetime
Worldwide
$4.91B
Lifetime
Avg opening
$30.7M
3-day
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 The Lion King | 2019 | $191.8M | $543.6M | 2.83x | $1.66B | A | 52% | #2 |
 The Lion King | 1994 | $40.9M | $424.0M | 7.61x | $988.4M | A+ | 92% | — |
 Coming to America | 1988 | $21.4M | $128.2M | 6.00x | $288.8M | — | 71% | — |
 Clear and Present Danger | 1994 | $20.3M | $122.0M | 6.00x | $207.5M | — | 81% | — |
 The Hunt for Red October | 1990 | $17.2M | $120.7M | 7.00x | $200.5M | — | 88% | — |
| The Lion King | 2011 | $30.2M | $94.2M | 3.13x | $988.0M | A+ | 92% | #32 |
 Patriot Games | 1992 | $18.5M | $83.3M | 4.50x | $178.1M | A- | 72% | — |
 Field of Dreams | 1989 | $531K | $64.5M | 11.9x | $84.5M | — | 88% | — |
 Fantasia 2000 | 2000 | $2.9M | $60.7M | 20.8x | $90.9M | — | 19% | #42 |
 Sommersby | 1993 | $8.1M | $50.1M | 6.20x | $140.1M | A- | 63% | — |
 Conan the Barbarian | 1982 | $9.5M | $38.3M | 4.00x | $79.1M | — | 68% | — |
 Exorcist II: The Heretic | 1977 | $6.7M | $30.7M | 4.60x | — | — | 10% | — |
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$1.5B
DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 3.8 years
Profitability
Return on budget
7.3x
$4.53B worldwide on $617.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs international split
Domestic $1.54BInternational $3.00B
Return by film
Worldwide ÷ budget0x2.5x breakeven22.0x
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#1Biggest PG openingsThe Lion King$191.8M#2All-time G domesticThe Lion King$424.0M#3Biggest July openingsThe Lion King$191.8M
Top 3 of 12 placings across 11 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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