Actor
James McAvoyFollow
20 films•1 also directed•2006–2026•Drama · Action · Sci-Fi
Avg critics66%
Avg audience71%
Avg domestic$76.9M
Domestic
$1.54B
Lifetime
Worldwide
$4.05B
Lifetime
Avg opening
$27.3M
3-day
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 X-Men: Days of Future Past | 2014 | $90.8M | $233.9M | 2.58x | $747.9M | A | 90% | #9 |
 It: Chapter Two | 2019 | $91.1M | $211.6M | 2.32x | $473.1M | B+ | 62% | #11 |
 X-Men: Apocalypse | 2016 | $65.8M | $155.4M | 2.36x | $542.5M | A- | 47% | #17 |
 X-Men: First Class | 2011 | $55.1M | $146.4M | 2.66x | $355.4M | B+ | 86% | #17 |
 Split | 2017 | $40.0M | $138.3M | 3.46x | $278.8M | A | 79% | #23 |
 Wanted | 2008 | $50.9M | $135.0M | 2.64x | $342.0M | B+ | 71% | #18 |
 Glass | 2019 | $40.3M | $111.0M | 2.75x | $247.0M | B | 37% | #25 |
 Gnomeo & Juliet | 2011 | $25.4M | $100.0M | 3.94x | $194.0M | B+ | 55% | #30 |
 X-Men: Dark Phoenix | 2019 | $32.8M | $65.8M | 2.01x | $246.4M | B- | 22% | #44 |
 Atomic Blonde | 2017 | $18.3M | $51.6M | 2.80x | $98.3M | — | 79% | — |
 Atonement | 2007 | $4.6M | $50.6M | 10.0x | $129.0M | — | 83% | #49 |
 Arthur Christmas | 2011 | $12.1M | $46.5M | 3.80x | $147.6M | A- | 93% | — |
 Speak No Evil | 2024 | $11.4M | $36.9M | 3.20x | $77.2M | B+ | 85% | #43 |
 Becoming Jane | 2007 | $972K | $18.7M | 6.40x | $39.4M | — | 58% | — |
 The Last King of Scotland | 2006 | $143K | $17.6M | — | $49.2M | — | 87% | — |
 Penelope | 2008 | $3.8M | $10.0M | 2.60x | $21.4M | — | 53% | — |
 Victor Frankenstein | 2015 | $2.5M | $5.8M | 2.30x | $31.1M | — | 26% | — |
 Trance | 2013 | $131K | $2.3M | 2.60x | $22.6M | — | 69% | — |
 Filth | 2014 | $8K | $34K | 4.60x | $9.1M | — | 66% | — |
 California Schemin' | 2026 | — | — | — | — | — | 0% | — |
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
DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 1.1 years
Profitability
Return on budget
3.4x
$4.02B worldwide on $1.19B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs international split
Domestic $1.53BInternational $2.49B
Return by film
Worldwide ÷ budget0x2.5x breakeven24.7x
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#2Biggest horror openingsIt: Chapter Two$91.1M#3Biggest September openingsIt: Chapter Two$91.1M#5Biggest January openingsGlass$40.3M#6Biggest horror filmsIt: Chapter Two$211.6M#7Biggest January openingsSplit$40.0M#9Biggest Memorial Day openingsX-Men: Days of Future Past$110.6M#11Biggest openings not at #1Wanted$50.9M#16Biggest Memorial Day openingsX-Men: Apocalypse$79.8M#19Biggest horror filmsSplit$138.3M
Top 9 of 10 placings across 7 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.