Actor
John CleeseFollow
16 films•1975–2021•Comedy · Adventure · Animation
Avg critics64%
Avg audience66%
Avg domestic$85.8M
Domestic
$1.37B
Lifetime
Worldwide
$2.73B
Lifetime
Avg opening
$22.2M
3-day
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Shrek 2 | 2004 | $108.0M | $439.8M | 4.07x | $933.8M | A | 89% | #1 |
 Shrek the Third | 2007 | $122.0M | $322.7M | 2.65x | $807.3M | B+ | 41% | #2 |
 George of the Jungle | 1997 | $16.5M | $105.3M | 6.40x | $174.5M | B+ | 56% | — |
 Charlotte's Web | 2006 | $11.5M | $83.0M | 7.24x | $149.0M | A | 79% | #25 |
 The Day the Earth Stood Still | 2008 | $30.5M | $79.4M | 2.60x | $233.0M | C- | 21% | #41 |
 A Fish Called Wanda | 1988 | $115K | $63.5M | 13.2x | — | A | 96% | — |
 Clifford the Big Red Dog | 2021 | $16.6M | $49.0M | 2.95x | $78.4M | A | 58% | #27 |
 Planet 51 | 2009 | $12.3M | $42.2M | 3.40x | $109.0M | — | 23% | — |
 Time Bandits | 1981 | $6.5M | $37.4M | 5.70x | — | — | 92% | — |
 The Pink Panther 2 | 2009 | $11.6M | $35.9M | 3.10x | $70.0M | — | 13% | — |
 Silverado | 1985 | $3.5M | $33.2M | 9.40x | — | — | 78% | — |
 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | 1994 | $11.2M | $22.0M | 2.00x | $112.0M | B- | 42% | — |
 An American Tail: Fievel Goes West | 1991 | $3.4M | $20.2M | 5.90x | $38.8M | — | 59% | — |
 Life of Brian | 1979 | $140K | $20.2M | — | $20.5M | — | 96% | — |
 Monty Python's the Meaning of Life | 1983 | $2.0M | $14.9M | 7.50x | — | — | 86% | — |
 Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 1975 | — | $4.2M | — | $5.8M | — | 92% | — |
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 3.1 years
Profitability
Return on budget
3.9x
$2.62B worldwide on $679.4M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs international split
Domestic $1.17BInternational $1.46B
Return by film
Worldwide ÷ budget0x2.5x breakeven12.5x
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 ($100M+ openers)Shrek 2−33.2%#8Biggest animated filmsShrek 2$439.8M#9Biggest animated openingsShrek the Third$121.6M#11Longest runs of $1M+ daysShrek 2—#12Biggest May openingsShrek the Third$121.6M#14Biggest PG openingsShrek the Third$121.6M
Top 6 of 11 placings across 8 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.
