Actor
Joseph Gordon-LevittFollow
20 films•1 also directed•1994–2020•Drama · Action · Comedy
Avg critics73%
Avg audience72%
Avg domestic$81.7M
Domestic
$1.47B
Lifetime
Worldwide
$3.18B
Lifetime
Avg opening
$22.2M
3-day
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 The Dark Knight Rises | 2012 | $160.9M | $448.1M | 2.78x | $1.08B | A | 87% | #2 |
 Inception | 2010 | $62.8M | $293.0M | 4.66x | $828.0M | B+ | 87% | #6 |
 Lincoln | 2012 | $21.0M | $182.0M | 8.66x | $275.0M | A | 89% | #13 |
 G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra | 2009 | $54.7M | $150.0M | 2.75x | $302.0M | B+ | 33% | #18 |
 Looper | 2012 | $20.8M | $66.5M | 3.20x | $177.0M | B | 93% | #44 |
 Angels in the Outfield | 1994 | $8.9M | $50.2M | 5.60x | — | A | 31% | — |
 The Night Before | 2015 | $9.9M | $43.0M | 4.40x | $52.6M | — | 69% | — |
 Treasure Planet | 2002 | $12.1M | $38.2M | 3.16x | $110.0M | A- | 68% | — |
 10 Things I Hate About You | 1999 | $8.3M | $38.2M | 4.60x | $60.4M | — | 72% | — |
 50/50 | 2011 | $8.6M | $35.0M | 4.10x | $41.3M | — | 93% | — |
 (500) Days of Summer | 2009 | $835K | $32.4M | 8.70x | $34.5M | — | 86% | — |
 Don Jon | 2013 | $8.7M | $24.5M | 2.80x | $41.3M | — | 80% | — |
 Snowden | 2016 | $8.0M | $21.6M | 2.70x | $35.4M | — | 61% | — |
 Premium Rush | 2012 | $6.0M | $20.3M | 3.40x | $31.4M | — | 75% | — |
 Sin City: A Dame to Kill For | 2014 | $6.3M | $13.8M | 2.20x | $40.7M | — | 43% | — |
 The Walk | 2015 | $1.6M | $10.2M | 2.70x | $61.5M | — | 83% | — |
 Brick | 2006 | $84K | $2.1M | 8.90x | $4.2M | — | 79% | — |
 Mysterious Skin | 2004 | $17K | $713K | 12.1x | $2.1M | — | 86% | — |
 Project Power | 2020 | — | — | — | — | — | 61% | — |
 The Trial of the Chicago 7 | 2020 | — | — | — | $0.1M | — | 89% | — |
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 1.4 years
Profitability
Return on budget
3.0x
$3.18B worldwide on $1.05B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs international split
Domestic $1.42BInternational $1.76B
Return by film
Worldwide ÷ budget0x2.5x breakeven9.3x
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#6Biggest July openingsThe Dark Knight Rises$160.9M#10Biggest August openingsG.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra$54.7M#12Biggest superhero filmsThe Dark Knight Rises$448.1M#13Biggest original filmsInception$292.6M#17Best multipliersInception4.66x#18Biggest grossers never #1Lincoln$182.2M#19Biggest PG-13 openingsThe Dark Knight Rises$160.9M#20Best second-weekend holds ($50M+ openers)Inception−32.0%
Top 8 of 12 placings across 12 all-time charts. Where a film places on the same chart in consecutive weekends, only its best placing is shown.
What’s next
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Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
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