Actor & Director
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33 films•6 as director•1979–2025•Action · Drama · Crime
Avg critics61%
Avg audience66%
Avg domestic$86.6M
Domestic
$2.86B
Lifetime
Worldwide
$5.45B
Lifetime
Avg opening
$18.2M
3-day
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 The Passion of the Christ | 2004 | $83.8M | $371.9M | 4.42x | $609.0M | A+ | 50% | #3 |
 Signs | 2002 | $60.1M | $228.0M | 3.79x | $408.0M | B | 76% | #6 |
 What Women Want | 2000 | $33.6M | $183.0M | 5.44x | $374.0M | B+ | 53% | #5 |
 Lethal Weapon 2 | 1989 | $20.4M | $147.3M | 7.20x | $227.3M | — | 82% | — |
 Lethal Weapon 3 | 1992 | $33.2M | $144.7M | 4.40x | $319.7M | — | 61% | — |
 Pocahontas | 1995 | $2.7M | $142.0M | 4.80x | $347.0M | — | 59% | — |
 Ransom | 1996 | $34.2M | $136.5M | 4.00x | $308.7M | — | 73% | — |
 Lethal Weapon 4 | 1998 | $34.0M | $130.4M | 3.80x | $285.4M | — | 54% | — |
 The Patriot | 2000 | $22.4M | $113.0M | 5.06x | $215.0M | A | 62% | #18 |
 Chicken Run | 2000 | $17.5M | $107.0M | 6.10x | $225.0M | A- | 97% | #19 |
 Daddy's Home 2 | 2017 | $29.7M | $104.0M | 3.51x | $180.8M | A | 52% | #30 |
 Maverick | 1994 | $17.2M | $101.6M | 5.90x | $183.0M | A- | 67% | — |
 Payback | 1999 | $21.2M | $81.5M | 3.80x | $161.6M | — | 56% | — |
 We Were Soldiers | 2002 | $20.2M | $78.1M | 3.87x | $115.0M | A | 63% | #33 |
 Conspiracy Theory | 1997 | $19.3M | $76.1M | 3.90x | $142.8M | B+ | 59% | — |
 Braveheart | 1995 | $9.9M | $75.6M | 7.60x | $213.0M | — | 74% | — |
 Bird on a Wire | 1990 | $15.3M | $71.0M | 4.60x | $138.7M | — | 26% | — |
 Hacksaw Ridge | 2016 | $15.2M | $67.2M | 4.42x | $168.4M | A | 88% | #46 |
 Lethal Weapon | 1987 | $6.8M | $65.2M | 9.50x | $120.2M | — | 82% | — |
 Forever Young | 1992 | $5.6M | $55.9M | 10.0x | $127.9M | A- | 54% | — |
 Apocalypto | 2006 | $15.0M | $50.9M | 3.39x | $121.0M | B+ | 65% | — |
 Edge of Darkness | 2010 | $17.2M | $43.3M | 2.50x | $82.8M | — | 54% | — |
 Tequila Sunrise | 1988 | $6.4M | $39.7M | 6.30x | — | — | 52% | — |
 The Expendables 3 | 2014 | $15.9M | $39.3M | 2.50x | $209.5M | — | 32% | — |
 Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome | 1985 | $7.3M | $36.2M | 5.00x | — | — | 80% | — |
 Air America | 1990 | $8.1M | $30.5M | 3.80x | $32.9M | — | 12% | — |
 Flight Risk | 2025 | $11.6M | $29.8M | 2.60x | $48.7M | — | 28% | — |
 The Man Without a Face | 1993 | $4.0M | $24.8M | 6.10x | — | — | 68% | — |
 The Road Warrior | 1981 | $2.5M | $23.7M | 9.40x | $23.7M | — | 93% | — |
 Father Stu | 2022 | $5.4M | $21.1M | 3.90x | $22.0M | — | 41% | — |
 Hamlet | 1990 | $117K | $20.7M | 177.1x | $22.5M | — | 76% | — |
 Mad Max | 1979 | — | $8.8M | — | — | — | 89% | — |
 Machete Kills | 2013 | $3.8M | $8.0M | 2.10x | $18.3M | — | 29% | — |
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Film by film
0$250M$500M
DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 1.4 years
Profitability
Return on budget
3.7x
$4.72B worldwide on $1.28B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs international split
Domestic $2.32BInternational $2.40B
Return by film
Worldwide ÷ budget0x2.5x breakeven20.3x
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#3All-time R domesticThe Passion of the Christ$371.9M#6Biggest February openingsThe Passion of the Christ$83.8M#7Biggest August openingsSigns$60.1M#8Biggest 7th weekendsThe Passion of the Christ$15.2M#11Biggest horror openingsSigns$60.1M
Top 5 of 6 placings across 6 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.