Director
Ryan CooglerFollow
5 films•2013–2025•Drama · Action · Biography
Avg critics93%
Avg audience87%
Avg domestic$312.0M
Domestic
$1.56B
Lifetime
Worldwide
$2.75B
Lifetime
Avg opening
$92.2M
3-day
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Black Panther | 2018 | $202.0M | $700.1M | 3.47x | $1.33B | A+ | 96% | #1 |
 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | 2022 | $181.3M | $453.8M | 2.50x | $859.2M | A | 84% | #3 |
 Sinners | 2025 | $48.0M | $280.0M | 5.83x | $370.0M | A | 97% | #8 |
 Creed | 2015 | $29.4M | $109.8M | 3.73x | $174.2M | A+ | 95% | #28 |
 Fruitvale Station | 2013 | $377K | $16.1M | 3.50x | $17.5M | — | 94% | — |
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
DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 3.0 years
Profitability
Return on budget
4.8x
$2.75B worldwide on $577.9M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs international split
Domestic $1.56BInternational $1.19B
Return by film
Worldwide ÷ budget0x2.5x breakeven13.3x
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#1Biggest February openingsBlack Panther$202.0M#1Biggest November openingsBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever$181.3M#2Biggest horror filmsSinners$280.0M#4Biggest superhero filmsBlack Panther$700.1M#5Biggest second weekendsBlack Panther$111.7M#11All-time R domesticSinners$280.0M#11Biggest superhero filmsBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever$453.8M#12Biggest PG-13 openingsBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever$181.3M#15Biggest Thanksgiving openingsCreed$42.1M#15Biggest original filmsSinners$280.0M
Top 10 of 31 placings across 24 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.
