Director
Tim BurtonFollow
20 films•1985–2024•Comedy · Fantasy · Adventure
Avg critics72%
Avg audience70%
Avg domestic$112.5M
Domestic
$2.25B
Lifetime
Worldwide
$4.79B
Lifetime
Avg opening
$32.3M
3-day
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Alice in Wonderland | 2010 | $116.0M | $334.2M | 2.88x | $1.03B | A- | 51% | #2 |
 Beetlejuice Beetlejuice | 2024 | $111.0M | $294.1M | 2.65x | $452.0M | B+ | 75% | #6 |
 Batman | 1989 | $40.5M | $251.2M | 6.20x | $411.3M | — | 77% | — |
 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | 2005 | $56.2M | $206.0M | 3.68x | $475.0M | A- | 83% | #7 |
 Planet of the Apes | 2001 | $68.5M | $180.0M | 2.63x | $362.2M | B- | 42% | #10 |
 Batman Returns | 1992 | $45.7M | $163.0M | 3.60x | $267.0M | — | 81% | — |
 Dumbo | 2019 | $46.0M | $114.8M | 2.50x | $353.2M | A- | 46% | #23 |
 Sleepy Hollow | 1999 | $30.1M | $101.1M | 3.40x | $207.1M | — | 71% | — |
 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children | 2016 | $28.9M | $87.2M | 3.02x | $296.0M | B+ | 63% | #35 |
 Dark Shadows | 2012 | $29.7M | $79.7M | 2.69x | $246.0M | B- | 35% | #38 |
 Beetlejuice | 1988 | $8.0M | $77.5M | 9.60x | $78.1M | — | 83% | — |
 Big Fish | 2003 | $13.8M | $66.8M | 4.80x | $123.0M | B+ | 76% | #44 |
 Edward Scissorhands | 1990 | $160K | $54.0M | 338.2x | — | — | 92% | — |
 Corpse Bride | 2005 | $19.1M | $53.4M | 2.79x | $117.0M | B+ | 85% | — |
 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | 2007 | $9.3M | $52.9M | 5.69x | $153.0M | — | 86% | #48 |
 Pee-wee's Big Adventure | 1985 | $99K | $40.9M | 9.00x | — | — | 78% | — |
 Mars Attacks! | 1996 | $9.4M | $37.8M | 4.00x | $101.4M | — | 56% | — |
 Frankenweenie | 2012 | $11.4M | $35.3M | 3.10x | $81.2M | B+ | 87% | — |
 Big Eyes | 2014 | $3.0M | $14.5M | 4.80x | $27.3M | — | 72% | — |
 Ed Wood | 1994 | $72K | $5.9M | 3.10x | $5.9M | — | 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 2.1 years
Profitability
Return on budget
3.2x
$4.79B worldwide on $1.49B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs international split
Domestic $2.16BInternational $2.63B
Return by film
Worldwide ÷ budget0x2.5x breakeven10.4x
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 September openingsBeetlejuice Beetlejuice$111.0M#6Biggest March openingsAlice in Wonderland$116.1M#14Best second-weekend holds ($100M+ openers)Alice in Wonderland−46.0%#16Biggest PG openingsAlice in Wonderland$116.1M#19Biggest PG openingsBeetlejuice Beetlejuice$110.0M
5 placings across 4 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.
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