Franchise
Ghostbusters
5 films•1984–2024•Columbia Pictures, Columbia Pictures / Sony
66%average critics73%average audience$167.3Mdomestic average
Films
5
1984–2024
Domestic
$836.4M
lifetime
Worldwide
$851.1M
lifetime
Avg opening
$35.7M
3-day
Avg legs
6.31x
opening → total
Return
2.0x
on $319.0M of budget
The Ghostbusters series runs to 5 films from Ghostbusters (1984) to Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024), together grossing $836.4M domestic and $851.1M worldwide. The biggest hit is Ghostbusters (2016) at $229.3M worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $46.0M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire | 2024 | $45.2M | $236.9M | 5.24x | $202.0M | B+ | 44% | — |
| Ghostbusters: Afterlife | 2021 | $44.0M | $129.4M | 2.90x | $204.3M | A- | 63% | #10 |
| Ghostbusters | 2016 | $46.0M | $128.4M | 2.79x | $229.3M | B | 73% | #21 |
 Ghostbusters II | 1989 | $29.5M | $112.5M | 3.80x | $215.5M | — | 57% | — |
| Ghostbusters | 1984 | $13.6M | $229.2M | 16.8x | — | — | 95% | — |
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 10.0 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
2.0x
$635.6M worldwide on $319.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $494.7MInternational $140.9M
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven2.7x
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 are left out of this section entirely, including from the totals, rather than counted as zero.
Records held
All records →1 placing across 1 all-time chart. Where a film places on the same chart in consecutive weekends, only its best placing is shown.
What’s next
Full schedule →No upcoming movies announced yet.
Connected
Directors
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.