Franchise
Iron Man
3 films•2008–2013•Paramount Pictures, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
82%average critics80%average audience$346.7Mdomestic average
Films
3
2008–2013
Domestic
$1.04B
lifetime
Worldwide
$2.42B
lifetime
Avg opening
$133.5M
3-day
Avg legs
2.67x
opening → total
Return
4.5x
on $540.0M of budget
The Iron Man series runs to 3 films from Iron Man (2008) to Iron Man 3 (2013), together grossing $1.04B domestic and $2.42B worldwide. The biggest hit is Iron Man 3 (2013) at $1.21B worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $174.0M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iron Man 3 | 2013 | $174.0M | $409.0M | 2.35x | $1.21B | A | 79% | #2 |
| Iron Man 2 | 2010 | $128.0M | $312.0M | 2.44x | $624.0M | A | 72% | #3 |
| Iron Man | 2008 | $98.6M | $319.0M | 3.23x | $585.0M | A | 94% | #2 |
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 2.5 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
4.5x
$2.42B worldwide on $540.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.04BInternational $1.38B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven6.0x
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 →#15Biggest PG-13 openingsIron Man 3$174.1M#19Biggest opening weekendsIron Man 3$174.1M#31Biggest worldwide runsIron Man 3$1.21B
Top 3 of 4 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 schedule →No upcoming movies announced yet.
Connected
Directors
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.