Director
Brad Bird
6 films•1999–2018•Adventure · Action · Animation
88%average critics77%average audience$233.6Mdomestic average
Films
6
1999–2018
Domestic
$1.40B
lifetime
Worldwide
$3.43B
lifetime
Avg opening
$61.4M
3-day
Avg legs
4.24x
opening → total
Return
4.3x
on $807.0M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 6 films directed by Brad Bird, from The Iron Giant (1999) to Incredibles 2 (2018), together grossing $1.40B domestic and $3.43B worldwide. The biggest hit is Incredibles 2 (2018) at $1.24B worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $182.7M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Incredibles 2 | 2018 | $182.7M | $608.6M | 3.33x | $1.24B | A+ | 93% | #3 |
 Tomorrowland | 2015 | $33.0M | $93.4M | 2.83x | $206.6M | B | 50% | #30 |
 Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol | 2011 | $29.6M | $209.0M | 7.08x | $695.0M | A- | 93% | #7 |
 Ratatouille | 2007 | $47.0M | $206.0M | 4.39x | $624.0M | A | 96% | #11 |
 The Incredibles | 2004 | $70.5M | $261.0M | 3.71x | $631.0M | A+ | 97% | #5 |
 The Iron Giant | 1999 | $5.7M | $23.5M | 4.10x | $31.7M | — | 96% | — |
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 3.8 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
4.3x
$3.43B worldwide on $807.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.40BInternational $2.03B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven6.9x
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 →#1Biggest animated openingsIncredibles 2$182.7M#2Biggest PG openingsIncredibles 2$182.7M#2All-time PG domesticIncredibles 2$608.6M#13All-time G domesticRatatouille$206.4M
Top 4 of 9 placings across 9 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
Series
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
