Actor
Chiwetel Ejiofor
14 films•2005–2026•Adventure · Action · Drama
72%average critics82%average audience$177.6Mdomestic average
Films
14
2005–2026
Domestic
$2.49B
lifetime
Worldwide
$7.12B
lifetime
Avg opening
$62.7M
3-day
Avg legs
3.32x
opening → total
Return
4.3x
on $1.64B of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 14 films featuring Chiwetel Ejiofor, from Serenity (2005) to Backrooms (2026), together grossing $2.49B domestic and $7.12B worldwide. The biggest hit is The Lion King (2019) at $1.66B worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $191.8M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Backrooms | 2026 | $81.4M | $197.5M | 2.40x | $393.1M | B- | 89% | #9 |
 Venom: The Last Dance | 2024 | $51.1M | $139.2M | 2.70x | $478.9M | A- | 37% | #18 |
 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | 2022 | $187.4M | $411.3M | 2.20x | $952.2M | A | 74% | #4 |
 Maleficent: Mistress of Evil | 2019 | $36.0M | $113.3M | 3.15x | $491.0M | A | 40% | #24 |
 The Lion King | 2019 | $191.8M | $543.6M | 2.83x | $1.66B | A | 52% | #2 |
 Doctor Strange | 2016 | $85.1M | $232.6M | 2.73x | $677.5M | A | 89% | #13 |
 The Martian | 2015 | $54.3M | $228.4M | 4.21x | $653.6M | A+ | 91% | #9 |
 12 Years a Slave | 2013 | $6.7M | $56.7M | 8.49x | $188.0M | A | 95% | — |
 Salt | 2010 | $36.0M | $118.0M | 3.29x | $294.0M | B+ | 62% | #22 |
 2012 | 2009 | $65.2M | $166.0M | 2.55x | $770.0M | B+ | 40% | #15 |
 American Gangster | 2007 | $43.6M | $130.0M | 2.99x | $270.0M | B+ | 81% | #19 |
 Children of Men | 2006 | $501K | $35.6M | 71.0x | $69.8M | — | 92% | — |
 Inside Man | 2006 | $29.0M | $88.5M | 3.06x | $186.0M | B+ | 86% | #22 |
 Serenity | 2005 | $10.1M | $25.5M | 2.50x | $40.3M | — | 82% | — |
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 1.6 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
4.3x
$7.12B worldwide on $1.64B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $2.49BInternational $4.64B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven39.3x
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 are left out of this section entirely, including from the totals, rather than counted as zero.
Records held
All records →#1Biggest PG openingsThe Lion King$191.8M#2All-time G domesticThe Lion King$422.8M#4All-time PG domesticThe Lion King$543.6M#4Biggest horror openingsBackrooms$81.4M#10Biggest single daysDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness$90.7M#11Biggest PG-13 openingsDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness$187.4M#13Biggest opening weekendsDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness$187.4M#16Biggest R openingsBackrooms$81.4M
Top 8 of 15 placings across 11 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
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
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