Director
Chris Buck
5 films•1999–2023•Animation · Adventure · Comedy
79%average critics80%average audience$234.5Mdomestic average
Films
5
1999–2023
Domestic
$1.17B
lifetime
Worldwide
$3.58B
lifetime
Avg opening
$56.2M
3-day
Avg legs
4.00x
opening → total
Return
4.9x
on $730.0M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 5 films directed by Chris Buck, from Tarzan (1999) to Wish (2023), together grossing $1.17B domestic and $3.58B worldwide. The biggest hit is Frozen II (2019) at $1.45B worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $130.3M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Wish | 2023 | $31.6M | $64.0M | 2.03x | $255.0M | A | 62% | #41 |
 Frozen II | 2019 | $130.3M | $477.4M | 3.70x | $1.45B | A- | 77% | #4 |
 Frozen | 2013 | $67.4M | $401.0M | 5.95x | $1.28B | A+ | 89% | #3 |
 Surf's Up | 2007 | $17.6M | $58.9M | 3.34x | $152.0M | A- | 78% | #42 |
 Tarzan | 1999 | $34.2M | $171.0M | 4.99x | $448.0M | A | 90% | — |
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 6.0 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
4.9x
$3.58B worldwide on $730.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.17BInternational $2.41B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven9.7x
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 →#3Biggest 6th weekendsFrozen$28.6M#4Best multipliersFrozen5.95x#8Biggest animated openingsFrozen II$130.3M#9All-time PG domesticFrozen II$477.4M#13Biggest PG openingsFrozen II$130.3M#17All-time G domesticTarzan$171.1M#19All-time PG domesticFrozen$400.7M
Top 7 of 18 placings across 14 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.