Director
Chris Columbus
7 films•1990–2015•Family · Comedy · Adventure
57%average critics67%average audience$202.6Mdomestic average
Films
7
1990–2015
Domestic
$1.42B
lifetime
Worldwide
$3.60B
lifetime
Avg opening
$43.2M
3-day
Avg legs
6.44x
opening → total
Return
7.6x
on $473.0M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 7 films directed by Chris Columbus, from Home Alone (1990) to Pixels (2015), together grossing $1.42B domestic and $3.60B worldwide. The biggest hit is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) at $975.0M worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $90.3M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Pixels | 2015 | $24.0M | $78.7M | 3.28x | $243.5M | B+ | 17% | #38 |
 Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief | 2010 | $31.2M | $88.8M | 2.84x | $226.0M | B+ | 48% | #39 |
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | 2002 | $88.4M | $262.0M | 2.97x | $879.0M | A+ | 82% | #4 |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | 2001 | $90.3M | $318.0M | 3.52x | $975.0M | A | 80% | #1 |
| Mrs. Doubtfire | 1993 | $20.5M | $219.2M | 10.7x | $441.3M | — | 71% | — |
 Home Alone 2: Lost in New York | 1992 | $31.1M | $173.6M | 5.60x | $359.0M | — | 35% | — |
| Home Alone | 1990 | $17.1M | $278.0M | 16.2x | $477.0M | A | 66% | — |
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 4.2 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
7.6x
$3.60B worldwide on $473.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.42BInternational $2.18B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven26.5x
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 →#5Most weeks at #1Home Alone12 weeks#6Biggest 9th weekendsHome Alone$9.8M#8Biggest 9th weekendsMrs. Doubtfire$8.8M
Top 3 of 7 placings across 6 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.
