Director
Chris Sanders
6 films•1 as cast•2002–2025•Adventure · Animation · Comedy
82%average critics83%average audience$190.7Mdomestic average
Films
6
2002–2025
Domestic
$1.14B
lifetime
Worldwide
$2.44B
lifetime
Avg opening
$44.5M
3-day
Avg legs
4.46x
opening → total
Return
3.2x
on $773.0M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 6 films credited to Chris Sanders, 6 as director and 1 in the cast, from Lilo & Stitch (2002) to How to Train Your Dragon (2025), together grossing $1.14B domestic and $2.44B worldwide. The biggest hit is How to Train Your Dragon (2025) at $636.4M worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $84.6M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 How to Train Your Dragon | 2025 | $84.6M | $263.0M | 3.20x | $636.4M | A | 77% | #10 |
 The Wild Robot | 2024 | $35.0M | $268.0M | 7.66x | $334.5M | A | 97% | — |
 The Call of the Wild | 2020 | $24.8M | $62.3M | 2.50x | $110.8M | A- | 62% | #6 |
 The Croods | 2013 | $43.6M | $187.0M | 4.29x | $587.0M | A | 71% | #14 |
 How to Train Your Dragon | 2010 | $43.7M | $218.0M | 4.98x | $495.0M | A | 99% | #9 |
 Lilo & Stitch | 2002 | $35.3M | $146.0M | 4.13x | $273.0M | A | 86% | #13 |
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 4.6 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
3.2x
$2.44B worldwide on $773.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.14BInternational $1.29B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven4.3x
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 →#9Biggest PG openingsLilo & Stitch$146.0M#18All-time PG domesticLilo & Stitch$423.8M#39Biggest opening weekendsLilo & Stitch$146.0M
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
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
