Christopher McQuarrie
Director

Christopher McQuarrie

5 films•2012–2025•Action · Thriller · Adventure
84%average critics85%average audience$173.0Mdomestic average
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Films
5
2012–2025
Domestic
$864.8M
lifetime
Worldwide
$2.87B
lifetime
Avg opening
$50.1M
3-day
Avg legs
3.69x
opening → total
Return
2.9x
on $979.0M of budget

Box Office Watch tracks 5 films directed by Christopher McQuarrie, from Jack Reacher (2012) to Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025), together grossing $864.8M domestic and $2.87B worldwide. The biggest hit is Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) at $791.1M worldwide; the biggest opening weekend belongs to Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025) at $64.0M.

Filmography

5 films
FilmYearOpeningDomesticLegsWorldwideCinemaScoreRTYearly rank
Mission: Impossible – The Final ReckoningPG-13 · 2h 49m2025$64.0M$197.4M3.00x$598.8MA-80%#12
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part OnePG-13 · 2h 43m2023$54.7M$172.1M3.10x$571.1MA86%#13
Mission: Impossible - FalloutPG-13 · 2h 27m2018$61.5M$220.2M3.58x$791.1MA97%#9
Mission: Impossible - Rogue NationPG-13 · 2h 11m2015$55.3M$195.0M3.53x$688.9MA-93%#12
Jack ReacherPG-13 · 2h 10m2012$15.2M$80.1M5.26x$218.0MA-64%#37
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

in release order
0$250M$500M$750M
Jack Reacher2012Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation2015Mission: Impossible - Fallout2018Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One2023Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning2025
DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 3.2 years

Profitability

the 5 of 5 films with a reported budget
Return on Budget
2.9x
$2.87B worldwide on $979.0M of production budget
Budget$979.0M
Domestic$864.8M
Worldwide$2.87B
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
30%DOMESTIC
Domestic $864.8MInternational $2.00B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation2015 · $150.0M budget4.6x
Mission: Impossible - Fallout2018 · $178.0M budget4.4x
Jack Reacher2012 · $60.0M budget3.6x
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning2025 · $300.0M budget2.0x
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One2023 · $291.0M budget2.0x
0x2.5x breakeven4.6x
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.

What’s next

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Connected

Series
Mission: Impossible4
Studios
Paramount Pictures3
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.