Actor
Christopher Plummer
11 films•1965–2019•Drama · Mystery · Crime
77%average critics84%average audience$106.7Mdomestic average
Films
11
1965–2019
Domestic
$1.17B
lifetime
Worldwide
$2.57B
lifetime
Avg opening
$17.6M
3-day
Avg legs
5.28x
opening → total
Return
4.4x
on $586.4M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 11 films featuring Christopher Plummer, from The Sound of Music (1965) to Knives Out (2019), together grossing $1.17B domestic and $2.57B worldwide. The biggest hit is Up (2009) at $735.0M worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $68.1M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Knives Out | 2019 | $26.8M | $165.4M | 6.17x | $312.9M | A- | 97% | #15 |
 Beginners | 2011 | $141K | $5.8M | — | $14.3M | — | 86% | — |
 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | 2011 | $12.8M | $102.5M | 8.00x | $239.4M | — | 86% | — |
 Up | 2009 | $68.1M | $293.0M | 4.30x | $735.0M | A+ | 98% | #5 |
 Inside Man | 2006 | $29.0M | $88.5M | 3.06x | $186.0M | B+ | 86% | #22 |
 The Lake House | 2006 | $13.6M | $52.3M | 3.84x | $115.0M | B | 35% | — |
 A Beautiful Mind | 2001 | $16.6M | $171.0M | 10.3x | $314.0M | A- | 74% | #11 |
 Pokémon the Movie 2000 | 2000 | $19.6M | $43.8M | 2.24x | $134.0M | A- | 19% | — |
 The Insider | 1999 | $6.7M | $29.0M | 4.30x | $60.3M | — | 96% | — |
 Twelve Monkeys | 1995 | $179K | $57.1M | 319.7x | $168.8M | — | 88% | — |
 The Sound of Music | 1965 | — | $164.8M | — | $287.8M | — | 83% | — |
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 5.4 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
4.4x
$2.57B worldwide on $586.4M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.17BInternational $1.39B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven35.1x
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 →2 placings across 2 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.