Actor
Cillian Murphy
9 films•2002–2025•Thriller · Sci-Fi · Action
72%average critics72%average audience$118.4Mdomestic average
Films
9
2002–2025
Domestic
$1.07B
lifetime
Worldwide
$2.82B
lifetime
Avg opening
$30.4M
3-day
Avg legs
3.48x
opening → total
Return
4.1x
on $684.0M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 9 films featuring Cillian Murphy, from 28 Days Later (2002) to 28 Years Later (2025), together grossing $1.07B domestic and $2.82B worldwide. The biggest hit is Oppenheimer (2023) at $975.8M worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $82.5M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 28 Years Later | 2025 | $30.0M | $70.4M | 2.30x | $151.0M | B | 88% | #33 |
 Oppenheimer | 2023 | $82.5M | $329.9M | 4.00x | $975.8M | A | 92% | #5 |
 Transcendence | 2014 | $10.9M | $23.0M | 2.10x | $103.0M | — | 19% | — |
 In Time | 2011 | $12.1M | $37.5M | 3.11x | $174.0M | B- | 36% | — |
 Inception | 2010 | $62.8M | $293.0M | 4.66x | $828.0M | B+ | 87% | #6 |
 Sunshine | 2007 | $243K | $3.7M | 2.90x | $32.0M | — | 77% | — |
 Batman Begins | 2005 | $48.7M | $205.0M | 4.21x | $373.0M | A | 85% | #8 |
 Red Eye | 2005 | $16.2M | $57.9M | 3.58x | $96.7M | — | 80% | #45 |
 28 Days Later | 2002 | $10.1M | $45.1M | 4.50x | $82.8M | — | 87% | — |
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 2.9 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
4.1x
$2.82B worldwide on $684.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.07BInternational $1.75B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven10.3x
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 →#8All-time R domesticOppenheimer$326.7M#15Biggest R openingsOppenheimer$82.5M#17Best multipliersInception4.66x
3 placings across 3 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.
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