Actor
Dakota Fanning
12 films•2003–2024•Drama · Adventure · Comedy
53%average critics66%average audience$130.6Mdomestic average
Films
12
2003–2024
Domestic
$1.57B
lifetime
Worldwide
$3.33B
lifetime
Avg opening
$40.7M
3-day
Avg legs
3.69x
opening → total
Return
4.3x
on $759.0M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 12 films featuring Dakota Fanning, from The Cat in the Hat (2003) to Coraline (15th Anniversary) (2024), together grossing $1.57B domestic and $3.33B worldwide. The biggest hit is The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) at $710.0M worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $143.0M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Coraline (15th Anniversary) | 2024 | $16.8M | $74.3M | 4.42x | $50.4M | A | 87% | — |
 The Equalizer 3 | 2023 | $34.6M | $92.4M | 2.70x | $191.1M | A | 71% | #28 |
 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | 2019 | $41.1M | $142.5M | 3.47x | $377.4M | B | 86% | #20 |
 The Twilight Saga: Eclipse | 2010 | $64.8M | $301.0M | 4.64x | $698.0M | — | 46% | #4 |
| Coraline | 2009 | $16.8M | $75.3M | 4.47x | $127.0M | — | 91% | #43 |
 The Twilight Saga: New Moon | 2009 | $143.0M | $297.0M | 2.08x | $710.0M | — | 28% | #4 |
 Charlotte's Web | 2006 | $11.5M | $83.0M | 7.24x | $149.0M | A | 79% | #25 |
 Hide and Seek | 2005 | $22.0M | $51.1M | 2.33x | $123.0M | B- | 12% | — |
 War of the Worlds | 2005 | $64.9M | $234.0M | 3.61x | $604.0M | B+ | 76% | #4 |
 Man on Fire | 2004 | $22.8M | $77.9M | 3.42x | $131.0M | A- | 39% | #33 |
 The Cat in the Hat | 2003 | $38.3M | $101.0M | 2.64x | $134.0M | B- | 10% | #29 |
 Uptown Girls | 2003 | $11.3M | $37.1M | 3.30x | $37.1M | — | 14% | — |
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 1.9 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
4.3x
$3.24B worldwide on $759.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.46BInternational $1.79B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven14.2x
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 →#18Best multipliersThe Twilight Saga: Eclipse4.64x#42Biggest opening weekendsThe Twilight Saga: New Moon$142.8M
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.
