Director
Danny Boyle
9 films•1996–2025•Drama · Romance · Thriller
77%average critics79%average audience$47.3Mdomestic average
Films
9
1996–2025
Domestic
$425.9M
lifetime
Worldwide
$1.11B
lifetime
Avg opening
$10.5M
3-day
Avg legs
4.93x
opening → total
Return
4.4x
on $250.1M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 9 films directed by Danny Boyle, from Trainspotting (1996) to 28 Years Later (2025), together grossing $425.9M domestic and $1.11B worldwide. The biggest hit is Slumdog Millionaire (2008) at $378.0M worldwide; the biggest opening weekend belongs to 28 Years Later (2025) at $30.0M.
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 |
 Yesterday | 2019 | $17.0M | $73.3M | 4.31x | $154.6M | A- | 63% | #39 |
 Steve Jobs | 2015 | $7.1M | $17.8M | 2.50x | $35.6M | — | 85% | — |
 127 Hours | 2010 | $2.1M | $18.3M | 8.60x | $60.2M | — | 93% | — |
 Slumdog Millionaire | 2008 | $12.0M | $141.0M | 11.7x | $378.0M | — | 92% | #16 |
 Sunshine | 2007 | $243K | $3.7M | 2.90x | $32.0M | — | 77% | — |
 28 Days Later | 2002 | $10.1M | $45.1M | 4.50x | $82.8M | — | 87% | — |
 The Beach | 2000 | $15.3M | $39.8M | 2.60x | $144.0M | C | 21% | — |
 Trainspotting | 1996 | $263K | $16.5M | 62.8x | $71.5M | — | 90% | — |
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 3.6 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
4.4x
$1.11B worldwide on $250.1M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $425.9MInternational $683.8M
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven25.2x
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.
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.