Director
David Ayer
6 films•2012–2025•Action · Drama · Crime
56%average critics82%average audience$92.5Mdomestic average
Films
6
2012–2025
Domestic
$555.1M
lifetime
Worldwide
$1.27B
lifetime
Avg opening
$33.8M
3-day
Avg legs
3.11x
opening → total
Return
3.6x
on $350.0M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 6 films directed by David Ayer, from End of Watch (2012) to A Working Man (2025), together grossing $555.1M domestic and $1.27B worldwide. The biggest hit is Suicide Squad (2016) at $749.2M worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $133.7M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 A Working Man | 2025 | $15.5M | $37.0M | 2.39x | $89.0M | B | 51% | #50 |
 The Beekeeper | 2024 | $16.6M | $66.2M | 4.00x | $162.6M | B+ | 70% | #34 |
 Bright | 2017 | — | — | — | — | — | 26% | — |
 Suicide Squad | 2016 | $133.7M | $325.1M | 2.43x | $749.2M | A- | 26% | #9 |
 Fury | 2014 | $23.8M | $85.8M | 3.61x | $210.2M | A- | 76% | #39 |
 End of Watch | 2012 | $13.2M | $41.0M | 3.10x | $57.6M | — | 85% | — |
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 2.6 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
3.6x
$1.27B worldwide on $350.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $555.1MInternational $713.5M
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven4.3x
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 →1 placing across 1 all-time chart. 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.
