Director
Dennis Dugan
8 films•1996–2013•Comedy · Romance · Sport
25%average critics60%average audience$112.0Mdomestic average
Films
8
1996–2013
Domestic
$895.8M
lifetime
Worldwide
$1.54B
lifetime
Avg opening
$32.7M
3-day
Avg legs
3.37x
opening → total
Return
2.9x
on $534.0M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 8 films directed by Dennis Dugan, from Happy Gilmore (1996) to Grown Ups 2 (2013), together grossing $895.8M domestic and $1.54B worldwide. The biggest hit is Grown Ups (2010) at $271.0M worldwide; the biggest opening weekend belongs to Big Daddy (1999) at $41.5M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grown Ups 2 | 2013 | $41.5M | $134.0M | 3.22x | $247.0M | B | 8% | #21 |
 Jack and Jill | 2011 | $25.0M | $74.2M | 2.97x | $150.0M | B | 3% | #47 |
 Just Go with It | 2011 | $30.5M | $103.0M | 3.38x | $215.0M | B | 20% | #27 |
| Grown Ups | 2010 | $40.5M | $162.0M | 4.00x | $271.0M | B | 10% | #15 |
 You Don't Mess with the Zohan | 2008 | $38.5M | $100.0M | 2.60x | $204.0M | A | 37% | #29 |
| I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry | 2007 | $34.2M | $120.0M | 3.51x | $187.0M | B+ | 15% | #23 |
| Big Daddy | 1999 | $41.5M | $163.5M | 3.90x | $228.6M | — | 39% | — |
 Happy Gilmore | 1996 | $10.1M | $39.1M | — | $41.4M | — | 66% | — |
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 2.4 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
2.9x
$1.54B worldwide on $534.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $895.8MInternational $648.2M
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven7.6x
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.