Actor
Don Cheadle
13 films•1997–2021•Drama · Thriller · Crime
63%average critics72%average audience$116.2Mdomestic average
Films
13
1997–2021
Domestic
$1.51B
lifetime
Worldwide
$3.36B
lifetime
Avg opening
$37.5M
3-day
Avg legs
4.19x
opening → total
Return
3.1x
on $1.00B of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 13 films featuring Don Cheadle, from Boogie Nights (1997) to Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021), together grossing $1.51B domestic and $3.36B worldwide. The biggest hit is Iron Man 3 (2013) at $1.21B worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $174.0M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Space Jam: A New Legacy | 2021 | $31.1M | $71.0M | 2.30x | $164.0M | B+ | 26% | — |
 Iron Man 3 | 2013 | $174.0M | $409.0M | 2.35x | $1.21B | A | 79% | #2 |
 Flight | 2012 | $24.9M | $93.8M | 3.77x | $162.0M | A- | 77% | #32 |
 Iron Man 2 | 2010 | $128.0M | $312.0M | 2.44x | $624.0M | A | 72% | #3 |
 Hotel for Dogs | 2009 | $17.0M | $73.0M | 4.29x | $117.0M | A- | 47% | #45 |
 Ocean's Thirteen | 2007 | $36.1M | $117.0M | 3.24x | $311.0M | B+ | 70% | #26 |
 Crash | 2005 | $9.1M | $54.6M | 5.99x | $101.0M | A- | 73% | #50 |
 Hotel Rwanda | 2004 | $100K | $23.5M | 235.0x | $36.5M | — | 91% | — |
 Swordfish | 2001 | $18.1M | $69.8M | 3.85x | $147.0M | B | 27% | #35 |
 Traffic | 2001 | $15.5M | $124.0M | 8.00x | $208.0M | — | 93% | #16 |
 Mission to Mars | 2000 | $22.9M | $60.9M | 2.66x | $111.0M | C- | 23% | #40 |
 The Family Man | 2000 | $10.6M | $75.8M | 7.18x | $125.0M | B+ | 54% | #29 |
 Boogie Nights | 1997 | $50K | $26.4M | 526.4x | $43.1M | — | 91% | — |
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 2.0 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
3.1x
$3.15B worldwide on $1.00B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.39BInternational $1.76B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven15.5x
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 →#15Biggest PG-13 openingsIron Man 3$174.1M#19Biggest opening weekendsIron Man 3$174.1M#31Biggest worldwide runsIron Man 3$1.21B
Top 3 of 4 placings across 4 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.