Actor
Eddie Murphy
15 films•1983–2011•Comedy · Adventure · Animation
58%average critics61%average audience$169.2Mdomestic average
Films
15
1983–2011
Domestic
$2.54B
lifetime
Worldwide
$5.13B
lifetime
Avg opening
$39.7M
3-day
Avg legs
5.88x
opening → total
Return
4.1x
on $1.16B of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 15 films featuring Eddie Murphy, from Trading Places (1983) to Tower Heist (2011), together grossing $2.54B domestic and $5.13B worldwide. The biggest hit is Shrek 2 (2004) at $929.0M worldwide; the biggest opening weekend belongs to Shrek the Third (2007) at $122.0M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Tower Heist | 2011 | $24.0M | $78.0M | 3.25x | $153.0M | B | 67% | #42 |
 Shrek Forever After | 2010 | $70.8M | $239.0M | 3.37x | $753.0M | A | 58% | #8 |
 Norbit | 2007 | $34.2M | $95.7M | 2.80x | $160.0M | B | 9% | #30 |
 Shrek the Third | 2007 | $122.0M | $323.0M | 2.65x | $808.0M | B+ | 41% | #2 |
 Dreamgirls | 2006 | $8.4M | $103.0M | 12.4x | $155.0M | A | 79% | #19 |
 Shrek 2 | 2004 | $108.0M | $442.0M | 4.09x | $929.0M | A | 89% | #1 |
 Daddy Day Care | 2003 | $27.6M | $104.0M | 3.78x | $164.0M | A- | 28% | #27 |
 The Haunted Mansion | 2003 | $24.3M | $75.8M | 3.12x | $182.0M | B | 14% | #39 |
 Dr. Dolittle 2 | 2001 | $25.0M | $113.0M | 4.51x | $176.0M | B+ | 41% | #17 |
 Shrek | 2001 | $42.3M | $270.1M | 6.40x | $485.0M | A | 88% | #3 |
 Nutty Professor II: The Klumps | 2000 | $42.5M | $123.0M | 2.90x | $166.0M | A- | 27% | #15 |
 Mulan | 1998 | $22.7M | $118.0M | 5.18x | $304.0M | A+ | 91% | — |
 Coming to America | 1988 | $21.4M | $128.2M | 6.00x | $288.8M | — | 71% | — |
 Beverly Hills Cop | 1984 | $15.2M | $234.8M | 15.4x | $316.3M | — | 83% | — |
 Trading Places | 1983 | $7.3M | $90.4M | 12.3x | $90.4M | — | 87% | — |
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
4.1x
$4.75B worldwide on $1.16B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $2.32BInternational $2.43B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven21.1x
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 →#3Most weeks at #1Beverly Hills Cop14 weeks#9Biggest animated openingsShrek the Third$121.6M#13All-time PG domesticShrek 2$441.6M#14Biggest PG openingsShrek the Third$121.6M#14Biggest animated openingsShrek 2$108.0M#15All-time R domesticBeverly Hills Cop$234.8M#20Biggest PG openingsShrek 2$108.0M
Top 7 of 8 placings across 6 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.
