Actor
Elizabeth Banks
12 films•2 as director•2003–2023•Comedy · Action · Adventure
78%average critics76%average audience$152.2Mdomestic average
Films
12
2003–2023
Domestic
$1.83B
lifetime
Worldwide
$3.17B
lifetime
Avg opening
$49.6M
3-day
Avg legs
3.47x
opening → total
Return
5.1x
on $628.0M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 12 films credited to Elizabeth Banks, 2 as director and 10 in the cast, from Seabiscuit (2003) to Cocaine Bear (2023), together grossing $1.83B domestic and $3.17B worldwide. The biggest hit is The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) at $865.0M worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $158.0M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Cocaine Bear | 2023 | $23.3M | $64.7M | 2.80x | $90.0M | A | 89% | #40 |
 The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part | 2019 | $34.4M | $105.8M | 3.10x | $192.3M | A- | 84% | #29 |
 Pitch Perfect 2 | 2015 | $69.2M | $184.3M | 2.66x | $287.2M | A- | 66% | #13 |
 The Lego Movie | 2014 | $69.1M | $257.8M | 3.73x | $467.2M | A | 96% | #5 |
 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | 2013 | $158.0M | $425.0M | 2.69x | $865.0M | A | 90% | #1 |
 The Hunger Games | 2012 | $153.0M | $408.0M | 2.67x | $694.0M | A | 84% | #3 |
 The Next Three Days | 2010 | $6.5M | $21.1M | 3.20x | $67.3M | — | 50% | — |
 Definitely, Maybe | 2008 | $9.8M | $32.2M | 3.30x | $55.6M | — | 71% | — |
 Role Models | 2008 | $19.2M | $67.3M | 3.51x | $94.5M | — | 77% | #48 |
 Zack and Miri Make a Porno | 2008 | $10.1M | $31.5M | 3.10x | $36.9M | — | 65% | — |
 The 40-Year-Old Virgin | 2005 | $21.4M | $109.0M | 5.11x | $177.0M | A- | 85% | #19 |
 Seabiscuit | 2003 | $20.9M | $120.0M | 5.77x | $148.0M | A | 77% | #18 |
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 1.8 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
5.1x
$3.17B worldwide on $628.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.83BInternational $1.35B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven9.9x
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 →#27Biggest opening weekendsThe Hunger Games: Catching Fire$158.1M#31Biggest opening weekendsThe Hunger Games$152.5M#41Biggest domestic runsThe Hunger Games: Catching Fire$424.7M
3 placings across 2 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.
