Director
Francis Lawrence
9 films•2005–2026•Action · Sci-Fi · Adventure
69%average critics73%average audience$180.5Mdomestic average
Films
9
2005–2026
Domestic
$1.62B
lifetime
Worldwide
$3.65B
lifetime
Avg opening
$62.5M
3-day
Avg legs
2.95x
opening → total
Return
4.3x
on $854.0M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 9 films directed by Francis Lawrence, from Constantine (2005) to The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (2026), together grossing $1.62B domestic and $3.65B 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping | 2026 | — | — | — | — | — | 0% | — |
 The Long Walk | 2025 | $11.7M | $35.2M | 3.00x | $62.9M | B | 88% | #53 |
 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes | 2023 | $44.6M | $166.4M | 3.73x | $349.0M | A | 84% | — |
 Red Sparrow | 2018 | $16.9M | $46.9M | 2.80x | $146.0M | — | 45% | — |
 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 | 2015 | $102.7M | $281.7M | 2.74x | $646.1M | A- | 69% | #8 |
 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 | 2014 | $121.9M | $337.1M | 2.77x | $766.6M | A- | 65% | #2 |
 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | 2013 | $158.0M | $425.0M | 2.69x | $865.0M | A | 90% | #1 |
 I Am Legend | 2007 | $77.2M | $256.0M | 3.32x | $585.0M | B | 68% | #6 |
 Constantine | 2005 | $29.8M | $76.0M | 2.55x | $231.0M | B | 46% | #30 |
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
4.3x
$3.65B worldwide on $854.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.62BInternational $2.03B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven6.7x
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 →#6Biggest horror openingsI Am Legend$77.2M#27Biggest opening weekendsThe Hunger Games: Catching Fire$158.1M#41Biggest domestic runsThe Hunger Games: Catching Fire$424.7M
3 placings across 3 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
Series
Studios
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
