Actor
Geoffrey Rush
12 films•1996–2017•Adventure · Drama · Action
71%average critics75%average audience$148.8Mdomestic average
Films
12
1996–2017
Domestic
$1.79B
lifetime
Worldwide
$5.47B
lifetime
Avg opening
$36.4M
3-day
Avg legs
6.63x
opening → total
Return
4.4x
on $1.21B of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 12 films featuring Geoffrey Rush, from Shine (1996) to Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017), together grossing $1.79B domestic and $5.47B worldwide. The biggest hit is Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) at $1.05B worldwide; the biggest opening weekend belongs to Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) at $115.0M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales | 2017 | $63.0M | $172.6M | 2.74x | $794.9M | A- | 38% | #19 |
 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | 2011 | $90.2M | $241.0M | 2.67x | $1.05B | B+ | 32% | #5 |
 Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole | 2010 | $16.1M | $55.7M | 3.46x | $140.0M | A- | 52% | — |
 The King's Speech | 2010 | $9.2M | $135.0M | 14.7x | $411.0M | A+ | 94% | #18 |
 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | 2007 | $115.0M | $309.0M | 2.70x | $961.0M | A- | 43% | #4 |
 Finding Nemo | 2003 | $70.3M | $340.0M | 4.84x | $871.0M | A+ | 99% | #2 |
 Intolerable Cruelty | 2003 | $12.5M | $35.3M | 2.82x | $121.0M | C+ | 76% | — |
 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | 2003 | $46.6M | $305.0M | 6.55x | $654.0M | A | 79% | #3 |
 Frida | 2002 | $2.4M | $25.9M | 10.9x | $56.1M | — | 77% | — |
 Elizabeth | 1998 | $3.4M | $30.1M | 8.90x | $82.2M | — | 83% | — |
 Shakespeare in Love | 1998 | $7.9M | $100.3M | 12.7x | $289.3M | — | 93% | — |
 Shine | 1996 | — | $35.8M | — | $36.7M | — | 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
Shine1996Elizabeth1998Shakespeare in Love1998Frida2002Finding Nemo2003Intolerable Cruelty2003Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl2003Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End2007Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole2010The King's Speech2010Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides2011Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales2017DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 1.9 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
4.4x
$5.38B worldwide on $1.21B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.76BInternational $3.63B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven27.4x
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 →#3Biggest 10th weekendsThe King's Speech$11.1M#4All-time G domesticFinding Nemo$339.7M#10Biggest 10th weekendsShakespeare in Love$7.9M#13Best multipliersFinding Nemo4.84x
Top 4 of 6 placings across 5 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.
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