Director
George Lucas
4 films•1977–2005•Action · Adventure · Fantasy
72%average critics69%average audience$418.4Mdomestic average
Films
4
1977–2005
Domestic
$1.67B
lifetime
Worldwide
$3.38B
lifetime
Avg opening
$63.6M
3-day
Avg legs
4.68x
opening → total
Return
9.6x
on $354.0M of budget
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | 1999 | $64.8M | $487.6M | 6.65x | $1.05B | A- | 54% | — |
 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope | 1977 | $1.6M | $461.0M | — | $775.4M | — | 93% | — |
 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith | 2005 | $108.0M | $414.4M | 3.51x | $902.9M | — | 79% | #1 |
 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones | 2002 | $80.0M | $310.7M | 3.88x | $656.7M | — | 62% | #3 |
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
0$500M$1B
DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 9.3 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
9.6x
$3.38B worldwide on $354.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.67BInternational $1.71B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven18.2x
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 →#2Best multipliersStar Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace6.65x#3Best second-weekend holds ($50M+ openers)Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace−20.7%#3Biggest original filmsStar Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope$460.9M#5Longest runs of $1M+ daysStar Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace—#16Biggest May openingsStar Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith$108.4M
Top 5 of 7 placings across 7 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.
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Series
Studios
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.