Director
George Miller
6 films•1979–2024•Adventure · Action · Sci-Fi
81%average critics76%average audience$85.9Mdomestic average
Films
6
1979–2024
Domestic
$515.6M
lifetime
Worldwide
$1.12B
lifetime
Avg opening
$22.8M
3-day
Avg legs
4.63x
opening → total
Return
2.0x
on $555.0M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 6 films directed by George Miller, from Mad Max (1979) to Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024), together grossing $515.6M domestic and $1.12B worldwide. The biggest hit is Happy Feet (2006) at $384.0M worldwide; the biggest opening weekend belongs to Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) at $45.4M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga | 2024 | $26.3M | $67.5M | 2.60x | $174.4M | A | 87% | #33 |
| Mad Max: Fury Road | 2015 | $45.4M | $153.6M | 3.38x | $380.5M | A- | 97% | #22 |
| Happy Feet Two | 2011 | $21.2M | $64.0M | 3.01x | $159.0M | B+ | 45% | — |
| Happy Feet | 2006 | $41.5M | $198.0M | 4.77x | $384.0M | A- | 76% | #7 |
 The Road Warrior | 1981 | $2.5M | $23.7M | 9.40x | $23.7M | — | 93% | — |
 Mad Max | 1979 | — | $8.8M | — | — | — | 89% | — |
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 9.0 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
2.0x
$1.12B worldwide on $555.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $506.8MInternational $614.8M
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven11.8x
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.
What’s next
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