Actor
Gerard Butler
21 films•2000–2026•Action · Adventure · Thriller
50%average critics72%average audience$87.7Mdomestic average
Films
21
2000–2026
Domestic
$1.84B
lifetime
Worldwide
$4.62B
lifetime
Avg opening
$26.4M
3-day
Avg legs
3.72x
opening → total
Return
3.2x
on $1.46B of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 21 films featuring Gerard Butler, from Pokémon the Movie 2000 (2000) to Greenland 2: Migration (2026), together grossing $1.84B domestic and $4.62B worldwide. The biggest hit is How to Train Your Dragon (2025) at $636.4M worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $84.6M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Greenland 2: Migration | 2026 | $8.4M | $17.8M | 2.10x | $44.8M | B- | 49% | #50 |
 Den of Thieves 2: Pantera | 2025 | $15.0M | $36.0M | 2.40x | $58.4M | B+ | 63% | #52 |
| Den of Thieves: Pantera | 2025 | $15.0M | $36.0M | 2.40x | $58.0M | B+ | 62% | — |
 How to Train Your Dragon | 2025 | $84.6M | $263.0M | 3.20x | $636.4M | A | 77% | #10 |
 Greenland | 2020 | — | — | — | $40.6M | — | 78% | — |
 Angel Has Fallen | 2019 | $21.4M | $69.0M | 3.20x | $147.0M | A- | 38% | #41 |
 How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World | 2019 | $55.0M | $160.8M | 2.92x | $524.0M | A | 90% | #16 |
 London Has Fallen | 2016 | $21.6M | $62.5M | 2.90x | $195.2M | — | 28% | — |
 How to Train Your Dragon 2 | 2014 | $49.5M | $177.0M | 3.58x | $614.6M | A | 92% | #17 |
 Olympus Has Fallen | 2013 | $30.4M | $98.9M | 3.26x | $170.0M | A- | 49% | #35 |
 How to Train Your Dragon | 2010 | $43.7M | $218.0M | 4.98x | $495.0M | A | 99% | #9 |
 The Bounty Hunter | 2010 | $20.7M | $67.1M | 3.24x | $136.0M | B- | 13% | #48 |
 Law Abiding Citizen | 2009 | $21.0M | $73.4M | 3.49x | $128.0M | — | 26% | #44 |
 The Ugly Truth | 2009 | $27.6M | $88.9M | 3.22x | $205.0M | A- | 14% | #37 |
 RocknRolla | 2008 | $1.9M | $5.7M | 3.00x | $27.8M | — | 60% | — |
 300 | 2007 | $70.9M | $211.0M | 2.97x | $456.0M | A- | 61% | #10 |
 P.S. I Love You | 2007 | $6.5M | $53.7M | 8.28x | $157.0M | A- | 25% | #46 |
 The Phantom of the Opera | 2004 | $4.6M | $51.3M | 11.3x | $155.0M | A | 32% | — |
 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life | 2003 | $21.8M | $65.7M | 3.01x | $160.0M | — | 24% | #46 |
 Reign of Fire | 2002 | $15.6M | $43.1M | 2.75x | $82.2M | — | 42% | — |
 Pokémon the Movie 2000 | 2000 | $19.6M | $43.8M | 2.24x | $134.0M | A- | 19% | — |
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
Pokémon the Movie 20002000Reign of Fire2002Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life2003The Phantom of the Opera20043002007P.S. I Love You2007RocknRolla2008Law Abiding Citizen2009The Ugly Truth2009How to Train Your Dragon2010The Bounty Hunter2010Olympus Has Fallen2013How to Train Your Dragon 22014London Has Fallen2016Angel Has Fallen2019How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World2019Greenland2020Den of Thieves 2: Pantera2025Den of Thieves: Pantera2025How to Train Your Dragon2025Greenland 2: Migration2026DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 1.3 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
3.2x
$4.62B worldwide on $1.46B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.84BInternational $2.78B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven7.0x
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 →1 placing across 1 all-time chart. 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.
