Director
Gore Verbinski
7 films•2001–2013•Adventure · Action · Fantasy
60%average critics63%average audience$206.4Mdomestic average
Films
7
2001–2013
Domestic
$1.45B
lifetime
Worldwide
$3.59B
lifetime
Avg opening
$57.1M
3-day
Avg legs
4.37x
opening → total
Return
3.2x
on $1.12B of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 7 films directed by Gore Verbinski, from The Mexican (2001) to The Lone Ranger (2013), together grossing $1.45B domestic and $3.59B worldwide. The biggest hit is Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) at $1.07B worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $136.0M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 The Lone Ranger | 2013 | $29.2M | $89.3M | 3.06x | $261.0M | B+ | 31% | #40 |
 Rango | 2011 | $38.1M | $123.0M | 3.24x | $246.0M | C+ | 88% | #22 |
 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | 2007 | $115.0M | $309.0M | 2.70x | $961.0M | A- | 43% | #4 |
 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | 2006 | $136.0M | $423.0M | 3.12x | $1.07B | A- | 53% | #1 |
 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | 2003 | $46.6M | $305.0M | 6.55x | $654.0M | A | 79% | #3 |
 The Ring | 2002 | $15.0M | $129.0M | 8.60x | $249.0M | B- | 72% | #17 |
 The Mexican | 2001 | $20.1M | $66.8M | 3.32x | $148.0M | C | 54% | #36 |
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 2.0 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
3.2x
$3.59B worldwide on $1.12B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.45BInternational $2.14B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven5.2x
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 →#44Biggest domestic runsPirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest$423.3M#46Biggest opening weekendsPirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest$135.6M#48Biggest worldwide runsPirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest$1.07B
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
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
