Actor
Heath Ledger
7 films•1999–2008•Drama · Action · Romance
71%average critics73%average audience$128.1Mdomestic average
Films
7
1999–2008
Domestic
$896.6M
lifetime
Worldwide
$1.73B
lifetime
Avg opening
$32.6M
3-day
Avg legs
6.68x
opening → total
Return
3.6x
on $479.0M of budget
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 The Dark Knight | 2008 | $158.0M | $536.6M | 3.40x | $1.01B | A | 94% | #1 |
 The Patriot | 2000 | $22.4M | $113.0M | 5.06x | $215.0M | A | 62% | #18 |
 Brokeback Mountain | 2005 | $5.8M | $83.0M | 14.3x | $178.0M | — | 88% | #23 |
 A Knight's Tale | 2001 | $16.5M | $56.6M | 3.43x | $117.0M | B+ | 59% | #45 |
 10 Things I Hate About You | 1999 | $8.3M | $38.2M | 4.60x | $60.4M | — | 72% | — |
 The Brothers Grimm | 2005 | $15.1M | $37.9M | 2.50x | $105.0M | C | 38% | — |
 Monster's Ball | 2001 | $2.3M | $31.3M | 13.5x | $45.0M | — | 85% | — |
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 1.5 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
3.6x
$1.73B worldwide on $479.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $896.6MInternational $833.8M
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven12.7x
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 →#7Biggest July openingsThe Dark Knight$158.4M#9Biggest superhero filmsThe Dark Knight$533.3M#15All-time PG-13 domesticThe Dark Knight$533.3M
Top 3 of 6 placings across 6 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
Studios
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
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