Actor
Idris Elba
15 films•2008–2026•Adventure · Action · Thriller
74%average critics81%average audience$147.5Mdomestic average
Films
15
2008–2026
Domestic
$2.21B
lifetime
Worldwide
$6.83B
lifetime
Avg opening
$44.4M
3-day
Avg legs
3.11x
opening → total
Return
4.2x
on $1.64B of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 15 films featuring Idris Elba, from RocknRolla (2008) to Masters of the Universe (2026), together grossing $2.21B domestic and $6.83B worldwide. The biggest hit is Zootopia 2 (2025) at $1.87B worldwide; the biggest opening weekend belongs to The Jungle Book (2016) at $103.3M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Masters of the Universe | 2026 | $29.4M | $64.8M | 2.20x | $113.8M | B | 73% | #22 |
 Sonic the Hedgehog 3 | 2025 | $62.2M | $232.5M | 3.70x | $492.2M | A | 88% | — |
 Zootopia 2 | 2025 | $100.3M | $428.1M | 4.30x | $1.87B | A | 91% | #1 |
 Extraction II | 2023 | — | — | — | — | — | 79% | — |
 Beast | 2022 | $11.6M | $31.8M | 2.80x | $59.2M | B | 57% | #44 |
 Sonic the Hedgehog 2 | 2022 | $72.1M | $190.9M | 2.60x | $403.8M | A | 67% | #9 |
 The Suicide Squad | 2021 | $26.5M | $55.1M | 2.10x | $161.1M | B+ | 90% | #23 |
 Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw | 2019 | $60.0M | $173.8M | 2.90x | $760.7M | A− | 67% | #13 |
 Molly's Game | 2017 | $6.9M | $28.8M | 4.20x | $60.3M | — | 82% | — |
 The Jungle Book | 2016 | $103.3M | $364.0M | 3.53x | $966.6M | A | 95% | #5 |
 Zootopia | 2016 | $75.1M | $341.3M | 4.54x | $1.02B | A | 98% | #7 |
 Pacific Rim | 2013 | $37.3M | $102.0M | 2.73x | $411.0M | A- | 72% | #33 |
 Prometheus | 2012 | $51.1M | $126.0M | 2.48x | $403.0M | B | 73% | #24 |
 Obsessed | 2009 | $28.6M | $68.3M | 2.39x | $74.0M | B+ | 19% | #48 |
 RocknRolla | 2008 | $1.9M | $5.7M | 3.00x | $27.8M | — | 60% | — |
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 1.3 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
4.2x
$6.83B worldwide on $1.64B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $2.21BInternational $4.61B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven13.6x
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 →#9Fastest to $1B worldwideZootopia 217 days#10Biggest worldwide runsZootopia 2$1.87B#10Biggest 6th weekendsZootopia 2$19.4M#19Best multipliersZootopia4.54x#21Biggest 5th weekendsZootopia$19.3M
Top 5 of 10 placings across 9 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
Series
Studios
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
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