Director
J.J. Abrams
6 films•2006–2019•Action · Adventure · Sci-Fi
79%average critics83%average audience$366.7Mdomestic average
Films
6
2006–2019
Domestic
$2.20B
lifetime
Worldwide
$4.68B
lifetime
Avg opening
$109.0M
3-day
Avg legs
3.29x
opening → total
Return
3.5x
on $1.35B of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 6 films directed by J.J. Abrams, from Mission: Impossible III (2006) to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019), together grossing $2.20B domestic and $4.68B worldwide. The biggest hit is Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) at $2.10B worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $248.0M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | 2019 | $177.4M | $515.2M | 2.90x | $1.07B | B+ | 51% | #3 |
 Star Wars: The Force Awakens | 2015 | $248.0M | $936.7M | 3.78x | $2.10B | A | 93% | #1 |
 Star Trek Into Darkness | 2013 | $70.2M | $229.0M | 3.26x | $467.0M | A | 84% | #11 |
 Super 8 | 2011 | $35.5M | $127.0M | 3.58x | $260.0M | B+ | 81% | #21 |
 Star Trek | 2009 | $75.2M | $258.0M | 3.43x | $386.0M | A | 94% | #7 |
 Mission: Impossible III | 2006 | $47.7M | $134.0M | 2.81x | $398.0M | A- | 73% | #14 |
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 2.6 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
3.5x
$4.68B worldwide on $1.35B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $2.20BInternational $2.49B
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 →#1Biggest domestic runsStar Wars: The Force Awakens$936.7M#1Biggest second weekendsStar Wars: The Force Awakens$149.2M#1All-time PG-13 domesticStar Wars: The Force Awakens$936.7M#12Biggest single daysStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker$89.6M#14Biggest PG-13 openingsStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker$177.4M#17Biggest opening weekendsStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker$177.4M
Top 6 of 18 placings across 12 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.
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