Actor
Jack Black
25 films•1996–2026•Comedy · Adventure · Action
63%average critics69%average audience$167.3Mdomestic average
Films
25
1996–2026
Domestic
$4.18B
lifetime
Worldwide
$10.35B
lifetime
Avg opening
$44.1M
3-day
Avg legs
4.04x
opening → total
Return
4.9x
on $2.13B of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 25 films featuring Jack Black, from The Cable Guy (1996) to The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026), together grossing $4.18B domestic and $10.35B worldwide. The biggest hit is The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) at $1.36B worldwide; the biggest opening weekend belongs to A Minecraft Movie (2025) at $162.8M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Jumanji: Open World | 2026 | — | — | — | — | — | 0% | — |
 The Super Mario Galaxy Movie | 2026 | $131.7M | $429.8M | 3.30x | $1.01B | A- | 41% | #4 |
 A Minecraft Movie | 2025 | $162.8M | $424.1M | 2.60x | $961.0M | B+ | 53% | #2 |
 Anaconda | 2025 | $14.5M | $65.1M | 4.50x | $135.0M | B | 48% | #35 |
 Borderlands | 2024 | $8.6M | $15.5M | 1.80x | $32.9M | D+ | 10% | — |
 Kung Fu Panda 4 | 2024 | $58.3M | $193.6M | 3.30x | $547.7M | A- | 71% | #12 |
 The Super Mario Bros. Movie | 2023 | $146.4M | $574.9M | 3.90x | $1.36B | A | 59% | #2 |
 Jumanji: The Next Level | 2019 | $59.3M | $316.8M | 5.35x | $792.5M | A- | 72% | #10 |
 The House with a Clock in Its Walls | 2018 | $26.6M | $68.5M | 2.58x | $131.5M | B+ | 65% | #46 |
 Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie | 2017 | $23.9M | $73.9M | 3.09x | $126.4M | B+ | 83% | #43 |
 Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle | 2017 | $36.2M | $404.5M | 11.2x | $962.5M | A | 76% | #4 |
 Kung Fu Panda 3 | 2016 | $41.3M | $143.5M | 3.47x | $521.0M | A | 87% | #20 |
 Kung Fu Panda 2 | 2011 | $47.7M | $165.0M | 3.47x | $666.0M | A | 82% | #15 |
 Gulliver's Travels | 2010 | $6.3M | $42.8M | 6.78x | $237.0M | B- | 19% | — |
 Kung Fu Panda | 2008 | $60.2M | $216.0M | 3.58x | $632.0M | A- | 87% | #6 |
 Tropic Thunder | 2008 | $25.8M | $111.0M | 4.28x | $196.0M | B | 82% | #23 |
 Nacho Libre | 2006 | $28.3M | $80.2M | 2.83x | $99.3M | B+ | 39% | #29 |
 The Holiday | 2006 | $12.8M | $63.2M | 4.95x | $205.0M | — | 51% | #45 |
 King Kong | 2005 | $50.1M | $218.0M | 4.35x | $557.0M | A- | 84% | #5 |
 Shark Tale | 2004 | $47.6M | $161.0M | 3.38x | $375.0M | A- | 35% | #11 |
 School of Rock | 2003 | $19.6M | $81.3M | 4.14x | $131.0M | A- | 92% | #37 |
 Ice Age | 2002 | $46.3M | $176.0M | 3.81x | $383.0M | A | 76% | #9 |
 Shallow Hal | 2001 | $22.5M | $70.8M | 3.15x | $141.0M | C+ | 49% | #34 |
 High Fidelity | 2000 | $6.4M | $27.3M | 4.20x | $47.9M | — | 91% | — |
 The Cable Guy | 1996 | $19.8M | $60.2M | 3.00x | $102.8M | — | 56% | — |
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 1.2 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
4.9x
$10.35B worldwide on $2.13B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $4.18BInternational $6.17B
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 →#3All-time PG domesticThe Super Mario Bros. Movie$574.9M#4Biggest PG openingsA Minecraft Movie$162.7M#4Biggest animated openingsThe Super Mario Bros. Movie$146.4M#6Biggest 4th weekendsThe Super Mario Bros. Movie$40.8M#7Best multipliersJumanji: The Next Level5.35x#7Biggest animated openingsThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie$131.7M#12Biggest PG openingsThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie$131.7M#13Biggest 9th weekendsJumanji: Welcome to the Jungle$7.9M#15All-time PG domesticThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie$429.8M#17All-time PG domesticA Minecraft Movie$424.1M
Top 10 of 23 placings across 14 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
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
