Director
James Cameron
10 films•1984–2026•Action · Sci-Fi · Adventure
83%average critics86%average audience$301.4Mdomestic average
Films
10
1984–2026
Domestic
$3.01B
lifetime
Worldwide
$10.24B
lifetime
Avg opening
$41.7M
3-day
Avg legs
6.34x
opening → total
Return
6.9x
on $1.48B of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 10 films directed by James Cameron, from The Terminator (1984) to Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft—The Tour (2026), together grossing $3.01B domestic and $10.24B worldwide. The biggest hit is Avatar (2009) at $2.92B worldwide; the biggest opening weekend belongs to Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) at $134.1M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft—The Tour | 2026 | $7.0M | $9.9M | 1.40x | $9.9M | A | 93% | #63 |
 Avatar: Fire and Ash | 2025 | $89.2M | $404.0M | 4.53x | $1.49B | A | 68% | #4 |
 Avatar: The Way of Water | 2022 | $134.1M | $688.8M | 5.10x | $2.32B | A | 77% | #2 |
 Avatar | 2009 | $77.0M | $785.2M | 9.70x | $2.92B | A | 81% | #1 |
 Titanic | 1997 | $28.6M | $601.0M | 21.0x | $2.26B | A+ | 88% | — |
 True Lies | 1994 | $25.9M | $146.3M | 5.70x | $365.3M | — | 77% | — |
 Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 1991 | $31.8M | $201.0M | 6.33x | $520.0M | A+ | 90% | — |
 The Abyss | 1989 | $9.3M | $55.0M | — | $90.5M | — | 75% | — |
 Aliens | 1986 | $10.1M | $85.2M | 8.50x | $183.3M | — | 93% | — |
 The Terminator | 1984 | $4.0M | $38.0M | 9.50x | $78.0M | — | 90% | — |
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 4.7 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
6.9x
$10.23B worldwide on $1.48B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $3.00BInternational $7.23B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven12.3x
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 worldwide runsAvatar$2.92B#1Best multipliersAvatar9.73x#1Biggest 6th weekendsAvatar$34.9M#1Biggest 8th weekendsTitanic$23.0M#2Most weeks at #1Titanic15 weeks#3Biggest 4th weekendsAvatar: The Way of Water$45.8M#4Biggest worldwide runsAvatar: The Way of Water$2.32B#6Biggest worldwide runsTitanic$2.26B#8Biggest domestic runsAvatar: The Way of Water$688.8M#12Fastest to $1B worldwideAvatar: Fire and Ash18 days
Top 10 of 42 placings across 15 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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