Actor
James Earl Jones
10 films•1982–2019•Drama · Action · Adventure
69%average critics76%average audience$152.2Mdomestic average
Films
10
1982–2019
Domestic
$1.52B
lifetime
Worldwide
$3.91B
lifetime
Avg opening
$33.6M
3-day
Avg legs
6.23x
opening → total
Return
6.2x
on $572.0M of budget
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 The Lion King | 2019 | $191.8M | $543.6M | 2.83x | $1.66B | A | 52% | #2 |
 The Lion King | 1994 | $40.9M | $311.0M | 7.61x | $979.0M | A+ | 92% | — |
 Coming to America | 1988 | $21.4M | $128.2M | 6.00x | $288.8M | — | 71% | — |
 Clear and Present Danger | 1994 | $20.3M | $122.0M | 6.00x | $207.5M | — | 81% | — |
 The Hunt for Red October | 1990 | $17.2M | $120.7M | 7.00x | $200.5M | — | 88% | — |
 Patriot Games | 1992 | $18.5M | $83.3M | 4.50x | $178.1M | A- | 72% | — |
 Field of Dreams | 1989 | $5.4M | $64.5M | 11.9x | $84.5M | — | 88% | — |
 Fantasia 2000 | 2000 | $2.9M | $60.7M | 20.8x | $90.9M | — | 19% | #42 |
 Sommersby | 1993 | $8.1M | $50.1M | 6.20x | $140.1M | A- | 63% | — |
 Conan the Barbarian | 1982 | $9.5M | $38.3M | 4.00x | $79.1M | — | 68% | — |
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 4.1 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
6.2x
$3.54B worldwide on $572.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.33BInternational $2.21B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven13.4x
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 PG openingsThe Lion King$191.8M#2All-time G domesticThe Lion King$422.8M#4All-time PG domesticThe Lion King$543.6M
Top 3 of 9 placings across 8 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.
