Actor
James Franco
13 films•1 as director•2002–2018•Action · Drama · Comedy
76%average critics70%average audience$144.1Mdomestic average
Films
13
2002–2018
Domestic
$1.87B
lifetime
Worldwide
$4.04B
lifetime
Avg opening
$43.6M
3-day
Avg legs
3.97x
opening → total
Return
3.6x
on $1.12B of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 13 films credited to James Franco, 1 as director and 13 in the cast, from Spider-Man (2002) to The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), together grossing $1.87B domestic and $4.04B worldwide. The biggest hit is Spider-Man 3 (2007) at $886.0M worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $151.0M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 The Ballad of Buster Scruggs | 2018 | — | — | — | — | — | 90% | — |
 The Disaster Artist | 2017 | $6.4M | $21.1M | 3.30x | $28.7M | — | 90% | — |
 The Interview | 2014 | $1.8M | $6.1M | 3.40x | $12.3M | — | 51% | — |
 Oz the Great and Powerful | 2013 | $79.1M | $235.0M | 2.97x | $493.0M | B+ | 56% | #10 |
 This Is the End | 2013 | $20.7M | $101.0M | 4.90x | $127.0M | B+ | 82% | #34 |
 Rise of the Planet of the Apes | 2011 | $54.8M | $177.0M | 3.23x | $482.0M | A- | 82% | #11 |
 127 Hours | 2010 | $2.1M | $18.3M | 8.60x | $60.2M | — | 93% | — |
 Eat Pray Love | 2010 | $23.1M | $80.6M | 3.49x | $205.0M | A | 34% | #42 |
 Milk | 2008 | $1.5M | $31.8M | 21.5x | $57.3M | — | 93% | — |
 Pineapple Express | 2008 | $23.2M | $87.3M | 3.76x | $102.0M | B+ | 68% | #35 |
 Spider-Man 3 | 2007 | $151.0M | $337.0M | 2.23x | $886.0M | B+ | 62% | #1 |
 Spider-Man 2 | 2004 | $88.2M | $374.0M | 4.24x | $786.0M | A- | 93% | #2 |
 Spider-Man | 2002 | $115.0M | $404.0M | 3.52x | $805.0M | A- | 90% | #1 |
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
3.6x
$4.04B worldwide on $1.12B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.87BInternational $2.17B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven5.8x
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 →2 placings across 2 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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