Director
James Gunn
5 films•2014–2025•Action · Adventure · Comedy
89%average critics86%average audience$298.2Mdomestic average
Films
5
2014–2025
Domestic
$1.49B
lifetime
Worldwide
$3.27B
lifetime
Avg opening
$102.1M
3-day
Avg legs
2.82x
opening → total
Return
3.1x
on $1.05B of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 5 films directed by James Gunn, from Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) to Superman (2025), together grossing $1.49B domestic and $3.27B worldwide. The biggest hit is Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) at $869.1M worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $146.5M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Superman | 2025 | $125.0M | $354.2M | 2.83x | $618.7M | A- | 86% | #5 |
 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 | 2023 | $118.4M | $358.9M | 3.00x | $845.6M | A | 92% | #4 |
 The Suicide Squad | 2021 | $26.5M | $55.1M | 2.10x | $161.1M | B+ | 90% | #23 |
 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 | 2017 | $146.5M | $389.8M | 2.66x | $869.1M | A | 85% | #5 |
 Guardians of the Galaxy | 2014 | $94.3M | $333.2M | 3.53x | $770.9M | A | 92% | #3 |
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 2.8 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
3.1x
$3.27B worldwide on $1.05B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.49BInternational $1.77B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven4.5x
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 →1 placing across 1 all-time chart. 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
Studios
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
