Actor
James McAvoy
13 films•2006–2024•Action · Thriller · Adventure
68%average critics73%average audience$111.9Mdomestic average
Films
13
2006–2024
Domestic
$1.45B
lifetime
Worldwide
$3.79B
lifetime
Avg opening
$40.5M
3-day
Avg legs
3.49x
opening → total
Return
3.7x
on $1.03B of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 13 films featuring James McAvoy, from The Last King of Scotland (2006) to Speak No Evil (2024), together grossing $1.45B domestic and $3.79B worldwide. The biggest hit is X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) at $747.9M worldwide; the biggest opening weekend belongs to It: Chapter Two (2019) at $91.1M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Speak No Evil | 2024 | $11.4M | $36.9M | 3.20x | $77.2M | B+ | 85% | #43 |
 Glass | 2019 | $40.3M | $111.0M | 2.75x | $247.0M | B | 37% | #25 |
 It: Chapter Two | 2019 | $91.1M | $211.6M | 2.32x | $473.1M | B+ | 62% | #11 |
 X-Men: Dark Phoenix | 2019 | $32.8M | $65.9M | 2.01x | $252.0M | B- | 22% | #44 |
 Atomic Blonde | 2017 | $18.3M | $51.6M | 2.80x | $98.3M | — | 79% | — |
 Split | 2017 | $40.0M | $138.3M | 3.46x | $278.8M | A | 79% | #23 |
 X-Men: Apocalypse | 2016 | $65.8M | $155.4M | 2.36x | $543.9M | A- | 47% | #17 |
 X-Men: Days of Future Past | 2014 | $90.8M | $233.9M | 2.58x | $747.9M | A | 90% | #9 |
 Gnomeo & Juliet | 2011 | $25.4M | $100.0M | 3.94x | $194.0M | B+ | 55% | #30 |
 X-Men: First Class | 2011 | $55.1M | $146.0M | 2.66x | $353.0M | B+ | 86% | #17 |
 Wanted | 2008 | $50.9M | $135.0M | 2.64x | $342.0M | B+ | 71% | #18 |
 Atonement | 2007 | $4.6M | $50.9M | 11.1x | $129.0M | — | 83% | #49 |
 The Last King of Scotland | 2006 | $143K | $17.6M | — | $49.2M | — | 87% | — |
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 1.5 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
3.7x
$3.79B worldwide on $1.03B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.45BInternational $2.33B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven31.0x
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 →#2Biggest horror openingsIt: Chapter Two$91.1M#8Biggest R openingsIt: Chapter Two$91.1M#20All-time R domesticIt: Chapter Two$211.6M
3 placings across 3 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.