Director
James Wan
8 films•2010–2023•Horror · Mystery · Thriller
67%average critics69%average audience$150.4Mdomestic average
Films
8
2010–2023
Domestic
$1.20B
lifetime
Worldwide
$4.02B
lifetime
Avg opening
$48.0M
3-day
Avg legs
3.29x
opening → total
Return
6.1x
on $661.5M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 8 films directed by James Wan, from Insidious (2010) to Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023), together grossing $1.20B domestic and $4.02B worldwide. The biggest hit is Furious 7 (2015) at $1.50B worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $147.2M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom | 2023 | $27.7M | $124.5M | 4.50x | $440.2M | A- | 41% | #21 |
 Malignant | 2021 | $5.4M | $13.4M | 2.50x | $34.9M | — | 77% | — |
 Aquaman | 2018 | $67.9M | $335.1M | 4.94x | $1.15B | A- | 64% | #5 |
 The Conjuring 2 | 2016 | $40.3M | $102.5M | 2.55x | $320.1M | A | 80% | #28 |
 Furious 7 | 2015 | $147.2M | $353.0M | 2.40x | $1.50B | A | 82% | #5 |
 Insidious: Chapter 2 | 2013 | $40.3M | $83.6M | 2.08x | $162.0M | B+ | 38% | #42 |
 The Conjuring | 2013 | $41.9M | $137.0M | 3.28x | $319.0M | A- | 86% | #19 |
 Insidious | 2010 | $13.3M | $54.0M | 4.10x | $99.9M | — | 66% | — |
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 1.9 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
6.1x
$4.02B worldwide on $661.5M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.20BInternational $2.82B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven66.6x
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 →#10Fastest to $1B worldwideFurious 717 days#10Best multipliersAquaman4.97x#16Biggest worldwide runsFurious 7$1.52B#35Biggest worldwide runsAquaman$1.15B#35Biggest opening weekendsFurious 7$147.2M
5 placings across 4 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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