Actor
Jodie Foster
9 films•1976–2013•Drama · Crime · Mystery
72%average critics72%average audience$86.6Mdomestic average
Films
9
1976–2013
Domestic
$779.7M
lifetime
Worldwide
$1.68B
lifetime
Avg opening
$17.7M
3-day
Avg legs
4.29x
opening → total
Return
3.7x
on $403.9M of budget
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | — | $131.1M | — | $273.1M | — | 95% | — |
 Maverick | 1994 | $17.2M | $101.6M | 5.90x | $183.0M | A- | 67% | — |
 Contact | 1997 | $20.6M | $100.9M | 4.90x | $165.9M | — | 69% | — |
 Panic Room | 2002 | $30.1M | $96.4M | 3.21x | $196.0M | B | 76% | #25 |
 Elysium | 2013 | $29.8M | $93.1M | 3.12x | $286.0M | B | 64% | #38 |
 Flightplan | 2005 | $24.6M | $89.7M | 3.64x | $223.0M | A | 36% | #21 |
 Inside Man | 2006 | $29.0M | $88.5M | 3.06x | $186.0M | B+ | 86% | #22 |
 Sommersby | 1993 | $8.1M | $50.1M | 6.20x | $140.1M | A- | 63% | — |
 Taxi Driver | 1976 | — | $28.3M | — | $28.5M | — | 89% | — |
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 4.6 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
3.7x
$1.50B worldwide on $403.9M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $678.1MInternational $820.5M
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven15.0x
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.
What’s next
Full schedule →No upcoming movies announced yet.
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Studios
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
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