Director
Joe Russo
7 films•2006–2026•Action · Adventure · Sci-Fi
71%average critics84%average audience$325.8Mdomestic average
Films
7
2006–2026
Domestic
$2.28B
lifetime
Worldwide
$6.85B
lifetime
Avg opening
$130.1M
3-day
Avg legs
2.71x
opening → total
Return
5.1x
on $1.35B of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 7 films directed by Joe Russo, from You, Me and Dupree (2006) to Avengers: Doomsday (2026), together grossing $2.28B domestic and $6.85B worldwide. The biggest hit is Avengers: Endgame (2019) at $2.80B worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $357.1M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Avengers: Doomsday | 2026 | — | — | — | — | — | 0% | — |
 The Gray Man | 2022 | — | — | — | $0.5M | — | 45% | — |
| Avengers: Endgame | 2019 | $357.1M | $858.4M | 2.40x | $2.80B | A+ | 94% | #1 |
| Avengers: Infinity War | 2018 | $257.8M | $678.8M | 2.63x | $2.05B | A | 85% | #2 |
| Captain America: Civil War | 2016 | $179.1M | $408.1M | 2.28x | $1.15B | A | 91% | #3 |
| Captain America: The Winter Soldier | 2014 | $95.0M | $259.8M | 2.73x | $714.4M | A | 90% | #4 |
 You, Me and Dupree | 2006 | $21.5M | $75.6M | 3.51x | $131.0M | — | 21% | #30 |
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 3.3 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
5.1x
$6.85B worldwide on $1.35B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $2.28BInternational $4.57B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven7.9x
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 →#1Fastest to $1B worldwideAvengers: Endgame5 days#2Biggest worldwide runsAvengers: Endgame$2.80B#2Biggest opening weekendsAvengers: Endgame$357.1M#3Fastest to $1B worldwideAvengers: Infinity War11 days#4Biggest opening weekendsAvengers: Infinity War$257.7M#4Biggest second weekendsAvengers: Infinity War$114.8M#13Biggest PG-13 openingsCaptain America: Civil War$179.1M#16Biggest opening weekendsCaptain America: Civil War$179.1M#34Biggest worldwide runsCaptain America: Civil War$1.15B
Top 9 of 26 placings across 10 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.
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Complete SagaThe Avengers vs Age of Ultron vs Infinity War vs EndgameThe complete Avengers arc — four openings, one escalating decade.
Chasing The CrownBrand New Day vs the top 3 all-timeA $360M opening against the three biggest domestic runs ever — The Force Awakens’ $936.7M, Endgame’s $858.4M and No Way Home’s $804.8M.
All-Time RecordsThe Force Awakens vs Endgame vs No Way Home vs AvatarThe four biggest domestic runs ever — $936.7M, $858.4M, $814.8M and $785.2M — raced day by day.