Actor
John Cusack
10 films•1994–2013•Comedy · Drama · Crime
71%average critics70%average audience$70.0Mdomestic average
Films
10
1994–2013
Domestic
$700.0M
lifetime
Worldwide
$1.70B
lifetime
Avg opening
$19.6M
3-day
Avg legs
3.70x
opening → total
Return
3.4x
on $502.0M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 10 films featuring John Cusack, from Bullets Over Broadway (1994) to The Butler (2013), together grossing $700.0M domestic and $1.70B worldwide. The biggest hit is 2012 (2009) at $770.0M worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $65.2M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 The Butler | 2013 | $24.6M | $117.0M | 4.73x | $177.0M | A | 72% | #28 |
 Hot Tub Time Machine | 2010 | $14.0M | $50.3M | 3.60x | $66.0M | — | 64% | — |
 2012 | 2009 | $65.2M | $166.0M | 2.55x | $770.0M | B+ | 40% | #15 |
 1408 | 2007 | $20.6M | $72.0M | 3.49x | $133.0M | B- | 80% | #37 |
 America's Sweethearts | 2001 | $30.2M | $93.6M | 3.10x | $138.0M | B | 33% | #23 |
 High Fidelity | 2000 | $6.4M | $27.3M | 4.20x | $47.9M | — | 91% | — |
 Being John Malkovich | 1999 | $638K | $22.9M | 35.8x | $32.4M | — | 94% | — |
 The Thin Red Line | 1998 | $9.8M | $36.4M | 3.70x | $98.1M | — | 80% | — |
 Con Air | 1997 | $24.1M | $101.1M | 4.20x | $224.1M | — | 59% | — |
 Bullets Over Broadway | 1994 | $86K | $13.4M | — | $13.4M | — | 95% | — |
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 2.1 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
3.4x
$1.69B worldwide on $502.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $686.6MInternational $999.9M
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven5.9x
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.
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.