John Gielgud
Actor

John Gielgud

5 films1974–1998Drama · Biography · History
88%average critics86%average audience$37.8Mdomestic average
Films
5
1974–1998
Domestic
$189.2M
lifetime
Worldwide
$144.9M
lifetime
Avg opening
$694K
3-day
Avg legs
8.90x
opening → total
Return
6.0x
on $10.5M of budget

Filmography

FilmYearOpeningDomesticLegsWorldwideCinemaScoreRTYearly rank
Chariots of FirePG · 2h 5m1981$69K$61.6M893.4x84%
ShinePG-13 · 1h 45m1996$35.8M$36.7M91%
Murder on the Orient ExpressPG · 2h 8m1974$35.7M89%
ElizabethR · 2h 3m1998$3.4M$30.1M8.90x$82.2M83%
The Elephant ManPG · 2h 4m1980$26.0M$26.0M91%
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 6.0 years

Profitability

Return on Budget
6.0x
$62.7M worldwide on $10.5M of production budget
Budget$10.5M
Domestic$61.8M
Worldwide$62.7M
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
99%DOMESTIC
Domestic $61.8MInternational $0.9M
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven6.7x
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

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