Director
John Glen
5 films•1981–1989•Adventure · Action · Thriller
60%average critics56%average audience$51.8Mdomestic average
Films
5
1981–1989
Domestic
$258.9M
lifetime
Worldwide
$882.8M
lifetime
Avg opening
$9.8M
3-day
Avg legs
5.60x
opening → total
Return
5.3x
on $167.5M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 5 films directed by John Glen, from For Your Eyes Only (1981) to Licence to Kill (1989), together grossing $258.9M domestic and $882.8M worldwide. The biggest hit is For Your Eyes Only (1981) at $195.3M worldwide; the biggest opening weekend belongs to A View to a Kill (1985) at $13.3M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Octopussy | 1983 | $8.9M | $67.9M | 7.60x | $187.5M | — | 41% | — |
| For Your Eyes Only | 1981 | $6.8M | $54.8M | 8.00x | $195.3M | — | 69% | — |
| The Living Daylights | 1987 | $11.1M | $51.2M | 4.60x | $191.2M | — | 75% | — |
| A View to a Kill | 1985 | $13.3M | $50.3M | 3.80x | $152.6M | — | 36% | — |
 Licence to Kill | 1989 | $8.8M | $34.7M | 4.00x | $156.2M | — | 79% | — |
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 2.0 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
5.3x
$882.8M worldwide on $167.5M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $258.9MInternational $623.9M
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven7.0x
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
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Connected
Series
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.