Director
John Lasseter
5 films•1995–2011•Adventure · Animation · Comedy
81%average critics76%average audience$208.9Mdomestic average
Films
5
1995–2011
Domestic
$1.04B
lifetime
Worldwide
$2.31B
lifetime
Avg opening
$49.2M
3-day
Avg legs
4.57x
opening → total
Return
4.1x
on $560.0M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 5 films directed by John Lasseter, from Toy Story (1995) to Cars 2 (2011), together grossing $1.04B domestic and $2.31B worldwide. The biggest hit is Cars 2 (2011) at $560.0M worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $66.1M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Cars 2 | 2011 | $66.1M | $191.0M | 2.89x | $560.0M | A- | 40% | #8 |
 Cars | 2006 | $60.1M | $252.7M | 4.20x | $474.3M | A | 74% | #3 |
 Toy Story 2 | 1999 | $57.4M | $246.0M | 4.28x | $511.0M | A+ | 100% | — |
 A Bug's Life | 1998 | $33.3M | $163.0M | 4.89x | $363.0M | — | 92% | — |
 Toy Story | 1995 | $29.1M | $192.0M | 6.58x | $401.0M | A | 100% | — |
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 4.0 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
4.1x
$2.31B worldwide on $560.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.04BInternational $1.26B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven13.4x
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 →#7All-time G domesticToy Story 2$245.9M#8All-time G domesticCars$244.1M#9All-time G domesticToy Story$229.9M#11Biggest 7th weekendsToy Story 2$12.4M#15All-time G domesticCars 2$191.5M#18All-time G domesticA Bug's Life$162.8M#19Biggest 6th weekendsToy Story$15.6M
7 placings across 3 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.
Connected
Series
Studios
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
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