Actor
John TravoltaFollow
31 films•1976–2012•Drama · Crime · Comedy
Avg critics50%
Avg audience60%
Avg domestic$72.9M
Domestic
$2.261B
Lifetime
Worldwide
$3.552B
Lifetime
Avg opening
$14.8M
3-day
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Wild Hogs | 2007 | $39.7M | $168.0M | 4.24x | $254.0M | B+ | 14% | #13 |
 Grease | 1978 | $8.9M | $160.0M | 17.9x | — | — | 65% | — |
 Look Who's Talking | 1989 | $12.1M | $140.1M | 11.6x | $297.1M | — | 56% | — |
 Hairspray | 2007 | $27.5M | $119.0M | 4.30x | $204.0M | A | 92% | #24 |
 Bolt | 2008 | $26.2M | $114.0M | 4.35x | $310.0M | A- | 90% | #22 |
 Face/Off | 1997 | $23.4M | $112.3M | 4.80x | $241.2M | — | 93% | — |
 Phenomenon | 1996 | $24.5M | $104.6M | 4.30x | $152.0M | — | 49% | — |
 The General's Daughter | 1999 | $22.3M | $102.7M | 4.60x | $149.7M | — | 22% | — |
 Pulp Fiction | 1994 | $9.3M | $102.0M | 10.9x | $214.0M | B+ | 92% | — |
 Michael | 1996 | $17.4M | $95.3M | 5.50x | $119.7M | — | 37% | — |
 Saturday Night Fever | 1977 | $3.9M | $94.2M | 24.3x | $237.1M | — | 82% | — |
 Ladder 49 | 2004 | $22.1M | $74.5M | 3.37x | $102.0M | A- | 40% | #37 |
 Get Shorty | 1995 | $12.7M | $72.0M | 5.70x | $115.0M | — | 89% | — |
 Broken Arrow | 1996 | $15.6M | $70.6M | 4.50x | $148.3M | B+ | 53% | — |
 Swordfish | 2001 | $18.1M | $69.8M | 3.85x | $147.0M | B | 27% | #35 |
 The Taking of Pelham 123 | 2009 | $23.4M | $65.5M | 2.80x | $150.0M | B+ | 51% | — |
 Staying Alive | 1983 | $12.1M | $63.8M | 5.30x | $126.0M | — | 3% | — |
 A Civil Action | 1998 | $70K | $56.7M | 3.70x | — | B | 65% | — |
 Be Cool | 2005 | $23.5M | $56.0M | 2.39x | $94.9M | B- | 29% | #49 |
 Old Dogs | 2009 | $16.9M | $49.5M | 2.90x | $95.1M | — | 5% | — |
 Savages | 2012 | $16.0M | $47.3M | 3.00x | $82.5M | C+ | 50% | — |
 Urban Cowboy | 1980 | — | $46.9M | — | — | — | 71% | — |
 Look Who's Talking Too | 1990 | $8.1M | $46.6M | 5.80x | — | B | 13% | — |
 Domestic Disturbance | 2001 | $14.0M | $45.2M | 3.20x | $54.2M | — | 23% | — |
 Primary Colors | 1998 | $12.0M | $39.0M | 3.20x | $52.1M | B | 80% | — |
 The Punisher | 2004 | $13.8M | $33.7M | 2.40x | $54.5M | — | 30% | — |
 Basic | 2003 | $11.5M | $26.6M | 2.30x | $42.6M | — | 21% | — |
 Carrie | 1976 | — | $25.9M | — | $25.9M | — | 94% | — |
 From Paris with Love | 2010 | $8.2M | $24.1M | 3.00x | $53.1M | — | 37% | — |
 Battlefield Earth | 2000 | $11.5M | $21.5M | 1.90x | $29.7M | — | 3% | — |
 Blow Out | 1981 | $3.0M | $13.7M | 4.60x | — | — | 88% | — |
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
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DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 1.2 years
Profitability
Return on budget
2.2x
$2.898B worldwide on $1.302B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs international split
Domestic $1.608BInternational $1.290B
Return by film
Worldwide ÷ budget0x2.5x breakeven26.8x
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, and streaming releases with no real theatrical run, are left out of this section entirely, including from the totals, rather than counted as zero.
Records held
All records#9Biggest April openingsMichael$97.2M#9Best second-weekend holds ($20M+ openers)Bolt+1.4%#14Biggest 5th weekendsMichael$20.6M#20Longest runs of $1M+ daysMichael—
4 placings across 4 all-time charts. Where a film places on the same chart in consecutive weekends, only its best placing is shown.
What’s next
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Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
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