Director
John Woo
5 films•1989–2003•Action · Crime · Thriller
73%average critics71%average audience$76.4Mdomestic average
Films
5
1989–2003
Domestic
$381.8M
lifetime
Worldwide
$904.6M
lifetime
Avg opening
$19.0M
3-day
Avg legs
3.83x
opening → total
Return
3.4x
on $265.0M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 5 films directed by John Woo, from The Killer (1989) to Paycheck (2003), together grossing $381.8M domestic and $904.6M worldwide. The biggest hit is Mission: Impossible II (2000) at $546.0M worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $57.8M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Paycheck | 2003 | $13.5M | $53.8M | 4.00x | $117.0M | A | 27% | — |
 Mission: Impossible II | 2000 | $57.8M | $215.0M | 3.72x | $546.0M | B | 58% | #3 |
 Face/Off | 1997 | $23.4M | $112.3M | 4.80x | $241.2M | — | 93% | — |
 Hard Boiled | 1992 | $138K | $393K | 2.80x | $0.4M | — | 92% | — |
 The Killer | 1989 | — | $302K | — | — | — | 96% | — |
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 3.5 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
3.4x
$904.2M worldwide on $265.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $381.1MInternational $523.1M
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven4.4x
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.
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