Director
Jon M. Chu
9 films•2008–2025•Drama · Romance · Music
64%average critics76%average audience$153.8Mdomestic average
Films
9
2008–2025
Domestic
$1.38B
lifetime
Worldwide
$2.69B
lifetime
Avg opening
$47.2M
3-day
Avg legs
3.32x
opening → total
Return
4.0x
on $665.5M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 9 films directed by Jon M. Chu, from Step Up 2 the Streets (2008) to Wicked: For Good (2025), together grossing $1.38B domestic and $2.69B worldwide. The biggest hit is Wicked (2025) at $758.8M worldwide; the biggest opening weekend belongs to Wicked: For Good (2025) at $147.0M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Wicked | 2025 | $112.5M | $475.0M | 4.20x | $758.8M | A | 91% | — |
 Wicked: For Good | 2025 | $147.0M | $342.9M | 2.33x | $533.8M | A | 68% | #6 |
 In the Heights | 2021 | $11.4M | $30.0M | 2.60x | $45.2M | A | 94% | #38 |
 Crazy Rich Asians | 2018 | $26.5M | $174.5M | 6.58x | $238.5M | A | 91% | #18 |
 Now You See Me 2 | 2016 | $22.4M | $65.1M | 2.91x | $328.3M | A- | 64% | #48 |
 G.I. Joe: Retaliation | 2013 | $40.5M | $123.0M | 3.03x | $376.0M | A- | 29% | #24 |
 Justin Bieber: Never Say Never | 2011 | $29.5M | $73.0M | 2.47x | $99.0M | — | 66% | #49 |
 Step Up 3D | 2010 | $15.8M | $42.4M | 2.68x | $159.0M | B+ | 47% | — |
 Step Up 2 the Streets | 2008 | $18.9M | $58.0M | 3.07x | $151.0M | A- | 29% | — |
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 2.1 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
4.0x
$2.69B worldwide on $665.5M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.38BInternational $1.31B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven8.6x
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 →#7Biggest PG openingsWicked: For Good$147.0M#8Biggest 6th weekendsWicked$19.7M#10All-time PG domesticWicked$475.0M#17Biggest second weekendsWicked$81.2M#36Biggest opening weekendsWicked: For Good$147.0M
Top 5 of 7 placings across 6 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
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.