Actor
Maggie Gyllenhaal
9 films•2001–2013•Drama · Comedy · Romance
69%average critics72%average audience$96.2Mdomestic average
Films
9
2001–2013
Domestic
$866.1M
lifetime
Worldwide
$1.70B
lifetime
Avg opening
$27.3M
3-day
Avg legs
4.62x
opening → total
Return
3.2x
on $539.0M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 9 films featuring Maggie Gyllenhaal, from Donnie Darko (2001) to White House Down (2013), together grossing $866.1M domestic and $1.70B worldwide. The biggest hit is The Dark Knight (2008) at $1.00B worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $158.0M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 White House Down | 2013 | $24.9M | $73.1M | 2.94x | $205.0M | A- | 52% | #46 |
 Crazy Heart | 2009 | $3.6M | $39.5M | 11.1x | $47.4M | — | 90% | — |
 The Dark Knight | 2008 | $158.0M | $533.0M | 3.37x | $1.00B | A | 94% | #1 |
 Monster House | 2006 | $22.2M | $73.7M | 3.32x | $142.0M | B | 75% | #32 |
 Stranger Than Fiction | 2006 | $13.4M | $40.4M | 3.00x | $53.6M | — | 73% | — |
 Mona Lisa Smile | 2003 | $11.5M | $63.9M | 5.54x | $141.0M | B | 33% | #48 |
 40 Days and 40 Nights | 2002 | $12.2M | $38.0M | 3.10x | $95.1M | A | 40% | — |
 Secretary | 2002 | $182K | $4.0M | 22.2x | $9.4M | — | 78% | — |
 Donnie Darko | 2001 | $110K | $517K | — | $7.5M | — | 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
DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 1.5 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
3.2x
$1.70B worldwide on $539.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $866.1MInternational $834.9M
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven5.6x
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 →#15All-time PG-13 domesticThe Dark Knight$533.3M#20Biggest PG-13 openingsThe Dark Knight$158.4M#21Biggest domestic runsThe Dark Knight$533.3M
Top 3 of 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
Full schedule →No upcoming movies announced yet.
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Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
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