Actor
Marlon Wayans
8 films•2000–2025•Comedy · Drama · Horror
51%average critics68%average audience$70.6Mdomestic average
Films
8
2000–2025
Domestic
$564.5M
lifetime
Worldwide
$919.3M
lifetime
Avg opening
$19.8M
3-day
Avg legs
3.30x
opening → total
Return
2.9x
on $320.5M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 8 films featuring Marlon Wayans, from Requiem for a Dream (2000) to Him (2025), together grossing $564.5M domestic and $919.3M worldwide. The biggest hit is Scary Movie (2000) at $278.0M worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $42.3M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Him | 2025 | $13.3M | $25.0M | 1.90x | $27.8M | C- | 30% | — |
 Air | 2023 | $14.5M | $52.5M | 3.60x | $90.0M | A | 92% | #48 |
 Respect | 2021 | $8.8M | $24.3M | 2.76x | $32.1M | A | 63% | #43 |
 The Heat | 2013 | $39.1M | $160.0M | 4.08x | $230.0M | A- | 66% | #15 |
 White Chicks | 2004 | $19.7M | $70.8M | 3.60x | $113.0M | B+ | 15% | #40 |
 Scary Movie 2 | 2001 | $20.5M | $71.3M | 3.48x | $141.0M | B | 13% | #32 |
 Requiem for a Dream | 2000 | $65K | $3.6M | 56.1x | $7.4M | — | 80% | — |
 Scary Movie | 2000 | $42.3M | $157.0M | 3.71x | $278.0M | B- | 52% | #9 |
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 3.6 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
2.9x
$919.3M worldwide on $320.5M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $564.5MInternational $354.8M
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven14.6x
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.
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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