
Actor
Mary McDonnell
4 films•1990–2001•Drama · Adventure · Sci-Fi
81%average critics80%average audience$135.5Mdomestic average
Films
4
1990–2001
Domestic
$541.9M
lifetime
Worldwide
$1.35B
lifetime
Avg opening
$17.5M
3-day
Avg legs
10.2x
opening → total
Return
12.3x
on $101.5M of budget
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independence Day | 1996 | $50.2M | $306.0M | 6.10x | $817.0M | A | 69% | — |
Dances With Wolves | 1990 | $9.5M | $184.0M | 19.4x | $424.0M | — | 87% | — |
Sneakers | 1992 | $10.0M | $51.4M | 5.10x | $105.2M | A- | 80% | — |
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 3.7 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
12.3x
$1.25B worldwide on $101.5M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $490.5MInternational $758.0M
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven19.3x
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 →#3Best multipliersIndependence Day6.10x#7Most weekends in the top 10Dances With Wolves25 weekends#10Biggest original filmsIndependence Day$306.1M#16Best second-weekend holds ($50M+ openers)Independence Day−29.8%#16Biggest grossers never #1Dances With Wolves$184.2M#19Biggest 9th weekendsDances With Wolves$7.3M
Top 6 of 7 placings across 7 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.



