Actor
Matthew Broderick
9 films•1986–2023•Comedy · Drama · Adventure
64%average critics64%average audience$102.2Mdomestic average
Films
9
1986–2023
Domestic
$919.4M
lifetime
Worldwide
$2.12B
lifetime
Avg opening
$23.6M
3-day
Avg legs
5.17x
opening → total
Return
3.6x
on $595.0M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 9 films featuring Matthew Broderick, from Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) to No Hard Feelings (2023), together grossing $919.4M domestic and $2.12B worldwide. The biggest hit is The Lion King (1994) at $979.0M worldwide; the biggest opening weekend belongs to Godzilla (1998) at $44.0M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 No Hard Feelings | 2023 | $15.0M | $50.5M | 3.40x | $87.3M | A | 88% | #50 |
 Tower Heist | 2011 | $24.0M | $78.0M | 3.25x | $153.0M | B | 67% | #42 |
 Bee Movie | 2007 | $38.0M | $127.0M | 3.33x | $294.0M | B+ | 49% | #21 |
 The Stepford Wives | 2004 | $21.4M | $59.5M | 2.78x | $96.2M | C+ | 25% | #49 |
 Godzilla | 1998 | $44.0M | $136.3M | 3.10x | $376.0M | — | 20% | — |
 The Cable Guy | 1996 | $19.8M | $60.2M | 3.00x | $102.8M | — | 56% | — |
 The Lion King | 1994 | $40.9M | $311.0M | 7.61x | $979.0M | A+ | 92% | — |
 Glory | 1989 | $3.0M | $26.8M | 8.90x | $26.8M | — | 95% | — |
 Ferris Bueller's Day Off | 1986 | $6.3M | $70.1M | 11.2x | — | — | 85% | — |
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 4.6 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
3.6x
$2.12B worldwide on $595.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $849.3MInternational $1.27B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven21.8x
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 →#1Biggest PG openingsThe Lion King$191.8M#2All-time G domesticThe Lion King$422.8M#4All-time PG domesticThe Lion King$543.6M
Top 3 of 9 placings across 8 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
Studios
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.