Actor
Michael Caine
12 films•1999–2015•Drama · Comedy · Action
64%average critics73%average audience$147.2Mdomestic average
Films
12
1999–2015
Domestic
$1.77B
lifetime
Worldwide
$4.12B
lifetime
Avg opening
$38.1M
3-day
Avg legs
5.61x
opening → total
Return
3.5x
on $1.18B of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 12 films featuring Michael Caine, from The Cider House Rules (1999) to Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015), together grossing $1.77B domestic and $4.12B 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Kingsman: The Secret Service | 2015 | $36.2M | $128.3M | 3.54x | $404.6M | A- | 75% | #25 |
 Interstellar | 2014 | $47.5M | $188.0M | 3.96x | $642.5M | A- | 73% | #16 |
 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island | 2012 | $27.3M | $104.0M | 3.80x | $335.0M | A- | 45% | #30 |
 Cars 2 | 2011 | $66.1M | $191.0M | 2.89x | $560.0M | A- | 40% | #8 |
 Gnomeo & Juliet | 2011 | $25.4M | $100.0M | 3.94x | $194.0M | B+ | 55% | #30 |
 The Dark Knight | 2008 | $158.0M | $533.0M | 3.37x | $1.00B | A | 94% | #1 |
 Children of Men | 2006 | $501K | $35.6M | 71.0x | $69.8M | — | 92% | — |
 The Prestige | 2006 | $14.8M | $53.1M | 3.60x | $104.4M | — | 76% | — |
 Batman Begins | 2005 | $48.7M | $205.0M | 4.21x | $373.0M | A | 85% | #8 |
 Bewitched | 2005 | $20.1M | $63.3M | 3.15x | $131.0M | C+ | 23% | #41 |
 Miss Congeniality | 2000 | $10.0M | $107.0M | 10.6x | $213.0M | A- | 42% | #20 |
 The Cider House Rules | 1999 | $3.1M | $57.5M | 18.7x | $88.5M | — | 72% | — |
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
3.5x
$4.12B worldwide on $1.18B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.77BInternational $2.35B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven5.4x
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 G domesticCars 2$191.5M#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 4 of 5 placings across 5 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.
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