Actor
Patrick Wilson
16 films•1 as director•2004–2025•Thriller · Mystery · Horror
60%average critics74%average audience$96.5Mdomestic average
Films
16
2004–2025
Domestic
$1.54B
lifetime
Worldwide
$4.29B
lifetime
Avg opening
$31.2M
3-day
Avg legs
3.70x
opening → total
Return
4.4x
on $979.5M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 16 films credited to Patrick Wilson, 1 as director and 16 in the cast, from The Phantom of the Opera (2004) to The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025), together grossing $1.54B domestic and $4.29B worldwide. The biggest hit is Aquaman (2018) at $1.15B worldwide; the biggest opening weekend belongs to The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025) at $84.0M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 The Conjuring: Last Rites | 2025 | $84.0M | $177.8M | 2.12x | $499.2M | B+ | 63% | #15 |
 Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom | 2023 | $27.7M | $124.5M | 4.50x | $440.2M | A- | 41% | #21 |
 Insidious: The Red Door | 2023 | $33.0M | $82.2M | 2.50x | $189.1M | A- | 59% | #33 |
 The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It | 2021 | $24.0M | $66.0M | 2.80x | $206.0M | B+ | 56% | #19 |
 Annabelle Comes Home | 2019 | $20.3M | $74.2M | 3.66x | $231.3M | B- | 64% | #37 |
 Midway | 2019 | $17.9M | $56.8M | 3.17x | $126.8M | A- | 57% | #50 |
 Aquaman | 2018 | $67.9M | $335.1M | 4.94x | $1.15B | A- | 64% | #5 |
 The Conjuring 2 | 2016 | $40.3M | $102.5M | 2.55x | $320.1M | A | 80% | #28 |
 The Founder | 2016 | $3.4M | $12.8M | 3.80x | $24.2M | — | 80% | — |
 Insidious: Chapter 2 | 2013 | $40.3M | $83.6M | 2.08x | $162.0M | B+ | 38% | #42 |
 The Conjuring | 2013 | $41.9M | $137.0M | 3.28x | $319.0M | A- | 86% | #19 |
 Insidious | 2010 | $13.3M | $54.0M | 4.10x | $99.9M | — | 66% | — |
 The A-Team | 2010 | $25.7M | $77.2M | 3.01x | $177.0M | B+ | 48% | #44 |
 Watchmen | 2009 | $55.2M | $108.0M | 1.95x | $185.0M | B | 64% | #31 |
 Hard Candy | 2005 | $304K | $1.0M | 3.40x | $8.3M | — | 67% | — |
 The Phantom of the Opera | 2004 | $4.6M | $51.3M | 11.3x | $155.0M | A | 32% | — |
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
The Phantom of the Opera2004Hard Candy2005Watchmen2009Insidious2010The A-Team2010Insidious: Chapter 22013The Conjuring2013The Conjuring 22016The Founder2016Aquaman2018Annabelle Comes Home2019Midway2019The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It2021Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom2023Insidious: The Red Door2023The Conjuring: Last Rites2025DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 1.4 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
4.4x
$4.29B worldwide on $979.5M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.54BInternational $2.75B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven66.6x
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 →#3Biggest horror openingsThe Conjuring: Last Rites$84.0M#10Best multipliersAquaman4.97x#14Biggest R openingsThe Conjuring: Last Rites$83.0M#35Biggest worldwide runsAquaman$1.15B
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.
Connected
Series
Studios
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
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