Actor
Paul Rudd
20 films•1995–2026•Comedy · Adventure · Action
69%average critics75%average audience$96.3Mdomestic average
Films
20
1995–2026
Domestic
$1.93B
lifetime
Worldwide
$3.36B
lifetime
Avg opening
$26.8M
3-day
Avg legs
5.53x
opening → total
Return
3.1x
on $1.10B of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 20 films featuring Paul Rudd, from Clueless (1995) to Power Ballad (2026), together grossing $1.93B domestic and $3.36B worldwide. The biggest hit is Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) at $623.1M worldwide; the biggest opening weekend belongs to Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023) at $106.1M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Avengers: Doomsday | 2026 | — | — | — | — | — | 0% | — |
 Power Ballad | 2026 | $178K | $2.6M | 15.2x | $2.6M | — | 89% | #89 |
 Anaconda | 2025 | $14.5M | $65.1M | 4.50x | $135.0M | B | 48% | #35 |
 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire | 2024 | $45.2M | $236.9M | 5.24x | $202.0M | B+ | 44% | — |
 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania | 2023 | $106.1M | $214.5M | 2.00x | $476.1M | A | 46% | #9 |
 Ghostbusters: Afterlife | 2021 | $44.0M | $129.4M | 2.90x | $204.3M | A- | 63% | #10 |
 Ant-Man and the Wasp | 2018 | $75.8M | $216.6M | 2.86x | $623.1M | A | 87% | #11 |
 Ant-Man | 2015 | $57.2M | $180.2M | 3.15x | $518.9M | A | 83% | #15 |
 Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues | 2013 | $26.2M | $125.0M | 4.77x | $171.0M | B | 74% | #23 |
 The Perks of Being a Wallflower | 2012 | $228K | $17.7M | 77.7x | $33.1M | — | 85% | — |
 This Is 40 | 2012 | $11.6M | $67.5M | 5.83x | $90.2M | B- | 52% | #42 |
 Dinner for Schmucks | 2010 | $23.5M | $73.0M | 3.10x | $86.8M | B | 42% | #46 |
 I Love You, Man | 2009 | $17.8M | $71.4M | 4.01x | $92.3M | B+ | 82% | #47 |
 Role Models | 2008 | $19.2M | $67.3M | 3.51x | $94.5M | — | 77% | #48 |
 Knocked Up | 2007 | $30.7M | $149.0M | 4.85x | $220.0M | B+ | 90% | #14 |
 The 40-Year-Old Virgin | 2005 | $21.4M | $109.0M | 5.11x | $177.0M | A- | 85% | #19 |
 Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy | 2004 | $28.4M | $85.3M | 3.00x | $89.5M | B | 66% | #29 |
 Wet Hot American Summer | 2001 | $17K | $547K | — | $0.5M | — | 39% | — |
 The Cider House Rules | 1999 | $3.1M | $57.5M | 18.7x | $88.5M | — | 72% | — |
 Clueless | 1995 | $10.6M | $56.6M | 5.30x | $58.1M | — | 82% | — |
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
Clueless1995The Cider House Rules1999Wet Hot American Summer2001Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy2004The 40-Year-Old Virgin2005Knocked Up2007Role Models2008I Love You, Man2009Dinner for Schmucks2010The Perks of Being a Wallflower2012This Is 402012Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues2013Ant-Man2015Ant-Man and the Wasp2018Ghostbusters: Afterlife2021Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania2023Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire2024Anaconda2025Avengers: Doomsday2026Power Ballad2026DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 1.6 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
3.1x
$3.36B worldwide on $1.10B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.92BInternational $1.44B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven7.3x
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.
What’s next
Full schedule →No upcoming movies announced yet.
Connected
Series
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.