Director
Peter Jackson
8 films•2001–2014•Adventure · Fantasy · Drama
74%average critics77%average audience$263.5Mdomestic average
Films
8
2001–2014
Domestic
$2.11B
lifetime
Worldwide
$6.48B
lifetime
Avg opening
$57.7M
3-day
Avg legs
4.50x
opening → total
Return
4.9x
on $1.32B of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 8 films directed by Peter Jackson, from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) to The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014), together grossing $2.11B domestic and $6.48B worldwide. The biggest hit is The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) at $1.12B worldwide; the biggest opening weekend belongs to The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) at $84.6M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | 2014 | $54.7M | $255.1M | 4.66x | $940.3M | A | 59% | #6 |
 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | 2013 | $73.6M | $258.0M | 3.51x | $958.0M | A- | 74% | #8 |
 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | 2012 | $84.6M | $303.0M | 3.58x | $1.02B | A | 64% | #5 |
 The Lovely Bones | 2009 | $17.0M | $44.1M | 2.60x | $94.9M | — | 31% | — |
 King Kong | 2005 | $50.1M | $218.0M | 4.35x | $557.0M | A- | 84% | #5 |
 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 2003 | $72.6M | $377.0M | 5.19x | $1.12B | A+ | 94% | #1 |
 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | 2002 | $62.0M | $340.0M | 5.48x | $923.0M | A | 95% | #2 |
 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | 2001 | $47.2M | $313.0M | 6.64x | $868.0M | A- | 91% | #2 |
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 1.9 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
4.9x
$6.48B worldwide on $1.32B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $2.11BInternational $4.37B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven11.9x
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 →#6Best multipliersThe Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers5.48x#8Best multipliersThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King5.19x#13Biggest 6th weekendsThe Lovely Bones$17.0M#16Best multipliersThe Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies4.66x#40Biggest worldwide runsThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King$1.12B
5 placings across 3 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.
