Director
Robert Luketic
4 films•2001–2009•Comedy · Romance · Crime
35%average critics63%average audience$87.4Mdomestic average
Films
4
2001–2009
Domestic
$349.5M
lifetime
Worldwide
$662.0M
lifetime
Avg opening
$23.8M
3-day
Avg legs
3.73x
opening → total
Return
4.9x
on $134.0M of budget
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Legally Blonde | 2001 | $20.4M | $96.5M | 4.74x | $142.0M | A- | 72% | #22 |
 The Ugly Truth | 2009 | $27.6M | $88.9M | 3.22x | $205.0M | A- | 14% | #37 |
 Monster-in-Law | 2005 | $23.1M | $82.9M | 3.60x | $155.0M | B+ | 19% | #24 |
 21 | 2008 | $24.1M | $81.2M | 3.37x | $160.0M | B+ | 36% | #37 |
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 2.7 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
4.9x
$662.0M worldwide on $134.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $349.5MInternational $312.5M
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven7.9x
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.
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Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
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