Director
Ron Howard
10 films•1995–2018•Drama · Adventure · Biography
63%average critics72%average audience$131.0Mdomestic average
Films
10
1995–2018
Domestic
$1.31B
lifetime
Worldwide
$3.11B
lifetime
Avg opening
$34.1M
3-day
Avg legs
4.66x
opening → total
Return
2.9x
on $1.07B of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 10 films directed by Ron Howard, from Apollo 13 (1995) to Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), together grossing $1.31B domestic and $3.11B worldwide. The biggest hit is The Da Vinci Code (2006) at $760.0M worldwide; the biggest opening weekend belongs to Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) at $84.4M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Solo: A Star Wars Story | 2018 | $84.4M | $213.8M | 2.53x | $393.2M | A− | 70% | #12 |
 Inferno | 2016 | $14.9M | $34.3M | 2.30x | $219.5M | — | 23% | — |
 Rush | 2013 | $187K | $26.9M | 143.9x | $98.2M | — | 88% | — |
 Angels & Demons | 2009 | $46.2M | $133.0M | 2.89x | $486.0M | B+ | 36% | #22 |
 Frost/Nixon | 2008 | $3.0M | $18.6M | 6.20x | $28.5M | — | 93% | — |
 The Da Vinci Code | 2006 | $77.1M | $218.0M | 2.82x | $760.0M | B+ | 25% | #5 |
 Cinderella Man | 2005 | $18.3M | $61.6M | 3.37x | $109.0M | A+ | 80% | #43 |
 A Beautiful Mind | 2001 | $16.6M | $171.0M | 10.3x | $314.0M | A- | 74% | #11 |
 How the Grinch Stole Christmas | 2000 | $55.1M | $261.0M | 4.74x | $346.0M | A- | 50% | #1 |
 Apollo 13 | 1995 | $25.4M | $172.0M | 6.79x | $355.0M | A | 92% | — |
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 2.6 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
2.9x
$3.11B worldwide on $1.07B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.31BInternational $1.80B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven6.8x
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 →2 placings across 2 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.