Director
Ron HowardFollow
26 films•1982–2024•Drama · Comedy · Adventure
Avg critics65%
Avg audience67%
Avg domestic$82.5M
Domestic
$2.062B
Lifetime
Worldwide
$4.220B
Lifetime
Avg opening
$18.9M
3-day
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 How the Grinch Stole Christmas | 2000 | $55.1M | $261.0M | 4.74x | $346.0M | A- | 50% | #1 |
 The Da Vinci Code | 2006 | $77.1M | $217.5M | 2.82x | $767.8M | B+ | 25% | #5 |
 Solo: A Star Wars Story | 2018 | $84.4M | $213.8M | 2.53x | $393.2M | A− | 70% | #12 |
 Apollo 13 | 1995 | $25.4M | $172.0M | 6.79x | $355.0M | A | 92% | — |
 A Beautiful Mind | 2001 | $2.5M | $171.0M | 10.3x | $314.0M | A- | 74% | #11 |
 Ransom | 1996 | $34.2M | $136.5M | 4.00x | $308.7M | — | 73% | — |
 Angels & Demons | 2009 | $46.2M | $133.4M | 2.89x | $490.9M | B+ | 36% | #22 |
 Parenthood | 1989 | $10.5M | $100.0M | 9.50x | $126.3M | A | 92% | — |
 Backdraft | 1991 | $12.7M | $77.9M | 6.10x | $152.4M | A | 72% | — |
 Cocoon | 1985 | $7.9M | $76.3M | 9.60x | $85.5M | — | 82% | — |
 Splash | 1984 | $6.2M | $62.6M | 10.1x | — | — | 91% | — |
 Cinderella Man | 2005 | $18.3M | $61.6M | 3.37x | $109.0M | A+ | 80% | #43 |
 Far and Away | 1992 | $10.2M | $58.9M | 5.80x | $137.8M | A | 51% | — |
 Willow | 1988 | $8.3M | $57.3M | 6.90x | — | A- | 53% | — |
 The Dilemma | 2011 | $17.8M | $48.5M | 2.70x | $70.5M | — | 24% | — |
 The Paper | 1994 | $7.0M | $36.8M | 5.20x | $46.4M | B+ | 86% | — |
 Inferno | 2016 | $14.9M | $34.3M | 2.30x | $219.5M | — | 23% | — |
 Rush | 2013 | $187K | $26.9M | 2.70x | $98.2M | — | 88% | — |
 The Missing | 2003 | $10.8M | $26.9M | 2.50x | $38.3M | — | 58% | — |
 In the Heart of the Sea | 2015 | $11.1M | $25.0M | 2.30x | $94.3M | — | 42% | — |
 Edtv | 1999 | $8.3M | $22.5M | 2.70x | $35.3M | — | 64% | — |
 Night Shift | 1982 | $2.5M | $21.0M | 8.30x | — | — | 93% | — |
 Frost/Nixon | 2008 | $181K | $18.6M | 6.20x | $28.5M | — | 93% | — |
 Eden | 2024 | $1.1M | $1.6M | 1.50x | $2.5M | — | 58% | — |
 Thirteen Lives | 2022 | — | — | — | — | — | 85% | — |
 Hillbilly Elegy | 2020 | — | — | — | — | — | 24% | — |
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
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DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 1.7 years
Profitability
Return on budget
2.5x
$3.809B worldwide on $1.548B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs international split
Domestic $1.630BInternational $2.180B
Return by film
Worldwide ÷ budget0x2.5x 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, and streaming releases with no real theatrical run, are left out of this section entirely, including from the totals, rather than counted as zero.
Records held
All records#2Best second-weekend holds ($50M+ openers)How the Grinch Stole Christmas−5.4%#11Biggest Memorial Day openingsSolo: A Star Wars Story$103.0M#12Biggest 9th weekendsA Beautiful Mind$8.1M#16Best multipliersHow the Grinch Stole Christmas4.74x
Top 4 of 5 placings across 5 all-time charts. Where a film places on the same chart in consecutive weekends, only its best placing is shown.
What’s next
Full scheduleNo upcoming movies announced yet.
Connected
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.