Actor
Russell Brand
7 films•2008–2022•Comedy · Drama · Adventure
62%average critics70%average audience$134.3Mdomestic average
Films
7
2008–2022
Domestic
$939.8M
lifetime
Worldwide
$2.06B
lifetime
Avg opening
$37.6M
3-day
Avg legs
3.45x
opening → total
Return
4.5x
on $462.0M of budget
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Minions: The Rise of Gru | 2022 | $107.0M | $370.5M | 3.50x | $937.7M | A | 60% | #6 |
 Despicable Me | 2010 | $56.4M | $252.8M | 4.48x | $544.7M | A | 80% | #7 |
 Hop | 2011 | $37.5M | $108.0M | 2.88x | $184.0M | A- | 25% | #25 |
 Forgetting Sarah Marshall | 2008 | $17.7M | $63.2M | 3.60x | $105.5M | — | 84% | — |
 Get Him to the Greek | 2010 | $17.6M | $61.2M | 3.50x | $93.0M | — | 72% | — |
 Death on the Nile | 2022 | $12.9M | $45.6M | 3.50x | $130.3M | A- | 72% | #34 |
 Rock of Ages | 2012 | $14.4M | $38.5M | 2.70x | $61.0M | B | 43% | — |
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 2.3 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
4.5x
$2.06B worldwide on $462.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $939.8MInternational $1.12B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven9.4x
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 →#1Biggest July 4th openingsMinions: The Rise of Gru$107.0M#15Biggest animated openingsMinions: The Rise of Gru$107.0M#15Biggest July openingsMinions: The Rise of Gru$107.0M
Top 3 of 4 placings across 4 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
Series
Studios
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
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