Director
Sam Raimi
10 films•1981–2026•Horror · Action · Adventure
80%average critics74%average audience$188.8Mdomestic average
Films
10
1981–2026
Domestic
$1.89B
lifetime
Worldwide
$4.16B
lifetime
Avg opening
$66.1M
3-day
Avg legs
3.46x
opening → total
Return
3.8x
on $1.10B of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 10 films directed by Sam Raimi, from The Evil Dead (1981) to Send Help (2026), together grossing $1.89B domestic and $4.16B worldwide. The biggest hit is Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) at $952.2M worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $187.4M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Send Help | 2026 | $19.1M | $64.7M | 3.40x | $94.0M | B+ | 93% | #23 |
 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | 2022 | $187.4M | $411.3M | 2.20x | $952.2M | A | 74% | #4 |
 Oz the Great and Powerful | 2013 | $79.1M | $235.0M | 2.97x | $493.0M | B+ | 56% | #10 |
 Drag Me to Hell | 2009 | $15.8M | $42.1M | 2.70x | $91.4M | — | 92% | — |
 Spider-Man 3 | 2007 | $151.0M | $337.0M | 2.23x | $886.0M | B+ | 62% | #1 |
 Spider-Man 2 | 2004 | $88.2M | $374.0M | 4.24x | $786.0M | A- | 93% | #2 |
 Spider-Man | 2002 | $115.0M | $404.0M | 3.52x | $805.0M | A- | 90% | #1 |
 Army of Darkness | 1992 | $4.4M | $11.5M | 2.60x | $21.5M | — | 68% | — |
 Evil Dead II | 1987 | $807K | $5.9M | 7.30x | $5.9M | — | 88% | — |
 The Evil Dead | 1981 | — | $2.4M | — | $29.4M | — | 85% | — |
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 5.0 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
3.8x
$4.16B worldwide on $1.10B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.89BInternational $2.28B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven78.4x
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 →#10Biggest single daysDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness$90.7M#11Biggest PG-13 openingsDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness$187.4M#13Biggest opening weekendsDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness$187.4M#21Biggest 4th weekendsSpider-Man$28.5M#33Biggest opening weekendsSpider-Man 3$151.1M
Top 5 of 6 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 schedule →No upcoming movies announced yet.
Connected
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
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