Actor
Samuel L. Jackson
33 films•1994–2024•Action · Adventure · Drama
63%average critics70%average audience$132.2Mdomestic average
Films
33
1994–2024
Domestic
$4.36B
lifetime
Worldwide
$10.89B
lifetime
Avg opening
$37.1M
3-day
Avg legs
4.23x
opening → total
Return
4.0x
on $2.72B of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 33 films featuring Samuel L. Jackson, from Pulp Fiction (1994) to The Garfield Movie (2024), together grossing $4.36B domestic and $10.89B worldwide. The biggest hit is Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019) at $1.13B worldwide; the biggest opening weekend belongs to Captain Marvel (2019) at $153.4M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 The Garfield Movie | 2024 | $24.0M | $92.0M | 3.80x | $267.3M | B+ | 36% | #27 |
 Spiral: From the Book of Saw | 2021 | $8.7M | $23.2M | 2.67x | $40.6M | B- | 39% | #44 |
 The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard | 2021 | $11.4M | $37.0M | 3.20x | $70.1M | B | 25% | — |
 Captain Marvel | 2019 | $153.4M | $426.8M | 2.78x | $1.13B | A | 79% | #6 |
 Glass | 2019 | $40.3M | $111.0M | 2.75x | $247.0M | B | 37% | #25 |
 Spider-Man: Far from Home | 2019 | $92.6M | $391.4M | 4.22x | $1.13B | A | 91% | #7 |
 Kong: Skull Island | 2017 | $61.0M | $168.1M | 2.75x | $570.9M | A- | 65% | #20 |
 The Hitman's Bodyguard | 2017 | $21.5M | $75.5M | 3.51x | $176.6M | B+ | 40% | #41 |
 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children | 2016 | $28.9M | $87.2M | 3.02x | $296.0M | B+ | 63% | #35 |
 The Legend of Tarzan | 2016 | $38.1M | $126.6M | 3.32x | $356.8M | B+ | 36% | #23 |
 Kingsman: The Secret Service | 2015 | $36.2M | $128.3M | 3.54x | $404.6M | A- | 75% | #25 |
 The Hateful Eight | 2015 | $4.6M | $54.1M | 11.9x | $151.8M | B | 74% | #48 |
 Captain America: The Winter Soldier | 2014 | $95.0M | $259.8M | 2.73x | $714.4M | A | 90% | #4 |
 RoboCop | 2014 | $21.7M | $58.6M | 2.70x | $243.0M | B+ | 50% | — |
 Turbo | 2013 | $21.3M | $83.0M | 3.90x | $283.0M | A+ | 68% | #44 |
 Django Unchained | 2012 | $15.0M | $163.0M | 10.8x | $425.0M | A- | 87% | #15 |
 Jumper | 2008 | $27.4M | $80.2M | 2.93x | $225.0M | B | 15% | #39 |
 1408 | 2007 | $20.6M | $72.0M | 3.49x | $133.0M | B- | 80% | #37 |
 Coach Carter | 2005 | $24.2M | $67.3M | 2.78x | $76.7M | A | 63% | #37 |
 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith | 2005 | $108.0M | $380.0M | 3.51x | $850.0M | — | 79% | #1 |
 The Incredibles | 2004 | $70.5M | $261.0M | 3.71x | $631.0M | A+ | 97% | #5 |
 S.W.A.T. | 2003 | $37.1M | $117.0M | 3.16x | $208.0M | A | 48% | #19 |
 Changing Lanes | 2002 | $17.1M | $66.8M | 3.90x | $94.9M | B- | 77% | #41 |
 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones | 2002 | $80.0M | $302.0M | 3.78x | $645.0M | — | 62% | #3 |
 xXx | 2002 | $44.5M | $142.0M | 3.19x | $277.0M | A | 48% | #14 |
 Rules of Engagement | 2000 | $15.0M | $61.3M | 4.09x | $71.7M | A- | 36% | #38 |
 Shaft | 2000 | $21.7M | $70.3M | 3.24x | $107.0M | A- | 67% | #32 |
 Unbreakable | 2000 | $30.3M | $95.0M | 3.13x | $248.0M | C | 71% | #22 |
 The Red Violin | 1999 | $47K | $10.0M | — | $10.0M | — | 73% | — |
 Jackie Brown | 1997 | $9.3M | $39.7M | 4.30x | $74.7M | — | 88% | — |
 A Time to Kill | 1996 | $14.8M | $108.8M | 7.30x | $152.3M | — | 66% | — |
 Die Hard with a Vengeance | 1995 | $22.2M | $100.0M | 4.50x | $366.1M | — | 60% | — |
 Pulp Fiction | 1994 | $9.3M | $102.0M | 10.9x | $214.0M | B+ | 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 0.9 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
4.0x
$10.88B worldwide on $2.72B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $4.35BInternational $6.53B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven26.8x
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 →#30Biggest opening weekendsCaptain Marvel$153.4M#37Biggest worldwide runsSpider-Man: Far from Home$1.13B#38Biggest worldwide runsCaptain Marvel$1.13B#40Biggest domestic runsCaptain Marvel$426.8M
4 placings across 3 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
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
