Actor
Sigourney Weaver
17 films•1979–2026•Action · Sci-Fi · Adventure
64%average critics71%average audience$180.7Mdomestic average
Films
17
1979–2026
Domestic
$3.07B
lifetime
Worldwide
$8.93B
lifetime
Avg opening
$35.8M
3-day
Avg legs
5.41x
opening → total
Return
5.3x
on $1.65B of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 17 films featuring Sigourney Weaver, from Alien (1979) to The Mandalorian & Grogu (2026), together grossing $3.07B domestic and $8.93B worldwide. The biggest hit is Avatar (2009) at $2.92B worldwide; the biggest opening weekend belongs to Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) at $134.1M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 The Mandalorian & Grogu | 2026 | $81.7M | $177.7M | 2.20x | $345.7M | A- | 63% | #11 |
 Avatar: Fire and Ash | 2025 | $89.2M | $404.0M | 4.53x | $1.49B | A | 68% | #4 |
 The Gorge | 2025 | — | — | — | — | — | 62% | — |
 Avatar: The Way of Water | 2022 | $134.1M | $688.8M | 5.10x | $2.32B | A | 77% | #2 |
 Chappie | 2015 | $13.3M | $31.6M | 2.40x | $105.0M | — | 32% | — |
 Exodus: Gods and Kings | 2014 | $24.1M | $65.0M | 2.70x | $268.3M | — | 29% | — |
 Avatar | 2009 | $77.0M | $785.2M | 9.70x | $2.92B | A | 81% | #1 |
 Vantage Point | 2008 | $22.9M | $72.3M | 3.16x | $152.0M | B- | 34% | #44 |
 The Village | 2004 | $50.7M | $114.0M | 2.25x | $258.0M | C | 43% | #20 |
 Holes | 2003 | $16.3M | $67.4M | 4.14x | $71.2M | A | 77% | #42 |
 Galaxy Quest | 1999 | $7.0M | $71.4M | 10.2x | $90.5M | — | 90% | — |
 Alien: Resurrection | 1997 | $16.5M | $47.8M | 2.90x | $160.7M | — | 55% | — |
 Alien³ | 1992 | $19.4M | $54.9M | 2.80x | $158.5M | — | 43% | — |
 Ghostbusters II | 1989 | $29.5M | $112.5M | 3.80x | $215.5M | — | 57% | — |
 Aliens | 1986 | $10.1M | $85.2M | 8.50x | $183.3M | — | 93% | — |
 Ghostbusters | 1984 | $13.6M | $229.2M | 16.8x | — | — | 95% | — |
 Alien | 1979 | $3.5M | $65.4M | — | $188.0M | — | 93% | — |
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 2.9 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
5.3x
$8.71B worldwide on $1.65B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $2.73BInternational $5.98B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven17.6x
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 worldwide runsAvatar$2.92B#1Best multipliersAvatar9.73x#1Biggest 6th weekendsAvatar$34.9M#3Biggest 4th weekendsAvatar: The Way of Water$45.8M#4Biggest worldwide runsAvatar: The Way of Water$2.32B#7Most weeks at #1Ghostbusters10 weeks#8Biggest domestic runsAvatar: The Way of Water$688.8M#12Fastest to $1B worldwideAvatar: Fire and Ash18 days#17Biggest worldwide runsAvatar: Fire and Ash$1.49B#20Best multipliersAvatar: Fire and Ash4.53x
Top 10 of 32 placings across 15 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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