Actor
Sylvester Stallone
17 films•6 as director•1976–2025•Action · Drama · Thriller
61%average critics70%average audience$85.4Mdomestic average
Films
17
1976–2025
Domestic
$1.45B
lifetime
Worldwide
$3.43B
lifetime
Avg opening
$18.4M
3-day
Avg legs
4.93x
opening → total
Return
3.9x
on $645.5M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 17 films credited to Sylvester Stallone, 6 as director and 17 in the cast, from Rocky (1976) to A Working Man (2025), together grossing $1.45B domestic and $3.43B worldwide. The biggest hit is The Expendables 2 (2012) at $315.0M worldwide; the biggest opening weekend belongs to Creed II (2018) at $35.6M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 A Working Man | 2025 | $15.5M | $37.0M | 2.39x | $89.0M | B | 51% | #50 |
 Creed II | 2018 | $35.6M | $115.7M | 3.30x | $214.2M | A | 83% | #30 |
 Creed | 2015 | $29.4M | $109.8M | 3.73x | $174.2M | A+ | 95% | #28 |
 The Expendables 3 | 2014 | $15.9M | $39.3M | 2.50x | $209.5M | — | 32% | — |
 Escape Plan | 2013 | $9.9M | $25.1M | 2.50x | $103.7M | — | 50% | — |
 The Expendables 2 | 2012 | $28.6M | $85.0M | 2.97x | $315.0M | A- | 68% | #35 |
 The Expendables | 2010 | $34.8M | $103.0M | 2.96x | $274.0M | B+ | 41% | #28 |
 Rambo | 2008 | $18.2M | $42.8M | 2.30x | $113.2M | — | 38% | — |
 Rocky Balboa | 2006 | $12.2M | $70.3M | 5.78x | $156.0M | B+ | 78% | #38 |
 Spy Kids 3: Game Over | 2003 | $33.4M | $112.0M | 3.40x | $197.0M | B+ | 45% | #20 |
 Demolition Man | 1993 | $14.3M | $58.1M | 4.10x | $159.1M | — | 67% | — |
 Rambo: First Blood Part II | 1985 | $20.2M | $150.4M | 7.50x | $300.4M | — | 33% | — |
 Rocky IV | 1985 | $20.0M | $127.9M | — | $300.4M | — | 38% | — |
 First Blood | 1982 | $6.6M | $47.2M | 7.10x | $125.2M | — | 86% | — |
 Rocky III | 1982 | $12.4M | $125.0M | 10.1x | $270.0M | — | 66% | — |
 Rocky II | 1979 | $6.4M | $85.2M | 13.3x | $200.2M | — | 68% | — |
 Rocky | 1976 | — | $117.2M | — | $225.0M | — | 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 3.1 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
3.9x
$2.50B worldwide on $645.5M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.05BInternational $1.44B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven225.0x
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 →1 placing across 1 all-time chart. 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.