Director
Tim Burton
17 films•1988–2024•Fantasy · Comedy · Adventure
70%average critics69%average audience$127.0Mdomestic average
Films
17
1988–2024
Domestic
$2.16B
lifetime
Worldwide
$4.68B
lifetime
Avg opening
$37.3M
3-day
Avg legs
3.95x
opening → total
Return
3.3x
on $1.44B of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 17 films directed by Tim Burton, from Beetlejuice (1988) to Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024), together grossing $2.16B domestic and $4.68B worldwide. The biggest hit is Alice in Wonderland (2010) at $1.03B worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $116.0M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Beetlejuice Beetlejuice | 2024 | $111.0M | $294.1M | 2.65x | $452.0M | B+ | 75% | #6 |
 Dumbo | 2019 | $46.0M | $114.8M | 2.50x | $353.2M | A- | 46% | #23 |
 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children | 2016 | $28.9M | $87.2M | 3.02x | $296.0M | B+ | 63% | #35 |
 Dark Shadows | 2012 | $29.7M | $79.7M | 2.69x | $246.0M | B- | 35% | #38 |
 Alice in Wonderland | 2010 | $116.0M | $334.0M | 2.88x | $1.03B | A- | 51% | #2 |
 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | 2007 | $9.3M | $52.9M | 5.69x | $153.0M | — | 86% | #48 |
 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | 2005 | $56.2M | $206.0M | 3.68x | $475.0M | A- | 83% | #7 |
 Corpse Bride | 2005 | $19.1M | $53.4M | 2.79x | $117.0M | B+ | 85% | — |
 Big Fish | 2003 | $13.8M | $66.8M | 4.84x | $123.0M | B+ | 76% | #44 |
 Planet of the Apes | 2001 | $68.5M | $180.0M | 2.63x | $362.0M | B- | 42% | #10 |
 Sleepy Hollow | 1999 | $30.1M | $101.1M | 3.40x | $207.1M | — | 71% | — |
 Mars Attacks! | 1996 | $9.4M | $37.8M | 4.00x | $101.4M | — | 56% | — |
 Ed Wood | 1994 | $1.9M | $5.9M | 3.10x | $5.9M | — | 92% | — |
 Batman Returns | 1992 | $45.7M | $163.0M | 3.60x | $267.0M | — | 81% | — |
 Edward Scissorhands | 1990 | $160K | $54.0M | 338.2x | — | — | 92% | — |
 Batman | 1989 | $40.5M | $251.2M | 6.20x | $411.3M | — | 77% | — |
 Beetlejuice | 1988 | $8.0M | $77.5M | 9.60x | $78.1M | — | 83% | — |
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
Beetlejuice1988Batman1989Edward Scissorhands1990Batman Returns1992Ed Wood1994Mars Attacks!1996Sleepy Hollow1999Planet of the Apes2001Big Fish2003Charlie and the Chocolate Factory2005Corpse Bride2005Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street2007Alice in Wonderland2010Dark Shadows2012Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children2016Dumbo2019Beetlejuice Beetlejuice2024DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 2.2 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
3.3x
$4.68B worldwide on $1.44B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $2.11BInternational $2.57B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven11.8x
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 →#16Biggest PG openingsAlice in Wonderland$116.1M#19Biggest PG openingsBeetlejuice Beetlejuice$110.0M
2 placings 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.
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