Studio
New Line Cinema
45 films•1981–2007•Drama · Comedy · Horror
61%average critics73%average audience$95.8Mdomestic average
Films
20
1994–2007
Domestic
$4.31B
lifetime
Worldwide
$8.82B
lifetime
Avg opening
$22.3M
3-day
Avg legs
4.29x
opening → total
Return
4.9x
on $1.76B of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 45 New Line Cinema releases from 1981 to 2007, together grossing $4.31B domestic and $8.82B worldwide. The biggest hit is The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) at $1.12B worldwide; the biggest opening weekend belongs to Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) at $73.1M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Rush Hour 3 | 2007 | $49.1M | $140.0M | 2.90x | $258.0M | A- | 17% | #16 |
 Hairspray | 2007 | $27.5M | $119.0M | 4.30x | $204.0M | A | 92% | #24 |
 Wedding Crashers | 2005 | $33.9M | $209.0M | 6.20x | $288.0M | — | 75% | #6 |
 Monster-in-Law | 2005 | $23.1M | $82.9M | 3.60x | $155.0M | B+ | 19% | #24 |
 The Notebook | 2004 | $13.5M | $81.0M | 6.02x | $118.0M | A | 54% | #31 |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 2003 | $72.6M | $377.0M | 5.19x | $1.12B | A+ | 94% | #1 |
 Elf | 2003 | $31.1M | $173.0M | 5.60x | $220.0M | A- | 85% | #7 |
 Freddy vs. Jason | 2003 | $36.4M | $82.6M | 2.30x | $117.0M | B+ | 42% | #36 |
 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre | 2003 | $28.1M | $80.6M | 2.90x | $108.0M | B+ | 37% | #38 |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | 2002 | $62.0M | $340.0M | 5.48x | $923.0M | A | 95% | #2 |
 Austin Powers in Goldmember | 2002 | $73.1M | $213.0M | 2.92x | $297.0M | B+ | 52% | #7 |
 Blade II | 2002 | $32.5M | $82.3M | 2.53x | $155.0M | B+ | 57% | #31 |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | 2001 | $47.2M | $313.0M | 6.64x | $868.0M | A- | 91% | #2 |
| Rush Hour 2 | 2001 | $67.4M | $226.0M | 3.36x | $347.0M | A | 50% | #5 |
 Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me | 1999 | $54.9M | $206.0M | 3.80x | $312.4M | — | 54% | — |
 Rush Hour | 1998 | $33.0M | $141.2M | 4.30x | $245.3M | — | 62% | — |
 The Wedding Singer | 1998 | $18.9M | $80.2M | 4.30x | $123.3M | — | 72% | — |
 Se7en | 1995 | $13.9M | $101.9M | 7.30x | $329.9M | — | 84% | — |
 Dumb and Dumber | 1994 | $16.4M | $127.3M | 7.80x | $246.5M | — | 69% | — |
 The Mask | 1994 | $23.1M | $120.1M | 5.20x | $351.8M | — | 82% | — |
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
Dumb and Dumber1994The Mask1994Se7en1995Rush Hour1998The Wedding Singer1998Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me1999The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring2001Rush Hour 22001The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers2002Austin Powers in Goldmember2002Blade II2002The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King2003Elf2003Freddy vs. Jason2003The Texas Chainsaw Massacre2003The Notebook2004Wedding Crashers2005Monster-in-Law2005Rush Hour 32007Hairspray2007DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide
Profitability
Return on Budget
4.9x
$8.73B worldwide on $1.76B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $4.27BInternational $4.46B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven19.5x
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 →#6Best multipliersThe Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers5.48x#8Best multipliersThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King5.19x#40Biggest worldwide runsThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King$1.12B
3 placings across 2 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.
