James Bond Films' Box Office Gross and Budgets
Two days ago, October 5, was James Bond day! Unfortunately, it was also my birthday and I had other plans for what to post that day, but after I got back into watching all the James Bond films earlier this year I did want to share something related to that near the day, so here's this! (Also I guess today is 10-07, so there's that)
This is an infographic I made on July 29, 2024 based on data from Wikipedia, around the time I found LoadingReadyRun's From Rewatch With Love podcast and started getting really into James Bond films for the first time. I also made a post about this on my original blog in Medium on February 26, 2025. The data itself hasn't changed, but I remastered the infographic and rewrote this post to match my current standards!
This infographic shows the box office gross and budget of every EON Productions James Bond film, with the box office gross in the x-axis and the budget in the y-axis. The movies are also coloured depending on the actor playing James Bond, with stats on the total and average gross and budgets of each film on the right!
The highest grossing Bond movie ever is Skyfall, which only had the eighth largest budget of the films. The second and third-highest grossing films, Thunderball and Goldfinger, had comparatively small budgets, having the eight and third smallest budgets respectively.
Daniel Craig has the highest gross of any actor on average, being the only actor to have his films average at over a billion dollars, with four of his films being amongst the six highest-grossing. At the same time his movies also had the largest budgets, with an average of $285.5 million per film, which include the three most costly movies in the franchise (No Time To Die, Spectre, and Quantum of Solace). All five of his movies are among the seven most expensive, which also happen to be the seven most recent, including The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day, Pierce Brosnan's last two movies. Sean Connery has the largest total gross of any Bond actor, largely due to Goldfinger and Thunderball, but he misses out on averaging a billion per film.
Speaking of — perhaps unsurprisingly — Sean Connery's films had the smallest budgets on average, with the first three films being the least costly of the entire franchise (Dr. No, From Russia With Love, and Goldfinger). Timothy Dalton’s two movies have the smallest average gross of any of the actors, with the film Licence to Kill being the lowest grossing film in the franchise. His two movies had a lower average gross than On Her Majesty's Secret Service, George Lazenby's only movie.
And that's it! I'm really glad to share this again, as I was quite proud of the infograph, but I am also extremely happen to officially remaster it and the original post, especially as I found some mistakes in it, which I've now corrected!
Also, I originally thought of making a version including the non-EON films, but it ended up being too messy so I didn't do it, but I'm sure some people out there will ask for that, so here it is:
In case anyone is wondering, Casino Royale (1967) grossed $381 million, Never Say Never Again grossed $489 million, and both had a budget of $110 million each. Also if you add Never Say Never Again onto Sean Connery's numbers, his movies would gross $6.31 billion in total and $901.4 million on average (bringing down the average quite a bit), and his budget rises to $391.1 million in total and $55.9 million on average. Yay.
