Top-Grossing Films ($100+M)
with African-American
Lead Actors or Themes from the
African-American or African Diaspora
Black Panther
(2018)
Director: Ryan Coogler
Estimated Budget: $200,000,000
Domestic:
$700,426,566
International:
$647,171,407
Worldwide:
$1,347,597,973
The Lion King
(1994)
Directors:
Roger Allers, Rob Minko
Estimated Budget:
$45,000,000
Domestic:
$422,783,777
International:
$660,937,100
Worldwide:
$1,083,720,877
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
(2017)
Director: Jake Kasdan
Estimated Budget:
$90,000,000
Domestic:
$404,540,171
International:
$558,002,774
Worldwide:
$962,542,945
Hancock
(2008)
Director: Peter Berg
Estimated Budget: $150,000,000
Domestic:
$227,946,274
International:
$396,440,472
Worldwide:
$624,386,746
I Am Legend
(2007)
Director: Francis Lawrence
Estimated Budget:
$150,000,000
Domestic:
$256,393,010
International:
$328,156,000
Total Gross:
$585,349,010
Bad Boys For Life
(2020)
Directors:
Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah
Estimated Budget:
$90,000,000
Domestic:
$206,305,244
International:
$220,200,000
Total Gross:
$426,505,244
Django Unchained
(2012)
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Estimated Budget:
$100,000,000
Domestic:
$162,805,434
International:
$262,562,804
Worldwide:
$425,368,238
The Bodyguard
(1992)
Director: Mick Jackson
Estimated Budget:
$25,000,000
Domestic:
$122,006,740
International:
$289,000,000
Total Gross:
$411,006,740
The Pursuit of Happyness
(2006)
Director: Gabrielle Muccino
Estimated Budget:
$55,000,000
Domestic:
$163,566,459
International:
$143,510,836
Worldwide:
$307,077,295
Beverly Hills Cop 2
(1987)
Director: Tony Scott
Estimated Budget:
$28,000,000
Domestic:
$153,665,036
International:
$146,300,000
Total Gross:
$299,965,036
Coming to America
(1988)
Director: John Landis
Estimated Budget:
$39,000,000
Domestic:
$128,152,301
International:
$160,600,000
Worldwide:
$288,752,301
The Nutty Professor
(1996)
Director: Tom Shadyac
Estimated Budget:
$54,000,000
Domestic:
$128,814,019
International:
$145,147,000
Total Gross:
$273,961,019
Bad Boys II
(2003)
Director: Michael Bay
Estimated Budget:
$130,000,000
Domestic:
$138,608,444
International:
$134,731,112
Worldwide:
$273,339,556
American Gangster
(2007)
Director: Ridley Scott
Estimated Budget:
$100,000,000
Domestic:
$130,164,645
International:
$136,300,392
Total Gross:
$266,465,037
Get Out
(2017)
Director: Jordan Peele
Estimated Budget:
$4,500,000
Domestic:
$176,040,665
International:
$79,548,492
Worldwide:
$255,589,157
Us
(2019)
Director: Jordan Peele
Estimated Budget:
$20,000,000
Domestic:
$175,084,580
International:
$76,600,000
Worldwide:
$255,184,580
Hidden Figures
(2016)
Director: Theodore Melfi
Estimated Budget:
$25,000,000
Domestic:
$169,607,287
Foreign:
$66,349,611
Worldwide:
$235,956,898
Sister Act
(1992)
Director: Emile Ardo
Estimated Budget:
$31,000,000
Domestic:
$139,605,150
Foreign:
$92,000,000
Total Gross:
$231,605,150
Central Intelligence
(2016)
Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber
Estimated Budget:
$50,000,000
Domestic:
$127,440,871
Foreign:
$89,531,672
Worldwide:
$216,972,543
The Help
(2011)
Director: Tate Taylor
Estimated Budget:
$25,000,000
Domestic:
$169,708,112
Foreign:
$46,931,000
Total Gross:
$216,639,112
Creed II
(2018)
Director: Steven Caple, Jr.
Estimated Budget:
$50,000,000
Domestic:
$115,715,889
International:
$98,500,000
Worldwide:
$214,215,889
Safe House
(2012)
Director: Daniel Espinosa
Estimated Budget:
$85,000,000
Domestic:
$126,373,434
International:
$81,702,771
Total Gross:
$208,076,205
Straight Outta Compton
(2015)
Director: F. Gary Gray
Estimated Budget:
$28,000,000
Domestic:
$161,197,785
Foreign:
$40,437,206
Worldwide:
$201,634,991
The Pelican Brief
(1993)
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Estimated Budget:
$45,000,000
Domestic:
$100,768,056
Foreign:
$94,500,000
Total Gross:
$195,268,056
The Equalizer
(2014)
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Estimated Budget:
$55,000,000
Domestic:
$101,530,738
Foreign:
$90,800,000
Worldwide:
$192,330,738
The Equalizer II
(2018)
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Estimated Budget:
$62,000,000
Domestic:
$102,084,362
Foreign:
$88,315,795
Total Gross:
$190,400,157
12 Years a Slave
(2013)
Director: Steve McQueen
Estimated Budget:
$20,000,000
Domestic:
$56,671,993
Foreign:
$131,061,209
Worldwide:
$187,733,202
Inside Man
(2006)
Director: Spike Lee
Estimated Budget:
$45,000,000
Domestic:
$88,513,495
Foreign:
$95,862,759
Worldwide:
$184,376,254
The Butler
(2013)
Director: Lee Daniels
Estimated Budget:
$45,000,000
Domestic:
$116,632,095
Foreign:
$59,966,813
Worldwide:
$176,598,908
Big Momma's House
(2000)
Director: Raja Gosnell
Estimated Budget:
$30,000,000
Domestic:
$117,559,438
Foreign:
$56,400,000
Worldwide:
$173,959,438
Creed
(2015)
Director: Ryan Coogler
Estimated Budget:
$35,000,000
Domestic:
$109,767,581
Foreign:
$63,800,000
Worldwide:
$173,567,581
The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
(2006)
Director: Peter Segal
Estimated Budget:
$84,000,000
Domestic:
$123,309,890
Foreign:
$43,030,000
Worldwide:
$166,339,890
The Book of Eli
(2010)
Directors:
Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
Estimated Budget:
$80,000,000
Domestic:
$94,835,059
Foreign:
$62,272,696
Worldwide:
$157,107,755
Blade II
(2002)
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Estimated Budget:
$54,000,000
Domestic:
$82,348,319
Foreign:
$72,661,713
Worldwide:
$155,010,032
Dreamgirls
(2006)
Director: Bill Condon
Estimated Budget:
$45,000,000
Domestic:
$103,365,956
Foreign:
$51,571,724
Worldwide:
$154,937,680
Ride Along
(2014)
Director: Tim Story
Estimated Budget:
$25,000,000
Domestic:
$134,938,200
Foreign:
$19,530,702
Worldwide:
$154,468,902
The Bone Collector
(1999)
Director: Phillip Noyce
Estimated Budget:
$73,000,000
Domestic:
$66,518,655
Foreign:
$84,975,000
Worldwide:
$151,493,655
Bad Boys
(1995)
Director: Michael Bay
Estimated Budget:
$19,000,000
Domestic:
$65,807,024
Foreign:
$75,600,000
Worldwide:
$141,407,024
Girls Trip
(2017)
Director: Malcolm D. Lee
Estimated Budget:
$19,000,000
Domestic:
$115,171,585
Foreign:
$25,378,951
Worldwide:
$140,550,536
Big Momma's House 2
(2006)
Director: John Whitesell
Estimated Budget:
$40,000,000
Domestic:
$70,165,972
Foreign:
$68,093,090
Worldwide:
$138,259,062
A Wrinkle in Time
(2018)
Director: Ava DuVernay
Estimated Budget:
$100,000,000
Domestic:
$100,478,608
Foreign:
$32,197,256
Worldwide:
$132,675,864
Blade
(1998)
Director: Stephen Norrington
Estimated Budget:
$45,000,000
Domestic:
$70,087,718
Foreign:
$61,095,812
Worldwide:
$131,183,530
Boomerang
(1992)
Director: Reginald Hudlin
Estimated Budget:
$42,000,000
Domestic:
$70,052,444
Foreign:
$61,000,000
Worldwide:
$131,052,444
Man of Fire
(2004)
Director: Tony Scott
Estimated Budget:
$70,000,000
Domestic:
$77,911,774
Foreign:
$52,381,940
Worldwide:
$130,293,714
Blade: Trinity
(2004)
Director: David S. Goyer
Estimated Budget:
$65,000,000
Domestic:
$52,411,906
Foreign:
$76,493,460
Worldwide:
$128,905,366
Ray
(2004)
Director: T
Estimated Budget:
$40,000,000
Domestic:
$75,331,600
Foreign:
$49,399,934
Worldwide:
$124,605,297
Ride Along 2
(2016)
Director: Tim Story
Estimated Budget:
$40,000,000
Domestic:
$91,221,830
Foreign:
$33,383,467
Worldwide:
$124,605,297
Beverly Hills Cop III
(1994)
Director: John Landis
Estimated Budget:
$50,000,000
Domestic:
$42,614,912
Foreign:
$76,594,077
Worldwide:
$119,208,989
Blue Streak
(1999)
Director: Les Mayfield
Estimated Budget:
$65,000,000
Domestic:
$68,518,533
Foreign:
$49,239,967
Worldwide:
$117,758,500
White Chicks
(2004)
Director: Keenan Ivory Wayans
Estimated Budget:
$37,000,000
Domestic:
$70,831,760
Foreign:
$42,254,715
Worldwide:
$113,086,475
Shaft
(2000)
Director: John Singleton
Estimated Budget:
$46,000,000
Domestic:
$70,334,258
Foreign:
$36,862,240
Worldwide:
$107,196,498
Training Day
(2001)
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Estimated Budget:
$45,000,000
Domestic:
$76,631,907
Foreign:
$28,244,326
Worldwide:
$104,876,233