Monsterverse Box Office: Every Film and the Series Total

The five released Monsterverse films have grossed $2.53 billion worldwide, of which $776.5 million came from the domestic market and $1.75 billion from international markets. Each film's budget and grosses appear here in release order.

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024) is the highest grossing Monsterverse film with Godzilla in its title, at $572 million worldwide. The 2014 film Godzilla earned the most at home, with $200.7 million domestic, and its $529 million worldwide total is the second best among the Godzilla titles.

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire is also the highest grossing Monsterverse film overall, narrowly edging Kong: Skull Island ($568.7 million) on the worldwide total. Kong: Skull Island holds the biggest international haul in the series at $400.6 million, while Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire leads worldwide. International figures cover every market outside the United States, China included, and no country-by-country split is published in the sources behind these numbers.

The lowest earner is Godzilla: King of the Monsters at $387.3 million worldwide, and the lowest domestic gross belongs to Godzilla vs. Kong at $100.9 million. Box Office Mojo supplies the grosses for every film except Godzilla (2014), which comes from The Numbers. Budgets for Kong: Skull Island and Godzilla: King of the Monsters come from Box Office Mojo; budgets for Godzilla (2014), Godzilla vs. Kong and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire come from The Numbers. For Kong: Skull Island, the two sites disagree on the international and worldwide grosses, and the Box Office Mojo figures are the ones used.

The series total counts released films only. Godzilla x Kong: Supernova has no gross yet: Legendary Entertainment lists a US date of March 26, 2027, with Warner Bros. distributing. For the full release sequence, see Monsterverse movies in order, and for the upcoming film see Godzilla x Kong: Supernova.

Yes, the Monsterverse has been a commercial success: all five films grossed at least 2.28 times their budgets and the series reached $2.53 billion worldwide combined. A gross to budget multiple is not profit (marketing costs and theater splits sit outside these figures), so I treat it only as a way to compare the films with each other.

The multiples, worldwide gross divided by budget, run like this: Godzilla (2014), directed by Gareth Edwards, 3.31; Kong: Skull Island (2017), directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts, 3.07; Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), directed by Michael Dougherty, 2.28; Godzilla vs. Kong (2021), directed by Adam Wingard, 3.03; and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024), also directed by Wingard, 4.24. The whole series comes out at 3.14.

Is Godzilla: King of the Monsters a hit or a flop? It is the weakest performer in the series, with the lowest worldwide gross ($387.3 million) and the lowest gross to budget multiple (2.28) on a $170 million budget. Why did it earn less than the others? I will not guess at a cause. What the figures show is a film that earned $110.5 million at home against the $200.7 million that Godzilla (2014) made.

Godzilla vs. Kong was a hit by worldwide multiple (3.03) but the weakest domestic earner in the series, at $100.9 million. Its $369.2 million international gross is the third best, so only about 21.5% of its worldwide total came from the domestic market, against about 37.9% for Godzilla (2014). In my opinion, that split makes it a soft spot by domestic numbers alone.

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire had the smallest budget in the series ($135 million) and the biggest worldwide gross, giving the best multiple of the five at 4.24. That being said, its worldwide lead over Kong: Skull Island is narrow, $572 million against $568.7 million, so the efficiency story is stronger than the scale story.

Has any single movie matched the series total? No single Monsterverse film has come close, since the best is $572 million. The series reaches its figure only as a combined total, at $2.53 billion. For how the films stack up on quality rather than money, Monsterverse movies ranked takes a side.