Percy Jackson Movies: Every Film and What Came Next

The Percy Jackson movies are two fantasy adventures about a teenager who learns he is the son of a Greek god, released by 20th Century Fox in 2010 and 2013. The first is Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010), directed by Chris Columbus, and the second is Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013), directed by Thor Freudenthal. Together they earned about $426 million worldwide on budgets of $95 million and $90 million, according to Box Office Mojo.

What are the films actually about? Percy Jackson is a teenager with dyslexia and ADHD who lives with his mother Sally and her unpleasant boyfriend Gabe, and who discovers that the gods and monsters of Greek myth are real and that he is the son of Poseidon. The old myths play out in the modern world, so a Fury can attack on a school trip to a museum and Camp Half-Blood can be the place where Percy finds out who he is. The two films keep that idea and spend it on two quests, one to recover a stolen lightning bolt and one to find a magical fleece.

The Lightning Thief is a quest story with a deadline attached. Zeus accuses Poseidon's demigod son of stealing his master lightning bolt and sets the summer solstice as the day the gods go to war. After the Fury attack at the museum, Percy's friend Grover and his teacher Mr. Brunner help him fight her off and get him to Camp Half-Blood, where he learns that Grover is a satyr and Brunner is the centaur Chiron. There he meets the camper Annabeth Chase and the camp's older student Luke Castellan. Logan Lerman leads the cast alongside Brandon T. Jackson, Alexandra Daddario and Jake Abel, with Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Steve Coogan, Rosario Dawson, Uma Thurman and Kevin McKidd among the adults and gods. It runs 118 minutes and is rated PG in the US.

Sea of Monsters begins seven years before its main story, when Thalia Grace sacrifices herself to save her friends and Zeus turns her into a pine tree whose magic protects Camp Half-Blood. In the present, Percy is a camper with Annabeth and Grover, but other campers sneer at him, and then he meets Tyson, a cyclops who turns out to be his half brother. A Colchis bull attacks the camp, the campers learn that Luke has poisoned Thalia's tree and weakened the barrier around the camp, and Annabeth finds that the Golden Fleece could heal it. Mr. D hands the quest to Clarisse. Freudenthal was hired in June 2011 to replace Columbus, who stayed on as a producer, according to the Christian Science Monitor. The film runs 106 minutes and is rated PG in the US, UK and Australia.

Percy Jackson does have a series, but it is a television show and not a third film. The Disney+ series Percy Jackson and the Olympians has a third season, adapting The Titan's Curse, that premieres November 20, 2026, according to Disney. Because the show is a television production, it has no film page on Cinvibe and sits outside the film order. If you searched for Percy Jackson and expected the show, that is the reason.

No studio has said why Fox stopped at two Percy Jackson movies, and no third film has been announced as of November 3, 2026. The box office numbers are the only public data points: The Lightning Thief took about $226 million worldwide on a $95 million budget, while Sea of Monsters took about $200 million on a $90 million budget, with domestic grosses of $88.8 million and $68.6 million. That is a smaller return from the second film, but nothing ties the numbers to a decision, so treat any single explanation as speculation. The full breakdown sits on the Percy Jackson box office page, and the differences between page and screen are covered in Percy Jackson books vs movies.

Disney Plus carries both Percy Jackson movies in the US, UK and Australia, according to availability checked on November 3, 2026. American viewers have extra options: The Lightning Thief is free with ads on Tubi, and both films can be rented or bought through Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube and Fandango At Home.

British viewers can rent or buy either film from Apple TV Store, Rakuten TV, Amazon Video, Sky Store and YouTube. Australian viewers who do not use Disney Plus can only buy, with no rental listed, through Apple TV Store, Amazon Video, YouTube and Fetch TV. Streaming lines shift often, so the where to watch Percy Jackson page keeps the dated, country by country table. If you want a keepsake after the viewing, see Percy Jackson merchandise.