Twilight Box Office: Total, Budgets and Every Film

The five Twilight films earned about $3.43 billion worldwide, according to Box Office Mojo, with roughly $1.37 billion from the domestic market and $2.07 billion from international markets. Together they cost $385 million to make. Every figure in the table comes from each film's Box Office Mojo title page, checked on November 3, 2026.

Which Twilight movie is the highest grossing? The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2, directed by Bill Condon, took $888.9 million worldwide, more than double the $405.5 million earned by Twilight (2008), directed by Catherine Hardwicke. Its international gross of $595.7 million is the largest in the series, and it made up about two thirds of the film's worldwide total.

The domestic picture is tighter than the worldwide one. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, directed by David Slade, holds the best domestic total at $300.5 million, just ahead of The Twilight Saga: New Moon at $296.6 million, directed by Chris Weitz. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2, both directed by Condon, earned $281.8 million and $293.1 million at home. Every film in the saga earned at least $195.6 million domestically, and the first one was released by Summit Entertainment on a $37 million budget.

If you want the full run in sequence, see Twilight movies in order, or start from the Twilight movies hub. The animated series Twilight: Midnight Sun, ordered by Netflix in September 2024, is television and is not counted in these film figures.

In my opinion, Twilight was a clear hit, because the five films earned about 8.9 times their combined $385 million budget at the worldwide box office. A gross is not the same as profit, since studios split ticket revenue with theaters and spend heavily on marketing, so the better way to read these numbers is as a measure of how far each film outran its cost.

On that measure, The Twilight Saga: New Moon is the standout. It cost $50 million and grossed $709.8 million, which is about 14 times its budget and the best return in the saga. Twilight (2008) comes next at roughly 11 times its cost, helped by a modest $37 million budget. Hardwicke's film also saw its release move from December 12 to November 21, 2008.

The later films tell a different story. Budgets climbed to $110 million for Breaking Dawn Part 1 and $120 million for Breaking Dawn Part 2, and the multiples fell to about 6.7 and 7.4. Condon shot both films back to back, with Baton Rouge filming wrapping around February 2011. Part 2 still delivered the biggest absolute gross in the series, and it did so mostly overseas.

That international shift is the real arc of the saga. Twilight (2008) earned about 52 percent of its money outside the United States and Canada, while Breaking Dawn Part 2 earned about 67 percent there. That being said, the domestic numbers barely moved, hovering between $281.8 million and $300.5 million for the last four films, so growth came from abroad rather than from a bigger American audience. For a parent weighing whether the series was a fluke, the steadiness is the answer: five films, five hits, and none that lost money on a gross basis.

If you would like to see how the films compare on story rather than receipts, Twilight movies ranked puts them in order, and Twilight reviews collects our verdicts.