Kevin James Biggest Box Office Movie Hits and Flops

Kevin James is a comedian and actor best known for his starring role on the TV show The King of Queens. The success of that show has lead to a very successful movie career for Kevin James.

Though he has not been in that many movies yet in his career most of the films Kevin James has been in with one notable exception have been big money makers. In addition to the movies listed below Kevin James had small minor roles in 50 First Dates (2004) and You Don't Mess With the Zohan (2008). He also voiced minor characters in the animated films Pinoccio (2001), Monster House (2006) and Barnyard: The Original Party Animals (2006).

Kevin James is in the new comedy The Dilemma with Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Connelly and Winona Ryder and is also providing the lead voice in the animated Zookeeper to be released to theaters on July 8, 2011.

These are the biggest box office movie hits and flops in the career of Kevin James.

Kevin James Biggest Box Office Movie Hits

1) Hitch (2005) - $368 million

Hitch is the first movie Kevin James had a starring role in and its the best grossing movie so far in his career. Will Smith and Eva Mendes co-starred in the popular comedy. Hitch had a budget of $70 million and made $368 million worldwide at the box office.

2) Grown Ups (2010) - $271 million

Adam Sandler wrote the script and his production company Happy Madison produced the comedy Grown Ups in which Kevin James co-stars alongside Sandler, Chris Rock, David Spade, Rob Schneider, Salma Hayek and Maria Bello. With a budget of $80 million Grown Ups cleared almost $200 million at the box office.

3) I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007) - $186 million

In the comedy I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry Kevin James plays a widower fireman with two kids who marries Adam Sandler so Sandler's character can take care of the two kids if anything happens to Kevin James' character.

Critics absolutely hated this movie and Adam Sandler reportedly tried to remove his name from the credits at one point but moviegoers flocked to see the film. I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry had a budget of $85 million so it cleared over $100 million at the box office worldwide.

4) Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009) - $183 million

Kevin James wrote and starred in Paul Blart: Mall Cop while Adam Sandler produced the film which was released in January of 2009. Critics hated the comedy which featured James as a mall security guard who battles bad guy thieves after hours at a suburban shopping mall. But moviegoers loved the movie and Paul Blart: Mall Cop became one of the rare January release movies to become a genuine hit.

The plot of the movie is supposed to take place in a suburban New Jersey shopping mall in West Orange, NJ. The real-life Willowbrook Mall in Wayne, NJ, not far from West Orange was chosen for filming but the mall refused to issue a permit for filming. So the movie was actually shot at the Burlington Mall in Burlington, Massachusetts.

With a budget of just $26 million Paul Blart: Mall Cop cleared $157 million dollars at the box office and the movie made another $50 million in DVD sales in 2009 alone.

Kevin James biggest Box Office Movie Flops

1) Grilled (2006) - $0 dollars at the box office worldwide

Grilled is a comedy starring Kevin James and his comedian TV friend Ray Romano. The movie features Romano and James as door-to-door meat salesmen who end up getting on the bad side of the Mob.

The movie was so bad the studio pushed off releasing it to theaters in 2005 and then ended up just releasing it straight to video. So Grilled never made a penny at the box office worldwide.

Grilled was a disaster and remains the lone movie in Kevin James' career that was a flop.

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Sources:

Box Office Mojo

Kevin James at Wikipedia