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David Ayer

1968 (58 years old)Directing

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Total Movies
13
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Total Box Office
$3.50B
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Domestic Gross
49%
$1.71B
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International Gross
51%
$1.79B
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Average per Movie
$134.6M
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Total Budget
$1.17B
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Profitability Gap
+$396.3M
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Avg ROI
3.1x
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Opening Weekends
$605.0M
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Highest Grossing
$749.2M
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Biography

David Ayer (born January 18, 1968) is an American filmmaker known for making crime films that are set in Los Angeles and deal with gangs and police corruption. His screenplays include Training Day (2001), The Fast and the Furious (2001), and S.W.A.T. (2003). He has also directed Harsh Times (2005), Street Kings (2008), End of Watch (2012), Sabotage (2014), and The Beekeeper (2024). In 2016, he directed the superhero movie Suicide Squad from the DC Extended Universe and then the urban fantasy film Bright (2017) for Netflix. He has twice collaborated with actor Shia LaBeouf: first with the World War II drama Fury (2014), then the crime thriller The Tax Collector (2020). He has also collaborated with his friend Cle Shaheed Sloan, who has appeared in four of his films. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Ayer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Personal Information

BirthdayJanuary 18, 1968
Place of BirthChampaign, Illinois, USA
Known ForDirecting
Also Known As
دیوید آیر