List of highest-grossing films based on video games
This is a list of the highest-grossing films based on video games, primarily both live-action and animated films.
, Nintendo's The Super Mario Bros. Movie is the highest-grossing video game film, while Pokémon is the highest-grossing video game film franchise and Resident Evil the highest-grossing video game live-action film franchise.
Criteria
Any type of video game, including RPGs, visual novels, digital pets and pocket gadgets, is included on the list. Exceptionally, films such as Tron, Wreck-It Ralph, Pixels, and Ready Player One are inspired by video games, but are not adapted from any actual video game; as such, they are not included. Physical games, or board games like Dungeons & Dragons and Ouija, are also not included.List of highest-grossing video game film adaptations
The following is a list of grossing films based on video games, all films have had a theatrical run since 1993, films that have not played during this period do not appear on the chart because of ticket-price inflation, population size and ticket purchasing trends not being considered.Pokémon is the most frequent franchise with 12 films on the list, while Nintendo is the most frequent publisher with 15 films on the list. As the only video game film to gross $1 billion worldwide, The Super Mario Bros. Movie ranks among the 50 highest-grossing films of all time.
List of highest-grossing video game film adaptations adjusted for inflation
"Because of the long-term effects of inflation, notably the significant increase of movie theater ticket prices, the list unadjusted for inflation gives far more weight to later films. The unadjusted list, while commonly found in the press, is therefore largely meaningless for comparing films widely separated in time, as many films from earlier eras will never appear on a modern unadjusted list, despite achieving higher commercial success when adjusted for price increases. To compensate for the devaluation of the currency, some charts make adjustments for inflation, but not even this practice fully addresses the issue, since ticket prices and inflation do not necessarily parallel one another. For example, in 1970, tickets cost $1.55 or about $6.68 in inflation-adjusted 2004 dollars; by 1980, prices had risen to about $2.69, a drop to $5.50 in inflation-adjusted 2004 dollars. Ticket prices have also risen at different rates of inflation around the world, further complicating the process of adjusting worldwide grosses."This chart only lists the domestic inflation
Sonic the Hedgehog is the most frequent franchise on the list with 3 films. SEGA is the most frequent publisher on the list with 3 films. The Super Mario Bros. Movie retains its #1 spot.
| Rank | Peak | Title | Based on video game | Original game publisher | US and Canada inflation Gross | Year |
| 1 | 1 | The Super Mario Bros. Movie | Super Mario Bros. | Nintendo | $594,379,090 | 2023 |
| 2 | 2 | A Minecraft Movie | Minecraft | Mojang Studios | $412,079,959 | 2025 |
| 3 | 1 | Lara Croft: Tomb Raider | Tomb Raider | Eidos Interactive | $249,776,373 | 2001 |
| 4 | 3 | Sonic the Hedgehog 3 | Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic the Hedgehog | Sega | $236,100,420 | 2024 |
| 5 | 3 | Sonic the Hedgehog 2 | Sonic the Hedgehog | Sega | $195,404,554 | 2022 |
| 6 | 1 | Pokémon: The First Movie | Pokémon | The Pokémon Company | $181,752,395 | 1999 |
| 7 | 1 | Mortal Kombat | Mortal Kombat | Midway Games | $174,519,867 | 1995 |
| 8 | 4 | Sonic the Hedgehog | Sonic the Hedgehog | Sega | $171,524,676 | 2020 |
| 9 | 4 | Detective Pikachu | Detective Pikachu and Pokemon | The Pokemon Company | $169,591,230 | 2019 |
| 10 | 6 | Uncharted | Uncharted | Sony Interactive Entertainment | $152,177,994 | 2022 |
Highest-grossing video game films by year
Timeline of highest-grossing video game films
At least eight films have held the record of 'highest-grossing film of all time based on a video game' since the 1993 film Super Mario Bros. assumed the top spot.- Three of the films, Super Mario Bros., Pokémon: The First Movie and The Super Mario Bros. Movie are based on Nintendo video games.
- * Pokémon: The First Movie was the first animated film to do so.
- * The Super Mario Bros. Movie was the first film to reach the half billion and billion dollar marks at the box-office.
- Each three early films are the first time to do so in three consecutive years in the mid-1990s.
| Title | Record-setting gross | Established | Length held | Based on video game | Original game publisher | |
| Super Mario Bros. | $38,912,465 | 1993 | 1 year | Mario | Nintendo | |
| Street Fighter | $99,423,521 | 1994 | 1 year | Street Fighter | Capcom | |
| Mortal Kombat | $124,741,822 | 1995 | 3 years | Mortal Kombat | Midway Games | |
| Pokémon: The First Movie | $172,744,662 | 1998 | 3 years | Pokémon | Nintendo, The Pokémon Company | |
| Lara Croft: Tomb Raider | $274,703,340 | 2001 | 9 years | Tomb Raider | Eidos Interactive | |
| Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | $336,365,676 | 2010 | 6 years | Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | Ubisoft | |
| Warcraft | $439,048,914 | 2016 | 7 years | Warcraft | Blizzard Entertainment | |
| The Super Mario Bros. Movie | $1,363,377,030 | 2023 | Ongoing | Mario | Nintendo |
Timeline of biggest opening weekends for video game films worldwide
| Title | Record-setting gross | Established | Length held | Based on video game | Original game publisher | |
| Super Mario Bros. | $8,532,623* | 1993 | 2 years | Super Mario Bros. | Nintendo | |
| Mortal Kombat | $23,283,887* | 1995 | 4 years | Mortal Kombat | Midway Games | |
| Pokémon: The First Movie | $31,036,678* | 1999 | 2 years | Pokémon | Nintendo, The Pokémon Company | |
| Lara Croft: Tomb Raider | $47,735,743* | 2001 | 13 years | Tomb Raider | Eidos Interactive | |
| Need for Speed | $63,400,000 | 2014 | 2 years | Need for Speed | Electronic Arts | |
| Warcraft | $65,141,191C | June 2016 | 6 months | Warcraft | Blizzard Entertainment | |
| Resident Evil: The Final Chapter | $94,335,503C | December 2016 | 3 years | Resident Evil | Capcom | |
| Pokémon Detective Pikachu | $161,000,000 | 2019 | 4 years | Detective Pikachu and Pokémon | Nintendo, The Pokémon Company | |
| The Super Mario Bros. Movie | $375,579,730 | 2023 | Ongoing | Super Mario Bros. | Nintendo |
Highest-grossing film series and film franchises based on video games
The following is a list of the highest-grossing film series and film franchises based on video games. Pokémon sits as the highest-grossing franchise with over at the box office, while Mario has the best average with per film.Video game films by number of box office admissions
The following table lists known estimated box office ticket sales for various high-grossing video games films that have sold more than 1million tickets worldwide.Note that some of the data are incomplete due to a lack of available admissions data from a number of countries. Therefore, it is not an exhaustive list of all the highest-grossing video game films by ticket sales, so no rankings are given.
| Title | Year | Ticket sales | Based on video game | Original game publisher | |
| The Super Mario Bros. Movie | 2023 | 168,100,000 | Mario | Nintendo | |
| Warcraft | 2016 | 60,597,988 | Warcraft | Blizzard Entertainment | |
| Pokémon Detective Pikachu | 2019 | 53,536,224 | Detective Pikachu and Pokémon | Nintendo, The Pokémon Company | |
| Sonic the Hedgehog | 2020 | 41,078,604 | Sonic the Hedgehog | Sega | |
| Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | 2010 | 40,926,883 | Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | Ubisoft | |
| Pokémon: The First Movie | 1998 | 36,837,706 | Pokémon | Nintendo, The Pokémon Company | |
| Pokémon: The Movie 2000 | 1999 | 19,568,660 | Pokémon | Nintendo, The Pokémon Company | |
| Pokémon 3: The Movie | 2001 | 10,114,749 | Pokémon | Nintendo, The Pokémon Company | |
| Digimon: The Movie | 2000 | 6,546,909 | Digimon | Bandai |
Biggest opening weekends for a video game film worldwide
The following is a list of video game movies which have opened to more than $10 million.- * = North America only
- = China only
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