What is the most commercially successful movie adaption of a video game?
I was listening to a talk show predicting flops this summer and it was argued that upcoming video game adaptations would be flops.
So I was wondering which video game adaptations had been commercially successful, and which individual movie has made the most money at the box office? Tomb Raider comes to mind. I don't think Wing Commander was a big hit...
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Based on this list of "most successful movie franchise", the first Video-game-to-movie translation I can see is:
Resident Evil
Which wikipedia reports has earned more than $900m in ticket sales across 7 films, internationally.
The single highest grossing individual film appears to be
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
which earned its studio over $300M at the box office.
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In the years since the last answer was released a couple of films have topped it in the global box-office
Warcraft earned $433.7M in 2016
Rampage earned $428.0M in 2018
The Angry Birds Movie earned $352.3 in 2016 as well
Detective Pikachu earned $431.6M in 2019
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