Highest Grossing movies based on Video Games
Only two video game adaptations have ever passed the $1B mark, and both of them star Mario. A Minecraft Movie turned a $150M budget into $960M, more than 6 times its cost and one of the best returns of any franchise. Despite critics giving it only 43% on Rotten Tomatoes, The Angry Birds Movie made almost 5 times its $73M budget. Methodology: This October 2026 research by the live-streaming platform Zero1 examined popular movies based on video games to find which ones made the most money in theaters. Films were ranked by their ticket sales through September 2026, using figures from Box Office Mojo and The Numbers. The report then compared each film's earnings to its production budget and looked at how much of the money came from outside the US and Canada. It also checked critic scores and how well each film held up in US theaters after its opening weekend, showing which adaptations earned the most. The Super Mario Bros. Movie is the highest-grossing video game film of all...