The following lists the highest-grossing film adaptations based on video games, including

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. Films such as ''

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, but are not adapted from any actual video game, so are not included. Any types of video games such as visual novels and digital pets are included, with the exception of physical games or outside of video games like ''

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'' and ''

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Warcraft ''Warcraft'' is a franchise of video games, novels, and other media created by Blizzard Entertainment. The series is made up of five core games: '' Warcraft: Orcs & Humans'', '' Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness'', '' Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos ...

'' is the highest-grossing film adaptation based on video games, while ''

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'' is the highest-grossing film franchise based on video games.

List of highest-grossing video game film adaptations

Highest-grossing video game films by year

Timeline of highest-grossing video game films

At least seven films have held the record of 'highest-grossing film of all time based on a video game' since the 1993 film ''

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'' assumed the top spot. * Two of the films, ''Super Mario Bros.'' and '' Pokémon: The First Movie'', are based on

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. * ''Pokémon: The First Movie'' is the only animated film to do so. * Each three early films are the first time to do so in three consecutive years (1993-1995) in mid-1990s to held.

Timeline of biggest opening weekends for video game films

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. ''

'' sits as the highest-grossing franchise with nearly at the box office, while ''

Sonic the Hedgehog is a Japanese video game series and media franchise created by Sega. The franchise follows Sonic, an anthropomorphic blue hedgehog who battles the evil Doctor Eggman, a mad scientist. The main ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' games are platformers mo ...

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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.

Highest-grossing video game films by markets

Biggest opening weekends for a video game film

The following is a list of video games movies which have opened to more than $10 million. * * =

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References

Franchise and series sources

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