What is the most commercially successful movie adaption of a video game?

ubuntu_ulysses

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...

Originally asked by raphael on Stack Exchange (movies) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

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.

Full answer by user7812: https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/52594 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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