List of highest-grossing films based on video games
The following lists the highest-grossing film adaptations based on video games, including live-action and animated films. Films such as Wreck-It Ralph, Pixels, and Ready Player One are inspired by video games, but are not adapted from any actual video game, so are not included. Any types of video games, including visual novels and digital pets, are included. Physical games, or board games like Dungeons & Dragons and Ouija, are not included. , The Super Mario Bros. Movie is the highest-grossing video game film, while Pokémon is the highest-grossing video game film franchise. List of highest-grossing video game film adaptations 
 
The following is a list of grossing films based on video games, all films has had a theatrical run (including re-releases) 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, whiles Nintendo is the most frequent publisher with 15 films on the list. 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 (1993-1995) in mid-1990s to held. Timeline of biggest opening weekends for video game films worldwide

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 nearly  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. Highest-grossing video game films by markets

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

See also 
 List of films based on video games
 List of best-selling video game franchises
 List of best-selling video games

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