It's official–Jerry Bruckheimer's latest movie, The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, has become the highest grossing movie based on a video game. Excluding DVD sales, the movie has made an impressive $312,583,548 worldwide as of publishing. This is great news for video game fans all over the world, video game-based movies typically don't fare so well with box office earnings and critic approval.
Unfortunately, most movie adaptations of video game franchises don't do so well in the box office. Now that we know that what film made the top of the list, what are some of the ones that didn't make much money at all? The following is a list of Hollywood's highest-to-lowest grossing films based on video games.
1. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Release Date: May 9, 2010
Total Gross Revenue: $312,583,548
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2. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Release Date: June 15, 2001
Total Gross Revenue: $274,703,340
3. Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
Release Date: July 25, 2003
Total Gross Revenue: $156,505,388
4. Resident Evil: Extinction
Release Date: September 21, 2007
Total Gross Revenue: $147,717,833
5. Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Release Date: September 10, 2004
Total Gross Revenue: $129,394,835
6. Mortal Kombat
Release Date: August 18, 1995
Total Gross Revenue: $122,195,920
7. Resident Evil
Release Date: March 15, 2002
Total Gross Revenue: $102,441,078
8. Hitman
Release Date: November 21, 2007
Total Gross Revenue: $99,965,792
9. Street Fighter
Release Date: December 23, 1994
Total Gross Revenue: $99,423,521
10. Silent Hill
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Total Gross Revenue: $97,607,453
11. Max Payne
Release Date: October 17, 2008
Total Gross Revenue: $85,416,905
12. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Release Date: July 2, 2001
Total Gross Revenue: $85,131,830
13. Doom
Release Date: October 21, 2005
Total Gross Revenue: $55,987,321
14. Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
Release Date: November 21, 1997
Total Gross Revenue: $51,376,861[15. Super Mario Bros
Release Date: May 28, 1993
Total Gross Revenue: $20,915,465
16. House of the Dead
Release Date: October 10, 2003
Total Gross Revenue: $13,818,181
17. In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
Release Date: January 11, 2008
Total Gross Revenue: $13,097,915
18. Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
Release Date: February 27, 2009
Total Gross Revenue: $12,764,201
19. Wing Commander
Release Date: March 12, 1999
Total Gross Revenue: $11,578,059
20. Alone in the Dark
Release Date: January 28, 2005
Total Gross Revenue: $8,191,971
21. DOA: Dead or Alive
Release Date: June 15, 2007
Total Gross Revenue: $7,516,532
22. BloodRayne
Release Date: January 4, 2006
Total Gross Revenue: $3,650,275
23. Double Dragon
Release Date: November 4, 1994
Total Gross Revenue: $2,341,309
24. Postal
Release Date: August 26, 2008
Total Gross Revenue: $146,741 [source: boxofficemojo.com]
