We take a look at the top 25 highest - grossing
video game adaptations at the U.S. box office.
Not exact matches
Thomas Cowley, March 10, 2017,
at 7:00 a.m. Tweet to: @boldirishman Do you remember 2005's prophetically titled movie Doom, an
adaptation of the
video game of the same name?
This second attempt
at a screen
adaptation of the revered Capcom
video game series is unbelievably awful in every aspect.
The
adaptation of the long - running and occasionally beloved
video game series has been filming for a few months now, but details of any kind have been shaky
at best.
Not much as changed with the idea that
video game to film
adaptations are never a good idea, «Silent Hill: Revelation 3D» ensures that trend, and while it's dazzling
at times, it will leave an audience hungry for a better movie and experience.
There's a scene in Rampage, the latest movie
adaptation of an old - ass — sorry, «vintage» —
video game, in which an albino silverback gorilla named George flips the bird
at Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson.
We hope you enjoyed our look
at what properties we would love to see get a
video game adaptation from Telltale Games!
If you look
at video game adaptations, quite often that isn't true.
Based on the Hit Film is a series of articles looking
at the
video game spin - offs and
adaptations of popular horror...
Set aside your concerns about Mark Wahlberg portraying PlayStation 3 action hero Nathan Drake in the big screen
adaptation of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, because it doesn't sound like this movie is based on the
video game at all.
The good people over
at the CinemaBlend recently had the opportunity to chat with producers Andrew Form and Brad Fuller on the progress of the
video game adaptation.
After bringing you a look
at lead Aaron Paul preparing for his role in a «driving school» featurette yesterday, we've an official look
at the feature film
adaptation of
video game, NEED FOR SPEED in another mini
video.
New Line Cinema's sequel to the surprise 2013 horror hit «The Conjuring» is set to dominate the weekend, even as it faces off against Universal's big - budgeted
video game adaptation «Warcraft, which is expected to tank
at the domestic box office.
The film opened to number one
at the box office with $ 47.7 million, the biggest opening for a
video game adaptation since Mortal Kombat in 1995 and the biggest opening for a movie with a female lead.
Perhaps that's why he so often finds projects disintegrate in front of his eyes, whether it's his third Hellboy movie, a high profile
adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's
At the Mountains of Madness, or his involvement in the promising cancelled Silent Hill
video game reboot alongside the Guillermo Del Toro of gaming, Hideo Kojima.
The
adaptation, directed by Moon's Duncan Jones, was not well - received by critics and opened lower than other
video game counterparts
at the box office.
Not only did the franchise defy the rules of
video game adaptations failing miserably
at the box office, but it also gave us possibly cinema's best female action heroine since Sigourney Weaver's Ripley.
Take another look
at this upcoming
video game adaptation from director Duncan Jones.
One of these trends is the fact that with almost every big summer blockbuster movie comes a
video game adaptation, usually a poor one
at that.
With
video game movie
adaptations not having the best of reputations (just look
at the performance of last year's Hitman: Agent 47),
gamers are still waiting for that truly -LSB-...]
Constantin Film's «Monster Hunter,» the
video game adaptation budgeted
at around $ 60 million, will go into production starting in September, re-teaming Constantin with its «Resident Evil» star Milla Jovovich, director Paul W. S. Anderson and producer Jeremy Bolt.
Depending on how you look
at it, the original Rampage gaming property's lack of plot gives the movie version an advantage / disadvantage over past
adaptations of
video game franchises with denser mythologies (a la Warcraft and Assassin's Creed).
The movie is lacking in substance, yet it avoids getting bogged down in a convoluted mythology - something that has tripped up other
video game adaptations in recent years - and should offer a perfectly enjoyable watch
at home, since it's not necessarily worth a trip to the theater.
Probably best known to UK audiences for his role as Sean Slater in Eastenders, we have just been given our first look
at Robert Kazinsky's character from the upcoming
video game adaptation, WARCRAFT.
There's also the fact that, if P.T. Anderson was going to pick a fight with a director best known for crappy
video game adaptations, Boll wouldn't even be
at the top of the list; after all, Anderson's still got unresolved beef to handle with his nominal doppelganger, Resident Evil's Paul W.S. Anderson, first.
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At the same time, this is not the kind of
video game adaptation you often see, with a lot of CGI and effects.
The wrestler - turned - actor is negotiations to star in Duke Nukem, a big - screen
adaptation of the popular
video game franchise featuring the politically incorrect action hero that is set up
at Paramount.
Telltale Games»
adaptation of Robert Kirkman's Image Comics title scored big
at the annual Spike
Video Game awards, taking home
Game of the Year honors, Studio of the Year and more.
Today weâ $ ™ ll discuss the latest news regarding the Uncharted film, what Uwe Boll said about Alone in the Dark 5, and look
at the release of films and their
video game adaptations...
Granted, some (including myself) might argue that
video games becoming more and more like movies makes actual movie
adaptations of them entirely redundant, but
at the very least it should allow them to be translated onto the silver screen with less appalling results than what we've been getting.
Some of the earlier film
adaptations of
games — such as Super Mario Bros. or Street Fighter —
at least had something of an excuse for their less - than stellar quality, seeing as the idea of bringing the worlds of
video games to life on the big screen was new territory back then.
We lately mentioned how
video game - to - film diversifications often fall by way of the cracks with uncommon exceptions, such because the Five Nights
at Freddy's movie
adaptation discovering a director lately.