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Mario owns the two biggest video game movies ever. Here are all 10 top earners

Mario made $1.36B on a $100M budget and Minecraft turned $150M into $960M. Here are the 10 video game films that earned the most

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Video game movies keep earning back their budgets at the box office, and more adaptations arrive every year. Only two have ever passed $1 billion, and both of them star Mario.

Zero1, a live-streaming platform, ranked the 10 top-earning adaptations by ticket sales through September 2026 using Box Office Mojo and The Numbers, then compared each film's gross with its budget and international share to show which ones earned the most.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie

The Super Mario Bros. Movie grossed $1.36 billion worldwide against a $100 million budget, a return of 13.6 times that Zero1 found is higher than any other video game adaptation on the list. The next best return, 9.2 times, belongs to its own sequel.

The U.S. and Canada alone paid $575 million to see it, which is more than Sonic the Hedgehog 3 earned everywhere in the world. International audiences supplied the other 57.7% of the total.

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie takes second place with $1.01 billion, which makes Mario the only franchise with two films past the........

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