13. Need for Speed ($203 million)

Walt Disney’s Need for Speed is based on the racing video game franchise of the same name, which is phenomenally successful and has sold 140 million copies to date. Making a movie based on a franchise with millions of fans is a no-brainer, and obviously appeals to boys fond of racing films such as Fast and Furious.

The film itself is entertaining enough, even if a devious entrepreneur played by Michael Keaton, provides too much exposition. It would be great if filmmakers stopped insulting their audience’s intelligence, but this is a video game movie after all…

And given that the movie made $203 million worldwide (and that it was made for a relatively modest budget of $60 million), it was a hit for Disney, meaning that for better or worse there might be more Need for Speed movies in the pipeline.

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