Video Game Movies are Making a Rise in Hollywood

Video Game Movies are Making a Rise in Hollywood

Lila Heuvelink, Staff Reporter

Since it’s inception, Hollywood has created thousands of blockbusters. However, a new trend based has took the industry by storm in the past few years: Video Game Movies. Recently the “Super Mario Bros Movie” hit theaters, and in less than a month it already gained 888.5 million dollars in box office revenue. Which leads to the question, what is next for Hollywood movies? People are leading away from movies that were just made for cash grabs and heading off into the world of video games. The hit show “The Last of Us” recently finished airing and many critics are saying it ranks among the all-time greatest video game adaptations. This is another form of mainstream video games hitting the large screen as movies or TV shows.