Ever since I started compiling Top 10 of Everything, I have been maintaining a database of films in which I list details about them – especially how much they made at the world box office. I update this constantly and from it I am able to create Top 10 lists based on film genres, the highest-earning films of particular years or decades, of actors and actresses, directors, studios and so on. With the release of the animated film, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, the number of entries in the database has just hit 10,000!
Among the recent Top 10 film lists I have based on this information is one on the Top 10 Films Based on Computer Games – with pretty much every one of them earning upwards of $100 million worldwide, the link between computer games and films has proved hugely profitable:
Top 10 Films Based on Computer Games
| Film | Game* | Film | |
| 1 | Lara Croft: Tomb Raider | 1996 | 2001 |
| 2 | AVP: Alien Vs. Predator | 1999 | 2004 |
| 3 | Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life | 1996 | 2003 |
| 4 | Resident Evil: Extinction | 1996 | 2007 |
| 5 | Resident Evil: Apocalypse | 1996 | 2004 |
| 6 | Mortal Kombat | 1992 | 1995 |
| 7 | Resident Evil | 1996 | 2002 |
| 8 | Hitman | 2000 | 2007 |
| 9 | Street Fighter | 1987 | 1994 |
| 10 | Silent Hill | 1999 | 2006 |
* Original if series
I have also been working on other film lists on everything from Top 10 Horror Remakes to the 10 Latest People to Receive a Posthumous Oscar. We all know about Heath Ledger’s for his role in Dark Knight, but spare a thought for poor old Raymond Rasch and Larry Russell, who got theirs for the music for Limelight. The film was made in 1952, but the blacklisting of the film’s star, Charlie Chaplin, meant that it was not released and the Oscars not awarded until 1972, by which time both men were dead. Even that’s not the end of the story: it was recently claimed that another arranger, Russell Garcia, should have been credited and that Larry Russell received his Oscar by mistake!
