Yet Another Movie Wars Episode 7y437: The Fellowship of the Rings

Original idea

1) Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip: $7,780,693

2) Porky's $51,862,059 (x8)

3) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial $133,274,165 (x16)

4) An Officer and a Gentleman $12,220,469 (x2)

5) *Creepshow $5,870,889

6) The Toy: $6,322,804

7) Tootsie $24,232,510 (x3)

In 1983: $71,628,830 (x11)

Total: $313,192,419

Continuation

1) Rocky III $12,431,486

2) Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: $14,347,221

3) Friday the 13th Part III $9,406,522

4) Amityville II: The Possession $4,104,277

5) Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (Re-issue)
$3,949,478

Total: $44,238,984

Based on something

1) Conan the Barbarian $16,477,181 (x2) (pulp-fiction)

2) The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas: $11,874,268 (Broadway musical)

3) First Blood $15,624,092 (x3) (novel)

Total: $43,975,541

Winner: Original idea

*Creepshow is a homage to 50's horror comics House of Mystery, House of Secrets, Tales from the Crypt, The Vault of Horror and The Haunt of Fear but it's not based on anything specific

Continuation

1) Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi $90,219,844 (x6)

2) Superman III $13,352,357

3) Staying Alive $12,146,143

4) Jaws 3-D: $13,422,500

5) Amityville 3-D $2,366,472

6) Sudden Impact $22,790,280 (x3)

Total: $154,297,596

Based on something

1) High Road to China $6,156,049 (novel)

2) National Lampoon's Vacation $21,686,839 (x3) (short story)

3) Never Say Never Again $27,724,256 (x4) (novel)

4) A Christmas Story $3,935,944

4) Terms of Endearment $12,183,990 (x2)

In 1984: $17,957,864 (x4) (novel)

5) Silkwood $3,547,122 (carried into 1984) (Karen Silkwood)

Total: $93,192,064

Original idea

1) Spring Break $10,357,395 (x2)

2) Lone Wolf McQuade $4,295,300

3) Flashdance $10,856,650 (x3)

4) Blue Thunder $8,258,149

5) Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone $7,053,016

6) Easy Money $5,844,974

7) Mr. Mom $26,420,736 (x5)

8) The Big Chill $6,591,395 (x2)

9) Deal of the Century $3,520,605

Total: $83,198,220

Winner: Continuation

Original idea

1) Footloose $21,475,313 (x3)

2) Splash $12,626,242 (x2)

3) Police Academy $34,870,723 (x5)

4) Breakin' $6,047,686

5) Ghostbusters $92,172,760 (x9)

6) *Purple Rain $7,766,201

7) Red Dawn $8,230,381

8) Tightrope $27,504,426 (x4)

9) All of Me $11,062,269 (x2)

10) Teachers $15,041,262 (x3)

11) The Terminator $8,240,126 (x2)

12) Missing in Action $9,122,680 (x2)

13) Beverly Hills Cop $62,491,198 (x2)

In 1985: $72,349,658 (x10)

Total: $389,000,925

Continuation

1) Unfaithfully Yours $3,774,126

2) Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter $11,183,148

3) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: $33,936,113

4) Star Trek III: The Search for Spock $16,673,295

5) Oh, God! You Devil $5,560,001

6) **Supergirl $5,738,249

Total: $76,864,932

Based on something

The Natural $10,511,614 (x2) (novel)

Total: $10,511,614

Winner: Original idea

*The film isn't a direct bio pick of Prince

**It's a spin-off

Continuation

1) Friday the 13th: A New Beginning $8,032,883

2) Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment $28,743,819 (x4)

3) Rambo: First Blood Part II $59,370,634 (x4)

4) National Lampoon's European Vacation: $12,329,627

5) Death Wish 3 $8,480,795 (x2)

6) Rocky IV $57,589,950 (x5)

In 1986: $7,147,074

Total: $181,694,782

Original idea

1) Witness $4,506,587

2) Code of Silence $11,899,043 (x3)

3) *Pale Rider $9,119,111

4) Back to the Future $85,027,831 (x11)

5) Invasion U.S.A. $6,891,609

6) Commando $18,411,178 (x3)

7) Jagged Edge $3,216,053

8) Once Bitten $4,025,657

Total: $143,097,069

Based on something

1) Stick $3,358,299 (novel)

2) Cocoon $7,936,427 (novel)

3) King Solomon's Mines $5,005,788 (novel)

4) Out of Africa $5,137,370 (carried into 1986) (novel)

5) The Color Purple $4,412,456 (carried into 1986) (novel)

Total: $25,850,340

Winner: Continuation

* It's not technically speaking a remake of Shane

Original idea

1) *Iron Eagle $6,104,754

2) Pretty in Pink $10,985,538 (x2)

3) Gung Ho $7,170,830

4) The Money Pit $3,646,200

5) Legend $6,852,905 (x2)

6) Short Circuit $5,346,808

7) Top Gun $19,717,148 (x3)

8) Back to School $8,881,035

9) Crocodile Dundee $64,154,938 (x9)

10) The Golden Child $29,545,887 (x3)

In 1987: $11,171,277 (x2)

11) **Platoon $37,623,440 (x4) (carried into 1987)

Total: $211,200,760

Continuation

1) Police Academy 3: Back in Training $19,890,323 (x3)

2) The Karate Kid, Part II $34,475,701 (x4)

3) Aliens $31,531,787 (x4)

4) The Fly $11,733,393 (x2)

5) Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home $25,715,706 (x2)

Total: $123,346,910

Based on something

1) Down and Out in Beverly Hills $23,905,265 (x4) (play)

2) Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling $4,879,107 (semi-autobiographical flick of Richard Pryor)

3) Cobra $23,163,689 (x2) (novel)

4) Stand by Me $11,474,880 (x3) (novel)

Total: $63,422,941

*Although based on 1981 Gulf of Sidra incident. It's not a direct adaptation of the issue. So it's not counted

**Although Platoon is based on Stone's experience in Vietnam. It's not an adaptation of anything specific

Winner: Original idea

Original idea

1) Critical Condition $9,051,509 (x2)

2) Lethal Weapon $20,224,114 (x3)

3) Blind Date $7,531,273

4) The Secret of My Succe$s $29,210,892 (x5)

5) Ishtar $4,331,817

6) Predator $12,031,638

7) RoboCop $14,341,437 (x2)

8) Stakeout $27,138,094 (x5)

9) Fatal Attraction $64,445,371 (x8)

10) Throw Momma from the Train $7,318,878

11) Eddie Murphy Raw $9,077,324

12) Good Morning, Vietnam $70,023,280 (x9) (carried into 1988)

Total: $274,725,627

Continuation

1) A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors: $8,880,555

2) Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol $8,482,487

3) Beverly Hills Cop II $62,564,830 (x3)

4) Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise $7,900,879

5) The Living Daylights $18,757,514 (x2)

6) Three Men and a Baby $29,115,453 (x3)

In 1988 $21,226,904 (x2) (remake of French film Trois hommes et un couffin)

Total: $156,928,622

Based on something

1) The Witches of Eastwick $8,251,230 (novel)

2) Dragnet $17,585,319 (x2) (radio series)

3) The Running Man $13,788,720 (x2) (novel)

Total: $39,625,269

Winner: Original idea

Original idea

1) Beetlejuice $30,044,956 (x4)

2) Colors $10,531,936 (x2)

3) Willow $8,300,169

4) Red Heat $8,133,822

5) Coming to America $45,164,917 (x3)

6) Young Guns $7,011,393

7) A Fish Called Wanda $2,555,291

8) Dead Ringers $3,012,180

9) Alien Nation $8,421,429

10) The Accused $4,316,369

11) Child's Play $6,583,963

12) The Land Before Time $7,526,025

13) Twins $27,914,785 (x3)

14) Rain Man $14,350,610

In 1989: $38,727,147 (x5)

Total: $222,594,992

Continuation

1) Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach $6,106,661

2) Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood $8,245,038

3) Crocodile Dundee II $45,699,362 (x3)

4) A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master $26,258,471 (x3)

5) Moon over Parador $3,268,975 (remake of The Magnificent Fraud)

6) Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers $11,341,750 (x2)

Total: $100,920,257

Based on something

1) Biloxi Blues $7,093,325 (play)

2) Who Framed Roger Rabbit $20,145,971 (x2) (novel)

3) Cocktail $19,993,945 (x2) (novel)

4) Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey $3,451,230 (based on Dian Fossey)

5) They Live $4,827,903 (based on Eight O'Clock in the Morning)

6) Scrooged $13,027,842 (A Christmas Carol)

7) The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! $9,331,746 (TV show)

Total: $77,871,962

Winner: Original idea

Continuation

1) Three Fugitives $5,477,051 (remake of Les Fugitifs)

2) The Fly II $6,751,371

3) Fletch Lives $13,693,080 (x2)

4) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade $58,261,737 (x2)

5) Star Trek V: The Final Frontier $17,375,648

6) Ghostbusters II $29,472,894

7) Lethal Weapon 2 $50,599,175 (x3)

8) Back to the Future Part II $40,670,350 (x2)

9) National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation $14,240,908 (x2)

Total: $236,542,214

Original idea

1) The 'Burbs $17,125,677 (x2)

2) Major League $15,907,074 (x2)

3) See No Evil, Hear No Evil $13,203,861 (x2)

4) Turner & Hooch $12,211,042

5) Parenthood $20,178,800 (x2)

6) Uncle Buck $27,893,303 (x4)

7) Sea of Love $10,017,840

8) Black Rain $22,280,167 (x3)

9) Look Who's Talking $60,679,557 (x5)

10) Harlem Nights $16,096,808

Total: $215,594,129

Based on something

1) Lean on Me $9,612,045 (x2) (Biography of Joe Louis Clark)

2) Pet Sematary $26,764,871 (x3) (novel)

3) Batman $70,564,935 (x2) (comic book)

4) The War of the Roses $19,979,575 (x2)(novel)

5) *Born on the Fourth of July $19,120,085 (x3)(carried into 1990) (Biography)

6) Driving Miss Daisy $27,659,901 (x4) (carried into 1990) (play)

Total: $173,701,348

Winner: Continuation

* I know many people will point out that Born on the Fourth of July is part of Stone's Vietnam War trilogy, however technically speaking, it's not an official "sequel"

Original idea

1) Hard to Kill $9,213,631

2) Pretty Woman $32,836,038 (x4)

3) Bird on a Wire $15,338,160

4) Days of Thunder $15,490,445

5) Ghost $39,785,782 (x4)

6) Flatliners $10,034,685

7) Darkman $8,054,860

8) Pacific Heights $6,912,637

9) Marked for Death $24,311,940 (x3)

10) Jacob's Ladder $7,500,760

11) Home Alone $118,534,364 (x7)

In 1990: $48,992,762 (x5)

Total: $337,006,064

Based on something

1) The Hunt for Red October $42,297,966 (x3) (novel)

2) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles $68,074,405 (x4) (comic book)

3) Total Recall $25,533,700 (short story)

4) Dick Tracy $38,090,748 (x2) (pulp-fiction)

5) Presumed Innocent $11,718,981 (novel)

6) Postcards from the Edge $7,871,856 (novel)

7) Goodfellas $6,368,901 (Henry Hill)

8) Graveyard Shift $5,082,300 (short story)

Total: $205,038,857

Continuation

1) Back to the Future Part III $23,703,060

2) Another 48 Hrs. $19,475,559

3) Die Hard 2 $36,256,962 (x2)

4) The Exorcist III $9,312,219

5) Child's Play 2 $10,718,520

Total: $99,466,320

Winner: Original idea

Based on something

1) Sleeping with the Enemy $13,777,943 (novel)

2) *The Silence of the Lambs $52,880,629 (x5) (novel)

3) Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves $43,915,267 (x2) (Robin Hood)

4) Other People's Money $5,012,332 (play)

5) The Addams Family $44,337,370 (x2) (TV show)

6) Hook $38,379,550 (x3)

In 1992: $11,472,860 (novel)

Total: $209,775,951

Continuation

1) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze $40,892,602 (x3)

2) Oscar $9,255,245 (x2) (remake 1967 French film of the same name)

3) F/X2 $5,455,058

4) The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear $20,817,139

5) Terminator 2: Judgment Day $78,450,671 x4)

6) Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare $19,592,903 (x2)

7) House Party 2 $6,027,105

8) Cape Fear $10,261,025

9) Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country $18,162,837

Total: $208,914,585

Original idea

1) Out for Justice $17,540,357 (x2)

2) What About Bob? $9,216,334

3) Backdraft $24,841,875 (x2)

4) City Slickers $13,032,121

5) Hot Shots! $29,865,369 (x4)

6) Dead Again $10,682,199 (x2)

7) The Fisher King $18,164,738 (x3)

8) The People Under the Stairs $5,522,250

9) Curly Sue $4,957,474

Total: $133,822,717

Winner: Based on something

*The film is not a sequel to Manhunter. It's a standalone adaptation

Continuation

1) Lethal Weapon 3 $76,231,354 (x3)

2) Patriot Games $29,719,325 (x2)

3) Batman Returns $84,936,795 (x3)

4) Honey, I Blew Up the Kid $11,083,318

5) Home Alone 2: Lost in New York $72,168,570 (x3)

Total: $274,139,362

Original idea

1) The Hand That Rocks the Cradle $35,642,408 (x4)

2) Medicine Man $8,494,271

3) Basic Instinct $35,194,415 (x5)

4) White Men Can't Jump $24,899,707 (x2)

5) A League of Their Own $11,660,303

6) Mo' Money $12,385,415

7) Death Becomes Her $12,110,355

8) Unforgiven $34,133,302 (x3)

9) Honeymoon in Vegas $16,488,585 (x2)

10) Sneakers $18,143,540 (x2)

11) Under Siege $42,131,658 (x4)

12) Passenger 57 $10,513,925

Total: $261,797,884

Based on something

1) Wayne's World $56,379,372 (x5) (SNL skit)

2) Sleepwalkers $10,017,354 (novel)

3) The Last of the Mohicans $20,630,037 (x2) (novel)

4) *Bram Stoker's Dracula
$30,521,679 (novel)

5) A Few Good Men $40,270,962 (x3)

In 1993 $9,012,668 (play)

6) Aladdin (carried 1993) $40,321,026 (x4) (fairy tale)

Total: $207,153,098

Winner: Continuation

*The film is considered a separate version of the Universal Dracula (hence why it's called Bram Stoker's Dracula)

Based on something

1) Indecent Proposal $50,212,910 (x4) (novel)

2) Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story $10,019,970 (biography)

3) Sliver $12,138,283 (novel)

4) Jurassic Park $113,173,208 (x3) (novel)

5) The Firm $63,695,299 (x3) (novel)

6) Rising Sun $15,195,941 (novel)

7) The Fugitive $104,404,181 (x6) (TV show)

8) The Good Son $12,520,305 (novel)

9) The Beverly Hillbillies $7,178,556 (TV show)

10) The Three Musketeers $10,621,992 (novel)

11) Mrs. Doubtfire $51,550,874 (x3)

In 1994 $19,278,025 (x2) (children's book)

12) The Pelican Brief $27,989,340 (x2) (novel)

Total: $497,978,884

Original idea

1) Loaded Weapon 1 $9,202,722

2) Groundhog Day $23,982,685 (x2)

3) Falling Down $16,349,552 (x2)

4) CB4 $6,122,450

5) Cop and a Half $6,027,285

6) Dave $8,506,834

7) Cliffhanger $32,610,422 (x2)

8) Poetic Justice $11,728,455

9) Striking Distance $8,705,808

10) Malice $9,232,650

11) Demolition Man $26,258,185 (x2)

12) The Nightmare Before Christmas $15,896,761 (x2)

13) Philadelphia $22,647,615 (x2) (carried into 1994)

Total: $197,271,424

Continuation

1) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III $19,825,062 (x2)

2) Addams Family Values $14,117,545

3) Wayne's World 2 $13,516,699

Total: $47,459,306

Winner: Based on something