an interactive medium, and movies, being a passive medium, mean the two are quite different." Until 2019, no video game film - live-action or animated - had received a Rotten Tomatoes "fresh" rating, with a score over 60%. Three films since, Detective Pikachu, The Angry Birds Movie 2, and Sonic the Hedgehog have been able to break into the "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Both Detective Pikachu and Sonic the Hedgehog have posted better-than-expected domestic takes, with Sonic having the highest domestic opening through 2020. Sonic success led to its sequel Sonic the Hedgehog 2 releasing in April 2022 and beating the first film's domestic opening, and also receiving a slightly higher score on Rotten Tomatoes. Following these films, new adaptions of games into films and television series became successful and showed that adaptions that held to a game's story but did not try to maintain the video game aspects were more popular with audiences. Shows such as Arcane, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, and The Last of Us were all critically-praised series based on video games from 2021 through 2023. Though video game films are critically panned, they tend to do well from the international take at box offices. Warcraft, based on the World of Warcraft game, holds the highest take of any video game adaptation with , while the six Resident Evil films hold the highest take for a series of on an average production budget between . Other financially successful video game films include: Mortal Kombat, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Uncharted, Assassin's Creed, Silent Hill, and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Among the most well-known video game filmmakers is Uwe Boll, a German writer, director, and producer whose works include House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, BloodRayne, In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, Postal, and Far Cry, all of which were almost universally panned by critics. In 2016, he retired from filmmaking, citing market failures and funding difficulties. Similarly, Paul W. S. Anderson has gained a reputation for his panned video game adaptations, particularly the first Mortal Kombat (despite positive reviews), the Resident Evil series and most recently Monster Hunter. Adaptations from other sources While documentary films have often been made from journalism and reportage, so too have some dramatic films, including: All the President's Men (1976, adapted from the 1974 book); Miracle, (2004, from an account published shortly after the 1980