Horror movie? The 8 ball gives ominous warnings that come true, and it has to be defeated by flushing it down the toilet
Like Final Destination? The eight ball predicts death to the person asking questions, then causes the deaths by a series of overly complicated scenarios
People get miniaturized like Fantastic Voyage and get trapped inside, and have to use their sub to manipulate the messages before their air runs out
Sci Fi: The 8 ball is the advanced guard of an alien invasion. It can transform into different shaped weapons
Sunk is actually pretty apt – it tanked at the box office.
ETA: I misread the OP and thought was was about actual movies. Now that I realize this is about nominations for games to turn into movies, I would totally go see Minesweeper:
I’m actually kind of amazed there hasn’t been a Monopoly movie yet; what, you can’t build a story around someone buying up railroad properties and local utilities, and paying folks off because that’s what it means to win an election, while someone else goes directly to jail? Complete with all the beach scenes you want — like someone coming in second at a beauty contest, right by the oceanfront boardwalk — plus maybe a scene where four separate houses are getting knocked down, because it’s time to build a big fancy hotel?
There’s certainly enough material in its inventor’s life for a biopic:
Suckling is said to have sent numerous packs of marked playing cards to aristocratic houses in England and then travelled around playing cribbage with the gentry. He managed to win around £20,000.
In 1634, scandal was caused in his circle by a beating he received at the hands of Sir John Digby, a rival suitor for the daughter of Sir John Willoughby.
In 1639, Suckling assisted King Charles I in his first Scottish war, raising a troop of a hundred horse at a cost of £12,000, and accompanying Charles on the Scottish expedition of 1639.
Human combat sports (boxing, wrestling, etc.) have been outlawed, but humans can still get their boxing fix from human-like robots. The robots have been programmed to fight each other, and not humans.
Until a glitch in the programming occurs, that is …
