| 100% | EPIC | 4 | 2013 animated movie based on the book "The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs" |
| 64% | EPIC | 4 | 2013 3D computer-animated film based on William Joyce's "The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs" |
| 36% | BLADERUNNER | 11 | Movie based on the book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" |
| 35% | MEANGIRLS | 9 | 2004 Lindsay Lohan movie based partly on the nonfiction book "Queen Bees and Wannabes": 2 wds. |
| 35% | BABE | 4 | Movie based on the children's book "The Sheep-Pig" |
| 34% | COUNTRY | 7 | No __ For Old Men, movie based on McCarthy book |
| 34% | PRISCILLA | 9 | 2023 movie based on the memoir Elvis and Me |
| 33% | CUJO | 4 | 1983 horror movie based on a Stephen King book and featuring a rabid dog that was set largely in one location, the Trenton family home |
| 33% | ADAPTATION | 10 | 2002 Meryl Streep movie based on the nonfiction book "The Orchid Thief" |
| 33% | ARGO | 4 | 2012 movie based on the Tony Mendez book "The Master of Disguise" |
| 33% | OLLIE | 5 | "Stan & ___," 2018 comedy movie based on the lives of Laurel and Hardy |
| 33% | ROALDDAHL | 9 | Writer of the children's books that the movies directed by 14-, 20-, and 36-Across were based on: 2 wds. |
| 33% | MULAN | 5 | 1998 Disney animated movie based on a Chinese folk story depicted in the eponymous 6th-century ballad |
| 33% | GREENZONE | 9 | 2010 Matt Damon movie based on the nonfiction book "Imperial Life in the Emerald City": 2 wds. |
| 33% | JERSEYBOYS | 10 | 2006 Tony Award Best Musical winner based on the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons |
| 33% | JOE | 3 | "G.I. ___: The Movie," 1987 animated film based on the iconic action figure |
| 33% | BIGMIRACLE | 10 | 2012 Drew Barrymore movie based on the nonfiction book "Freeing the Whales": 2 wds. |
| 32% | LEGO | 4 | "The ___ Movie," animated film franchise based on the iconic construction toys |
| 32% | JOSIE | 5 | "___ and the Pussycats" (2001 movie based on a cartoon) |
| 31% | NEWAMSTERDAM | 12 | NBC's medical drama TV series based on the book "Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital": 2 wds. |
| 31% | IGOR | 4 | 2008 animated movie loosely based on the Frankenstein story |
| 31% | FROZEN | 6 | 2013 animated feature based on Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen" |
| 31% | MODOK | 5 | 2021 animated series based on a Marvel Comics character and featuring the voices of Aimee Garcia and Ben Schwartz |
| 31% | NOMADLAND | 9 | Best Picture winner based on a book with the subtitle Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century |
| 31% | BATMANFOREVER | 13 | Comic book adaptation of the 1995 movie based on a DC Comics character: 2 wds. |
| 31% | THEWIZARDOFOZ | 13 | 1939 fantasy movie that's based on the same books as 18-Across: 4 wds. |
| 31% | OCTOBERSKY | 10 | Movie based on the memoir "Rocket Boys" (and an anagram of "Rocket Boys") |
| 30% | STEIG | 5 | William ___, author whose eponymous book the movie "Shrek" is based on |
| 30% | WIND | 4 | "The ___ Rises," 2013 animated movie on a Japanese aviation engineer who created the A6M WWII fighter plane |
| 30% | MEN | 3 | "___ in Black," movie series starring Will Smith based on the comic book series by Lowell Cunningham |