List of Saturday Night Live feature films

The American sketch comedy TV series Saturday Night Live, which debuted on NBC in 1975, has been the genesis of 12 feature-length films. These films are based on some of the more popular sketches and characters from the show and have achieved varying levels of success. The first foray into film came with the successful Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi vehicle, The Blues Brothers (1980), which earned over $115 million on a $27 million budget.^[1]

In 1990, Lorne Michaels oversaw the writing of a sketch anthology feature film titled The Saturday Night Live Movie with many of the show's then-current writing staff, including Al Franken, Tom Davis, Greg Daniels, Jim Downey, Conan O'Brien, Robert Smigel, and George Meyer, contributing. The screenplay only got as far as a Revised First Draft dated July 26, 1990 before being abandoned.^[2]

The success of Wayne's World (1992) encouraged Michaels to produce more film spin-offs, based on several popular sketch characters.^{[citation needed]} Michaels revived 1970s characters for Coneheads (1993), followed by It's Pat (1994); Stuart Saves His Family (1995); A Night at the Roxbury (1998); Superstar (1999), and The Ladies Man (2000). Most of these films were box office and critical failures, notably It's Pat, which did so badly at the box office that the studio that made the film, Touchstone Pictures, pulled it only one week after releasing it.^[3]

Films

Film	Details
	Saturday Night Live sketches based on	Director(s)	Writer(s)	Distributor(s)
The Blues Brothers	The Blues Brothers by Dan Aykroyd & John Belushi	John Landis	Dan Aykroyd & John Landis	Universal Pictures
Wayne's World	Wayne's World by Mike Myers	Penelope Spheeris	Mike Myers, Bonnie Turner & Terry Turner	Paramount Pictures
Coneheads	Coneheads by Dan Aykroyd	Steve Barron	Tom Davis, Dan Aykroyd, Bonnie Turner & Terry Turner
Wayne's World 2	Wayne's World by Mike Myers	Stephen Surjik	Mike Myers, Bonnie Turner & Terry Turner
It's Pat	Pat by Julia Sweeney	Adam Bernstein	Julia Sweeney, Jim Emerson & Stephen Hibbert	Buena Vista Pictures
Stuart Saves His Family	Stuart Smalley by Al Franken	Harold Ramis	Al Franken	Paramount Pictures
Blues Brothers 2000	The Blues Brothers by Dan Aykroyd & John Belushi	John Landis	Dan Aykroyd & John Landis	Universal Pictures
A Night at the Roxbury	The Roxbury Guys by Chris Kattan & Will Ferrell	John Fortenberry	Will Ferrell, Chris Kattan & Steve Koren	Paramount Pictures
Superstar	Mary Katherine Gallagher by Molly Shannon	Bruce McCulloch	Steve Koren
The Ladies Man	Leon Phelps, The Ladies Man by Tim Meadows	Reginald Hudlin	Tim Meadows, Dennis McNicholas & Andrew Steele
MacGruber	MacGruber by Will Forte, John Solomon & Jorma Taccone	Jorma Taccone	Will Forte, John Solomon & Jorma Taccone	Universal Pictures
Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain	Please Don't Destroy by Martin Herlihy, John Higgins, & Ben Marshall	Paul Briganti	Martin Herlihy, John Higgins, & Ben Marshall

Reception

Box office performance

Film	Release date (United States)	Budget (estimated)	Box office revenue
			United States	Elsewhere	Worldwide
The Blues Brothers^[1]	June 20, 1980	$27 million	$57,229,890	$58,000,000	$115,229,890
Wayne's World	February 14, 1992	$20 million	$121,697,323	$61,400,000	$183,097,323
Coneheads	July 23, 1993	$33 million	$21,274,717	—	$21,274,717
Wayne's World 2	December 10, 1993	$40 million	$48,197,805	—	$48,197,805
It's Pat	August 26, 1994	$8 million^[4]	$60,822	—	$60,822
Stuart Saves His Family	April 14, 1995	$6.3 million	$912,082	—	$912,082
Blues Brothers 2000	February 6, 1998	$28 million	$14,051,384	—	$14,051,384
A Night at the Roxbury	October 2, 1998	$17 million	$30,331,165	—	$30,331,165
Superstar	October 8, 1999	$14 million	$30,636,478	—	$30,636,478
The Ladies Man	October 13, 2000	$24 million	$13,616,610	$126,602	$13,743,212
MacGruber	May 21, 2010	$10 million	$8,525,600	$797,295	$9,259,314
Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain	November 17, 2023	—	—	$14,582	$14,582

Critical response

Year	Film	Rotten Tomatoes	Metacritic	CinemaScore^[5]
1980	The Blues Brothers	73% (90 reviews)^[6]	60% (12 reviews)^[7]	—
1992	Wayne's World	78% (88 reviews)^[8]	57% (14 reviews)^[9]	A−
1993	Coneheads	35% (31 reviews)^[10]	49% (20 reviews)^[11]	B+
1993	Wayne's World 2	61% (44 reviews)^[12]	60% (21 reviews)^[13]	A-
1994	It's Pat	0% (11 reviews)^[14]	—	—
1995	Stuart Saves His Family	30% (27 reviews)^[15]	54% (16 reviews)^[16]	—
1998	A Night at the Roxbury	11% (55 reviews)^[17]	26% (14 reviews)^[18]	C−
1998	Blues Brothers 2000	46% (46 reviews)^[19]	—	B−
1999	Superstar	32% (74 reviews)^[20]	42% (28 reviews) ^[21]	C+
2000	The Ladies Man	11% (73 reviews)^[22]	22% (23 reviews) ^[23]	C−
2010	MacGruber	48% (151 reviews)^[24]	43% (24 reviews)^[25]	C−
2023	Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain	44% (32 reviews)^[26]	49% (13 reviews)^[27]	—

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