Hollywood needed “a Minecraft film” to be a success, and he delivered in his opening weekend, considerably narrowing this year’s box office deficit.
No one guessed how great it would be. In its first days in theaters, the film won on Sunday 157 million dollars in theaters in the United States and Canada, according to the studio estimates. Internationally, it is planning an additional $ 144 million for a world start of $ 301 million. And with the current school holidays, “A Minecraft Movie” is just beginning.
Not only is it the largest opening of 2025, “A Minecraft Movie” also broke the record for an adaptation of video games, a distinction previously held by “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” (146 million dollars). During the weekend, analysts projected “Minecraft” could reach $ 80 million. Instead, he almost doubled this figure.
Nothing is guaranteed in the cinema, but an offer based on the best -selling video game of all time makes a good start. It didn’t matter that the games based on blocks did not have exactly a story. Many of its 200 million active monthly players have been in mass anyway.
The film classified PG, directed by Jared Hess (“Napoleon Dynamite”), was a co -production of legendary entertainment and Warner Bros. It cost $ 150 million to be made, not to mention marketing and promotion costs. Jack Black and Jason Momoa lead the overall distribution (Danielle Brooks, Emma Myers and Sebastian Eugene Hansen). Their characters are transported in an imaginative dimension called overworld and must go on a dangerous and extremely silly adventure to go home.
The criticisms were widely mixed on “A Minecraft Movie”, but the public gave it a more promising b +mascore and 4/5 stars in the posttrak exit polls. Men represented around 62% of the hearing, and 64% were under 25. Warner Bros. went big on its release, opening the film in 4,263 locations at the national level and 36,000 international screens.
“The youngest audience loves to go to the movies, believe it or not,” said Paul Dergarabedian, analyst of the senior media for Comscre. “We thought it was an audience that migrated to the small screens, but it is the perfect small screen towards a large screen alliance. It has become an essential theatrical event. Consciousness was out of the charts.”
Video game adaptations have had hinged successes in recent years, notably “The Super Mario Bros. Movie “, the series” Sonic “and” Five Nights at Freddy’s “.
“Video games were once a genre that had very mixed results at the box office, but the code was finally cracked,” said Dergarabedian.
Second place at this week’s box office went to the action photo of Jason Statham “a man who works”, who added $ 7.3 million during his second weekend. Third place was occupied by the second episode of the episodic series “The Chosen: Last Supper”. The second part (made up of episodes three to five) won $ 6.7 million during the weekend. The third and last batch of episodes arrives in theaters on April 11.
“Snow White” slipped in fourth place in his third weekend, gathering $ 6.1 million. It is now more than $ 168 million worldwide.
It was a difficult start for 2025 for Hollywood and cinemas, with disappointments including “Snow White” and “Mickey 17”. But a blow can change the tides considerably, in particular with marketing thrusts in the booming theater for the Pivot summer films season, which starts the first weekend in May.
Before this weekend, the box office operated at a deficit of 13% compared to last year. Now the gap is down to 5%.