Hollywood needed “A Minecraft movie” be a success, and delivered in its first weekend, significantly reducing the box office deficit.
No one guessed how big it would be. In its early days in theaters, the film won the amazing advantage of $ 157 million in the sale of tickets in the cinemas in the United States and Canada, according to Studio Estimes Sunday. Internationally, it is looking for additional $ 144 million for a world debut of $ 301 million. And with the ongoing school spring holidays, “A Minecraft movie” It is just beginning.
Not only is the largest opening of 2025, “to Minecraft Movie” also broke the record of a video game adaptation, a distinction previously owned by “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” ($ 146 million). Upon entering the weekend, analysts project “Minecraft” could reach $ 80 million. Instead, that figure almost doubled.
Nothing is guaranteed in the films business, but an offer based on the best -selling video game of all time makes it a good start. It barely mattered that the block based on the block does not have exactly a narrative. Anyway, many of its 200 million active monthly players came out in mass.
The PG classification film, directed by Jared HESS (“Napoleon Dynamite”), was a co -production of Legendary Entertainment and Warner Bros. cost $ 150 million reported, not including marketing and promotion expenses. Jack Black and Jason Momoa lead the cast of the team (Danielle Brooks, Emma Myers and Sebastian Eugene Hansen). His characters are transported to an imaginative dimension called Overworld and need to go to a dangerous and immensely silly adventure to get home.
Critics mixed largely in “Minecraft Movie”, but the public gave him a more promising B+ Cinemascore and 4/5 stars in Postrak output surveys. Men constituted about 62% of the audience, and 64% were less than 25 years old. Warner Bros. was large in its launch, opening the film at 4,263 locations nationwide and 36,000 screens internationally.
“The youngest audience loves to go to the movies, you create it or not,” said Paul Dergarabedian, a senior media analyst. “We thought this was an audience that would migrate to small screens, but this is the perfect screen perfect for the large screen alliance. It became an unmissable theatrical event. Consciousness was out of the lists.”
The adaptations of video games have had some fundamental successes in recent years, including “Super Mario Bros.” The “Sonic” series and “Five nights in Freddy’s.”
“The video games were once a genre that had very mixed results in the box office, but the code has finally broken,” said Dergarabedian.
The second place at this week’s box office went to the action photo of Jason Statham “A working man” He added $ 7.3 million in his second weekend. The third place was occupied by the second installment of the episodic series “The elected: last supper”. The second part (composed of episodes of three to five) won $ 6.7 million over the weekend. The third and last lot of episodes reaches cinemas on April 11.
“Snow White” slid to fourth place in its third weekend, bringing $ 6.1 million. Now more than $ 168 million is manufactured worldwide.
It has been a difficult start to 2025 for Hollywood and movie cinemas, with disappointments that include “Snow White” and “Mickey 17.” But a success can significantly change the tides, especially with the marketing thrusts in the theater in full apogee for the fundamental summer movie season, which begins the first weekend of May.
Before this weekend, the box office was working with a 13% deficit compared to last year. Now the gap has dropped to 5%.
