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“A Minecraft Movie”, based on successful video games, opened its doors in theaters this weekend and has become a surprise Smash, eclipstating at the tubes of tubes as “Barbie”-but a disruptive behavior by theater lovers has alarmed certain cinemas, which encourages them to extinguish warnings against disturbance.
“A film Minecraft” has become a Smash Surprise at the box office. (Photo of Benjamin Cremel / AFP) (photo by … More
Key facts
“A Minecraft Movie” easily caught the best national opening weekend of the year with $ 163 million, leading theaters nationally to their most profitable weekend in five months after a lamentable start of the year.
The total of the film’s opening weekend is the best for a film since “Deadpool & Wolverine” last summer, and he exceeded the opening brushes of the box office “Barbie” and “The Super Mario Bros. Movie”, bordering the latter to win the best opening weekend for an adaptation of video films.
“A Minecraft Movie” amazed by the outperformance of the projections of the opening weekend: two days before the opening, Deadline provided that it would be gross $ 65 million, while Variety projects, it would win $ 70 million (“Who Diable saw this?”, Wrote Deadline after reporting the immense opening of the film of $ 163 million).
Deadline reported that Warner Bros. Pictures, the production and distribution company of the film, helped the film to become a blockbuster by energizing social media and by collaborating with influencers, but the virality of the film also alarmed theaters, because many viral videos on Tiktok represented a disruptive behavior during the film.
The film also has a star cast, led by Jack Black and Jason Momoa, with co-stars including Danielle Brooks, Jennifer Coolidge and Emma Myers.
How did the public “A Minecraft” disrupted the film?
Many videos on Tiktok show that the public gets up and bursts in cries during a scene, in which the characters of Black and Momoa are in a boxing ring. During the scene, a zombie character sets up a chicken, encouraging the character of Black to say: “Chicken jockey”. The disruptive public generally shouts the line of the “jockey chicken” in synchronization with the character of Black, and videos representing the noisy reactions of the public have collected millions of likes on Tiktok. In a video liked 2 million times, the public shouted the black line while bursting into applause. In another video liked 3 million times, some public members jumped from their chairs during the stage. A video, with 2 million likes, represents theater fans throwing buckets full of popcorn during the scene, and later in the video, the police are seen escorted several participants outside the theater. Some videos have represented other bizarre behaviors during the film. In a tiktok with nearly 500,000 likes, a theater lover got up in front of the screen before the start of the film, announcing theater lovers: “This film will change our life”, to applaud the public.
How did the theaters respond to the disturbances “a Minecraft film”?
Some theaters warned the participants not to disturb the projections “A Minecraft Movie”. A cinema in the canton of Washington, New Jersey, prohibited minors who are not accompanied by watching the film without supervision for adults, said theater in an article on Facebook. The theater has cited a group of unleanished boys adopting “completely unacceptable behavior, including vandalism”. A Cineworld theater in Oxfordshire, in the United Kingdom, has published a sign inside the public to warn the public, they will be deleted without reimbursement if they disturb the projections “Minecraft”. The Cineworld channel told the BBC in a statement it had created “Special Chicken Jockey 4DX projections” for fans who want to be noisy during the film.
Large number
$ 313 million. This is how “a minecraft film” made in theaters in the world in its first three days, according to the Mojo box office.
Main criticisms
The film “Minecraft” has a 48% criticism score on Rotten Tomatoes, indicating mainly negative criticism, although the audience score is much higher at 88%. The criticism of Hollywood Reporter Lovia Gyarkye said that the film “does not manage to arouse the imagination, betraying a basic principle of the game on which it is based”. The critic of San Francisco Chronicle, Zaki Hasan, criticized him as the last example of Hollywood “pushing a beloved property in the factory mold”, based on name recognition instead of quality. In a more positive journal, the criticism of Los Angeles Times, Amy Nicholson, called it “Big Dumb Fun” and hopes that “hangs the children usually going to the cinema”. Films based on video games have historically had trouble pleased criticism, which say that the big volume of history and content in a game is difficult to translate in a two -hour film.
Key
“Minecraft” has sold more than 300 million copies since its launch in 2011, according to the developer Mojang Studios, and he is considered the best -selling video game of all time, although certain publications, like Gamespot, consider Tetris as the best -selling game, while others have disputed this because Tetris is a series instead of a unique game. Minecraft is a unique or multi-playing open world game in which users can find building materials and tools to build buildings and other structures. The game can be played in creative mode, in which players can build freely, or in survival mode, in which players must find food and resources to survive while pushing the monsters. Microsoft bought Mojang studios, including Minecraft and its intellectual property, in 2014, in an agreement that made its creator, the Swedish video game developer Markus Persson, a billionaire. Persson is worth $ 1.3 billion, according to forbes estimates.
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