“ Minecraft movie ” breaks box-office expectations with starts of $ 157 million

“A Minecraft Movie” accumulated at the box office, collecting a blockbuster $ 157 million in its opening weekend. It is not only the biggest national beginnings of the year, but the best in history for an adaptation of video games.

Before the weekend, Warner Bros. And Legendary’s fantastic PG comedy, with Jack Black and Jason Momoa, should take $ 70 million to $ 80 million with bullish analysts suggesting a final issue closer to $ 90 million.

Thanks to the repressed demand for a family film, a large appeal and a good will to the 2011 video game, however, “Minecraft” crushed expectations in the United States and abroad. At the International Box-Office, Tentpole added $ 144 million for a world start of $ 301 million. The film cost $ 150 million to produce before world marketing costs.

Before this weekend, “Captain America: Brave New World” by Disney and Marvel (88 million dollars) held the reference index for the biggest opening of the year while Universal and Illumination in 2023 “The Super Mario Bros. Movie ”(146 million dollars) owned the biggest start for an adaptation of video games.

Jared Hess (“Napoleon Dynamite”, “Nacho Libre”) produced “A Minecraft Movie”, which follows a group of misdeeds that are drawn through a portal in a cube world and guided by an expert craftsman named Steve (black). The criticisms were mixed (48% on Rotten Tomatoes), although it clearly had no influence on the participation rate.

“The film drew like a coveted film of five quadrants, attracting largely for everyone – young people and older adults, as well as young adolescents and children,” explains David A. Gross, who heads the crisp film consultation firm. “Critics are not good, but these images are made for moviegoers, not criticism. When a version takes fire like this, it generates its own momentum and you can put all the projections aside.”

Hollywood and Warner Bros. In particular, were hungry for a blow. The overall revenues of the box office continues to delay with the sales of tickets currently 5.3% behind 2024 and 35% behind 2019, according to Comscore, although “Minecraft” helped reduce this gap. And Warner Bros. comes from the consecutive theatrical failures of the “The Alto Knights” by Robert de Niro and “Mickey 17” by Bong Joon Ho and Robert Pattinson “and Robert Pattinson. Then, the studio has “Sinners”, a vampire thriller classified of $ 90 million from the collaborator “Black Panther” and “Creed” Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan.

“The domestic box office is asleep in 2025, and it’s a late awakening,” explains Gross. “This is good news for industry, although this type of volatility is not healthy in the long term. What the box office needs is consistency. ”

“A Minecraft Movie” is based on one of the best -selling video games in history, but this kind of association does not always guarantee success in Hollywood. (Just ask the donors of the “Borderlands” of last year.) However, the films based on the game have been successful than Misses recently with “The Super Mario Bros. Movie “,” Five Nights at Freddy’s “,” Sonic the Hedgehog “and” Uncharted “by Tom Holland at the Box Office.

The legendary has struck gold to adapt the main properties of the screen; “A Minecraft Movies” extends the sequence of the production company of the Godzilla and King Kong franchise as well as “Dune” and “Dune Part II”. And Warner Bros. Has no stone not returned in terms of obtaining the “Minecraft” on the moviegoers radar. The promotional campaign resulted in the largest third party partnership in business history (and this is important since it is the studio behind “Barbie”). This worked with 45 brands, including McDonalds, Doritos, Oreo and Poppi Soda, to bring “a minecraft film” to the masses.

While “a Minecraft film” dominated at the box office, other films in theaters have been paid for remains. In a distant and distant second place, Jason Statham’s action thriller “A Working Man” collected $ 7.2 million in 3,262 theaters. After two weeks of release, the film Amazon MGM won $ 27.7 million.

“The Chosen: Last Supper – Part 2” by Fathom Entertainment, a confessional television series on Jesus and his disciples, stayed in third place with $ 6.7 of 2,235 cinemas during the weekend. Fathom Events deploys the fifth season of the series in cinemas with two -week episodes; “Part 1” has increased $ 17.3 million to date.

The live action of Disney “Snow White”, with Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot, went in fourth place with $ 6 million on 3,750 places during his third outing. So far, the goard of $ 250 million has generated $ 77 million lamentable at national level and $ 168 million worldwide. This promises to be one of the greatest failures in the box office of the year (although, of course, 2025 is young).

To complete the first five, “The Woman in the Yard” by Blumhouse with $ 4.5 million of $ 2,845 cinemas in its second setting. The film, with Danielle Deadwyler as a matriarch of a family who sees a strange woman (in the courtyard, of course), dollars reported. Fortunately for her donors, “the woman in the courtyard” only cost $ 12 million to produce.

Also new in theaters this weekend, Neon’s horror comedy “Hell of a Summer” opened at $ 1.75 million on 1,250 screens. This is not a bad start given that the low -budget film was funded for $ 3 million. The star of “Stranger Things”, Finn Wolfhard, co-produced the film with Billy Bryk. They also appear in the film, which follows sleep camp advisers who are tracked down by a masked killer. According to neon, initial ticket buyers were mainly women under the age of 25.

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