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The successful adaptation of the 2011 video game “Minecraft” broke the box office estimates, collecting $ 157 million in the country and marking the biggest opening weekend of the year.
Industry analysts initially projected that Warner Bros Pictures’ Minecraft film reported $ 60 million before adjusting this estimate to around $ 100 million. Warner Brothers Discovery is CNN’s parent company.
“This is the first major over-performance,” Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Comscore, told CNN. “A Minecraft Movie” exceeded the opening weekend of “Captain America: Brave New World” from Disney, which was the first opening match of 2025 with an opening weekend of $ 88.5 million.
“President and interest accelerated in a remarkable manner during the opening evening race,” CNN, director of cinematographic analysis, Shawn Robbins, director of film analysis. Robbins noted that many students and adolescents were on spring holidays when the film was opened, which also helped certain markets.
The conservative estimates of the box office for “a minecraft film” were probably due to mixed reactions to the trailers. But this adaptation of the video game calls on a large audience, not the criticism, according to the analyst of the box office David A. Gross of crosses.
“When a press release fighs like this, it generates its own dynamics and you can put all the projections aside,” said Gross.
Video game movies are an increasingly popular kind, “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” by Universal Pictures, which opened with $ 146 million in April 2023, in October 2023 “Five Nights at Freddy’s” (80 million dollars) and Paramount Pictures “” Sonic the Hedgehog 2 “(72 million dollars) in April. Comscre.
“There is a narrative and (intellectual property) treasure in this arena, making it an ideal place where industry can meet young moviegoers and a general audience that has become more selective,” said Robbins.
According to Dergarabedian, who noted that the films evaluated by PG exceeded the PG-13 films by Dergarabedian, which noted that the films evaluated by PG had exceeded the PG-13 films.
The opening weekend for “A Minecraft Movie” offers an essential boost to the global box office. Industry income is decreasing 5% in 2025 But had fallen 13% before the release of “A Minecraft Movie”, according to Comscore.
Robbins described the first quarter of 2025 as a “historically slow cinema season”. While March 2024 had major films, including “Dune: Part Two” and “Kung Fu Panda 4”, the first trimester of 2025 was absent from very profitable superproductions.
There is the optimism of the industry for a solid second quarter With “Thunderbolts” by Disney, a Marvel film, which opens on May 2, followed by “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” by Paramount (May 23), and Warner Bros. ‘”F1″ (June 27).
“We will finally see the light at the end of the tunnel after a fairly dismal walk,” said Dergarabedian.