The adaptation of the large screen of Mega-Frenchise Minecraft brought $ 58 million on Friday, Putting it on the track for a opening weekend of $ 135 million Nationally, or potentially even more.
That would give “a Minecraft movie” the largest opening of the year, surpassing “Captain America: Brave New World” (which won $ 88.8 million during its first weekend in February) and providing a very necessary impulse to the theater box office. Comscore recently estimated that the 2025 domestic box office was 7% less year after yearAnd that is also a significant decrease in pre-pandemic era.
Coming to the rescue: video games, particularly friendly video games for children, who can soon eclipse superhero comics such as the most reliable template for Hollywood box office successes. “The Super Mario Brothers Movie” was one of the greatest successes of 2023 (only behind “Barbie”) and “Sonic The Hedgehog 3” It was a great success During recent winter vacations.
The Minecraft game, first developed by Marcus “Notch” Person and acquired by Microsoft in 2014, has a mass audience, with 204 million monthly active users In December. But he also raised particular challenges, since he offers those players a virtual sand box, instead of a specific story or set of characters to adapt.
Directed by Jared HESS (better known by “Napoleon Dynamite”), with Six accredited scriptwriters“A Minecraft film” faces these challenges transporting human characters (played by Jason Momoa, Jack Black and others) to a animated fantasy world in Minecraft’s style recognizable. The film has received Mixed reviews – But then, so did the “Super Mario Brothers movie”, and that was no obstacle to the massive box office success.
The great weekend of “A Minecraft Movie” is also good news for Warner Bros., whose film division has endured A chain of failures including “The Alto Knights” and “Joker: Folie A Deux”. Therefore, it is probably safe to assume that we will see a sequel.
