A Minecraft Mine Consin Box Office with $ 157 million weekend

The box office has just been jumped to pieces by blocks. A Minecraft movie Bulldozate expectations with an internal debut of $ 157 million, becoming the largest opening of the year and the beginning with the greatest collection ever for an adaptation of video games.

For the context, this is almost double of what analysts had planned on the weekend. Before the release, Warner Bros. and Legendary were predicting a respectable $ 70 to $ 80 million. Some optimistic trackers in the sector have had $ 90 million.

Instead, the film drew to a perfect storm: the family audience that continues for something new, fans of the game and a marketing blitz unlike anything WB did before, and it was even bigger than Barbie.

The fantasy comedy classified by PG was directed by Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre), and interprets Jack Black Like Steve, a master craftsman e Jason Momoa As one of the misfit adventurers who fall into the block world. The critics were not kind (48% on rotting tomatoes), but clearly the public did not matter.

“The film is drawing as a spoken five -neighborhood film, attractively attractive for everyone: younger and older adults, as well as teenagers and children,” he says David A. Gross of franchisere.

“The reviews are not good, but these images are made for spectators, not for critics. When a version takes fire like this, it generates its momentum and you can put aside all the projections.”

Add another 144 million dollars from international territories e MinecraftThe global launch hit $ 301 million. With a production budget of $ 150 million (not counting marketing), this is a huge victory, in particular for Warner Bros., who had a desperate need for a success after recent offenders with The Knights of high AND Mickey Mouse 17.

Gross continues: “The home box office was asleep in 2025, and this is a late alarm. It is good news for the industry, although this type of volatility is not to greet in the long term. What the box office needs is consistent.”

The success of Minecraft solidifies the legendary strip with high profile properties, joining the ranks of his Dune Film and Monsterverse in progress.

“When we make films, we all hope that they will connect with culture,” says legendary president Mary Parent. “But when they do it, they take on their own life. It is like the lighting of the dynamite.”

That dynamite was illuminated by an unprecedented marketing thrust. Warner Bros. collaborated with 45 brands including McDonalds, Doritos, Oreo, Poppi Soda to ensure that the film was inevitable.

“A perfectly made marketing and distribution plan of Warner Bros. put the film with the public target of children and families in the foreground,” says Paul Dergarabedian of Comscore.

“In the wake of” Super Mario “and” Sonic “, the global performance of this weekend of” A Minecraft film “shows that the code has been officially broken on how to transform a video game for a small screen into a big screen event.”

While Minecraft Gold of the extracted box office, everything else in the cinemas seemed like a reserve change. Jason Statham’S A man who works He rubbed in second place with $ 7.2 million. The Prelezate: Last Supper – Part 2 He took the third with $ 6.7 million.

Disney is disturbed Snow White The remake continues to fight, going down to fourth place with $ 6 million. And completing the first five, The woman in the courtyard He earned $ 4.5 million, a decent demonstration considering his low $ 12 million budget.

Elsewhere, Neon’s Hell a summerco-director from Stranger things star Finn Wolfhard AND Billy BrykHe gained a modest $ 1.75 million on just over $ 1,200, which is not bad for a horror comedy of $ 3 million addressed to the Under 25 crowd.

But, in the end, this weekend belonged to Minecraft adventure movie.