Minecraft opens with record-breaking $157 million domestic box office

“A Minecraft Movie” injected immoderate much-needed beingness into the slumbering container bureau with a record-breaking $157-million home opening and $144 cardinal overseas.

The movie, starring Jason Momoa, Jack Black and Jennifer Coolidge, shattered expectations, doubling immoderate pre-weekend estimates. It took the apical slot for a video crippled adaptation, eclipsing “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” motorboat successful 2023, which grossed $146.4 million.

Based connected the 2011 video game, the movie has delivered a invited deed for Warner Bros., giving the beleaguered workplace the largest home opening of the year. It reportedly outgo $150 cardinal to make, excluding selling expenses.

It is the archetypal movie of the twelvemonth to gross implicit $100 cardinal domestically.

“We’re perfectly overjoyed “A Minecraft Movie” has been truthful warmly received by audiences astir the world,” said Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group co-CEOs Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy successful a statement. He added that the movie’s “decade agelong travel to the surface was overseen with large attraction by WBP’s Jesse Ehrman and his team, and we are thrilled their efforts person resulted successful specified a tremendous response.”

Last month, home container bureau generated conscionable $410 million, according to Comscore.

Given its beardown showing, “A Minecraft Movie,” could “knock immoderate 7 to 8 percent points disconnected the year-to-date shortage that heading into the play was moving 13% down 2024 and volition upwind up astatine astir a 5% year-to-date shortage done today,” said Paul Dergarabedian, elder media expert astatine Comscore.

The movie reportedly outgo $150 cardinal to produce.

The Amazon-MGM enactment thriller “A Working Man,” starring Jason Statham, took successful $7.2 cardinal implicit the weekend, portion Fathom Entertainment’s spiritual themed “The Chosen: The Last Supper,” (Season 5) Part 2, premiered this weekend, coming successful 3rd with a $7 cardinal opening.

Disney’s unrecorded enactment “Snow White” continues to slide, with $6 cardinal successful receipts, its 3rd play successful theaters.