'A Minecraft Movie' starring Jason Momoa wins big at the box office

The film 'A Minecraft Movie', directed by Jared Hess, adapted from the video game 'Minecraft' produced by Mojang Studios, breathes new life into the international film market thanks to its unique and colorful character designs.

A Minecraft Movie Breathes Fresh Air Into A Sluggish Movie Market

A Minecraft Movie is an adaptation of the famous pixel-style "brick-breaking" video game. The film stars two box office hits, Jason Momoa and Jack Black, along with other actors such as Sebastian Hansen, Danielle Brooks...

Released in North American theaters this past weekend from April 4 (local time) at 4,263 theaters with wide screenings, A Minecraft Movie - a new entry in the video game adaptation genre, breathed new life into the gloomy film market with good revenue and audience satisfaction. Box office observers called the revenue this time the film achieved beyond expectations.

A Minecraft Movie is a colorful mix of comedy, adventure, fantasy, and even has box office star Jason Momoa.

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Specifically, according to data from Box Office Mojo, the film earned $39 million on Sunday, April 6, with a total weekend revenue of $157 million in North America, ranking first at the box office. Disney's latest Snow White , a live-action adaptation of the classic 2D animated film, sluggishly earned $1.88 million on April 6, ranking third in the list of films that day. The film also dropped to fourth place in the list of weekly films in North America with a modest revenue of $6.1 million.

A Minecraft Movie 's global gross reached over $300 million after just three weekends, while the film's production budget was $150 million. A family adventure film like A Minecraft Movie is considered to have all the elements to be a hit, even surpassing other films in the genre in terms of revenue. For example, the film surpassed the $146.4 million revenue of The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) in the first three days of its release, which was a hit film of Universal with a global gross of over $1.36 billion.

In addition, A Minecraft Movie also has the best opening weekend revenue among movies adapted from video games; the highest-grossing movie in the North American market in 2025 to date (compared to Marvel's billion-dollar blockbuster Deadpool & Wolverine when shown in July 2024 with 211 million USD after 3 days of showing).

The white sheep, a character in the movie A Minecraft Movie . Although the work was a big hit at the box office, it was "bombed" in terms of professional evaluation.

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The positive revenue from A Minecraft Movie right after its release is considered an advantage for the two studios Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures (film production companies, in which Legendary Pictures contributed 25% of the production budget of 150 million USD, not including advertising fees in that percentage). Because as of last Saturday, the second day in theaters, the film earned 60 million USD, the largest amount of money in 1 day that Warner Bros. has earned for a film released by this studio.

However, the movie A Minecraft Movie is causing The film received mixed reviews from critics and audiences on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Critics gave it a 48% "rotten tomato" rating, while audiences loved it, with an 87% rating from over 5,000 reviews. One newspaper even called it "a chaotic mess."

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