Summary
- A Minecraft Movie made $301 million in its opening weekend, putting it on track to dethrone The Super Mario Bros. Movie as the highest-grossing video game adaptation.
- In just three days, it has beaten out Five Nights at Freddy’s, the new Mortal Kombat, and several Tomb Raider and Resident Evil films.
- Whether it can keep up momentum remains to be seen, but it has already doubled its $150 million budget.
While cinema employees fend off feral kids screaming chicken jockey while hurling drinks at each other, left to clean up the aftermath of screenings where popcorn has been spilled everywhere by fanatic viewers, A Minecraft Movie is dominating the box office.
In just three days, it has made $157 million domestically and $144 million overseas for a combined $301 million opening (via The Hollywood Reporter). That means it has already doubled its $150 million budget and beaten The Super Mario Bros. Movie’s debut of $146.4 million, putting Minecraft on track (or rather, on Redstone-powered rails) to become the highest-grossing video game movie of all time.
Right now, the competition looks like this:
- The Super Mario Bros. Movie – $1.3 billion
- Sonic the Hedgehog 3 – $491,000
- Pokémon Detective Pikachu – $450,000
- Warcraft – $439,000
- Rampage – $428,000
- Uncharted – $407,000
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2 – $405,000
- The Angry Birds Movie – $352,000
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time – $336,000
- Sonic the Hedgehog – $320,000
A Minecraft Movie has already outperformed Five Nights at Freddy’s, several Tomb Raider and Resident Evil movies, and the newest Mortal Kombat.
A Minecraft Movie Has The Biggest Domestic Opening Since Deadpool & Wolverine
The box office has suffered a slump these last few months, as Disney’s live-action Snow White failed to draw in audiences with a domestic run of just $77 million so far. Thankfully (again, unless you work at the cinema), A Minecraft Movie has revitalised the film scene, boasting the biggest domestic opening since Deadpool & Wolverine.
“We’re absolutely overjoyed A Minecraft Movie has been so warmly received by audiences around the world,” Warner Bros. movie studio chiefs Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy said, thanking everyone involved in the film’s production and marketing. “A Minecraft Movie’s decade-long journey to the screen was overseen with great care by WBP’S Jesse Ehrman and his team, and we are thrilled their efforts have resulted in such a tremendous response.”
Despite opening to middling reviews, much as Mario did two years ago, A Minecraft Movie has proven a hit with audiences, but whether it can maintain its momentum long enough to take the top spot remains to be seen. At any rate, its opening is a historic, record-breaking win for Warner Bros.
Minecraft
- Released
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November 18, 2011
- ESRB
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E10+ For Everyone 10+ Due To Fantasy Violence