Goldstein is optimistic that “Minecraft” will help turn the box office tides. Fortunes have already begun to shift. Prior to this weekend, box office revenues were nearly 11% behind last year and 40% behind 2019, according to Comscore. Now the gap has shrunk to 5.3% behind 2024 and 35% behind 2019.

The kid-friendly video game adaptation is also a powerhouse overseas for an early global total north of $100 million through Friday. And it's doing huge business in China for Legendary East.

SUNDAY UPDATE: Warner Bros / Legendary ’s A Minecraft Movie has come in with an astounding $301M global opening. Of that, $144.1M is from the international box office. As we’ve noted throughout the weekend (see below), the film just continued to build, and has broken records in some offshore markets. Talk about a blocks-buster.

Weekend ticket sales totaled $163 million, Warner Bros. said, more than double the expected amount, ending a Hollywood dry spell.

IGN had the chance to speak with the team behind A Minecraft Movie, and they shared that they built a private server that the cast and crew had access to in order to make this adaptation feel as faithful as possible.

Audience member @CallMeCarsonYT shared a video from their time at the theater with the caption, “The Ideal Minecraft Movie Theater Reaction.” In the clip, the whole place goes

Hollywood needed “A Minecraft Movie” to be a hit, and it delivered in its opening weekend, significantly narrowing this year’s box office deficit. No one guessed just how big it would be. In its first few days in theaters,

With rumors swirling about the Warner Bros. film bosses' fates, the coming months will be telling as the studio stares down a slate full of original (and expensive) swings from big-name filmmakers.

Walmart has recently launched its own exclusive Blu-ray collector's edition of the movie that is made to look like a Minecraft crafting table and it actually seems pretty awesome. Walmart's exclusive Blu-ray edition of A Minecraft movie comes with a Blu-ray disc,