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‘A Minecraft Movie’ Aims for $70 Million-Plus in Domestic Box Office Debut
Warner Bros. and Legendary's cinematic take on the beloved video game is targeting $70 million to $80 million in its domestic opening weekend.
(Just ask the backers of last year’s “Borderlands.”) However, “Minecraft” seems like it’ll avoid the fate of the litany of failed video game adaptations and find itself closer to the company of Paramount’s “Sonic the Hedgehog” and Tom Holland’s “Uncharted.” It would need several lives in theaters to near the box heights of Universal’s “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” which is the highest-grossing video game adaptation in history with $1.3 billion — not that “Minecraft” needs to hit the billion-dollar mark to be considered a triumph. Jared Hess (“Napoleon Dynamite,” “Nacho Libre”) directed “A Minecraft Movie,” which stars Jason Momoa, Jack Black and Danielle Brooks and cost $150 million to produce. Variety’s chief film critic Owen Gleiberman praised the performance of Black (“no one can ever say that he phones it in”) as well as the director’s take on the story.
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