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‘A Minecraft Movie’ Mushrooms To $163M, Higher Than ‘Barbie’s Opening, Record For Videogame Pic; Warner Bros Brings The Box Office Back Alive

'A Minecraft Movie' from Warner Bros amassed $10.55 million in Thursday previews, the best ever for a videogame movie. The outlook is a huge $100M opening at the box office.

This puts the 3-day at$145M, but don’t be surprised if Warners calls it higher tomorrow morning and if this feature take on the Mojang game comes in as the best debut for a videogame pic, squashing The Super Mario Bros Movie ‘s 3-day ($146.3M; remember, that Illumination/Universal title bowed on a Wednesday). FRIDAY MIDDAY UPDATE: Mr. Zaslav, I’d like to direct your attention over to the motion picture executive suite where co-chiefs Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy have an absolute, jaw-dropping hit on their hands in Legendary’s A Minecraft Movie. At a time when the domestic box office this year is 11% behind 2024, and on a day when President Donald Trump has just turned the economy upside down with global tariffs, the Burbank, CA lot is looking at a big hit this weekend in AMinecraft Movie.

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