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‘A Minecraft Movie’ Shatters Box Office Expectations With Record-Breaking $157 Million Opening Weekend
"A Minecraft Movie" leveled up at the box office, collecting a record-breaking $157 million in its opening weekend.
Jared Hess (“Napoleon Dynamite,” “Nacho Libre”) directed “A Minecraft Movie,” which follows a group of misfits who are pulled through a portal into a cubic world and guided by an expert crafter named Steve (Black). (Just ask the backers of last year’s “Borderlands.”) However, game-based films have fielded more hits than misses of late with “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” “Sonic the Hedgehog” and Tom Holland’s “Uncharted” all scoring at the box office. Disney’s live-action “Snow White,” starring Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot, tumbled to fourth place with $6 million from 3,750 venues in its third outing.
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