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Box Office: ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Strikes Gold With Record-Shattering $157M U.S. Launch, $301M Globally
Warner Bros.' kid-friendly movie shattered all expectations to score the top start ever for a video-adaptation, as well as rouse the beleaguered box office back to life.
The film came in tens of millions ahead of expectations to score the top start ever for a video game adaptation, besting the $146.4 three-day launch of Universal Pictures’ The Super Mario Bros. Movie over Easter weekend in 2023. Ditto for Legendary, whose movie chief Mary Parent — is a credited producer and is given major props for suggesting that Jared Hess ( Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre) be hired to direct the pic. “We’re absolutely overjoyed A Minecraft Movie has been so warmly received by audiences around the world,” Abdy and De Luca said in statement thanking all involved, from Hess to the cast to Legendary and Vertigo, another producing partner.
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