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Extraordinary story behind the Minecraft movie that may just save cinema: It's causing mayhem, with teenage audiences throwing popcorn and confetti everywhere, but it could bail out the struggling box-office
Screenings have descended into utter pandemonium, with demented teenagers and twentysomethings drowning each other in flying popcorn.
Noting the ‘exceptional’ audience response, Phil Clapp, chief executive of the UK Cinema Association, said most of the behaviour had been good-natured and was ‘seemingly driven by the desire of young people to share their experiences on social media’. Thankfully, there’s no attempt at social engineering in A Minecraft Movie, just a lot of harmless silliness (with minimal plot) about a mismatched foursome in modern-day Idaho who are pulled through a mysterious portal into a Minecraft-like cubic wonderland called the Overworld. However, having bought a $70 million mansion in Beverly Hills and sometimes spending more than $180,000 a night in Las Vegas nightclubs, Persson complained his riches had ruined his life and – despite his new celebrity friends – made him lonely and purposeless.
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