{"id":140446,"date":"2025-04-06T10:13:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T17:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=140446"},"modified":"2025-04-06T10:13:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T17:13:45","slug":"a-minecraft-movie-levels-up-the-box-office-with-big-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/a-minecraft-movie-levels-up-the-box-office-with-big-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"A Minecraft Movie levels up the box office with big numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warner Bros.\u2019 <strong>A Minecraft Movie<\/strong> has smashed all expectations, raking in a jaw-dropping $157 million at the U.S. box office and $144 million overseas, for a worldwide total of $301 million. This epic debut dethroned previous video game adaptation records and gave life to the box office that had been feeling seriously deflated.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopBase\/status\/1908904204199952789\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018A Minecraft Movie\u2019 debuts with a record-breaking $157M at the domestic box office.<\/p>\n<p>It marks the biggest box office 3-day opening for a video game film adaptation. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/onMdZRY9KP\">pic.twitter.com\/onMdZRY9KP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pop Base (@PopBase) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopBase\/status\/1908904204199952789?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Helmed by <strong>Jared Hess<\/strong>\u2014famed for indie hits like Napoleon Dynamite\u2014this film stars an all-star cast featuring <strong>Jason Momoa, Jack Black, Jennifer Coolidge<\/strong>, and more. Inspired by the mega-popular Mojang Studios video game Minecraft, the story follows a group that\u2019s plunged through a portal into the Minecraft realm. Determined to make it back home, they team up with a master crafter, portrayed by Black as the iconic character Steve.<\/p>\n<p>Legendary Pictures joined forces with Warner Bros. for this mega-project, throwing down 25 percent of the reported $150 million budget. With A Minecraft Movie now reigning supreme, industry insiders are celebrating a fresh surge of hype at the theaters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warner Bros.\u2019 A Minecraft Movie has smashed all expectations, raking in a jaw-dropping $157 million at the U.S. box office and $144 million overseas, for a worldwide total of $301 million. This epic debut dethroned previous video game adaptation records and gave life to the box office that had been feeling seriously deflated. Helmed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":140447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,1399],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-140446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-movies"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140446"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=140446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}