A MINECRAFT MOVIE Opens Bigger Than BARBIE With Massive $163M Domestic Debut

A Minecraft Movie has exceeded all domestic and international box office estimates by opening bigger than the mighty Barbie with a huge $163 million debut...

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By MarkCassidy - Apr 07, 2025 01:04 PM EST

Filed Under: Video Games

Source: Via GameFragger.com

CHICKEN JOCKEY!

Box office tracking predicted a strong debut for Legendary's A Minecraft Movie, but it's probably fair to assume that nobody saw the video game adaptation opening this big.

The family-friendly adventure now looks set to conclude its opening weekend with both domestic and international numbers way above studio estimates, with a $163 million U.S. haul and $150.7 million overseas for a massive $313.7 million global bow.

Yes, this would put A Minecraft Movie ahead of the mighty Barbie (though it wouldn't quite reach the Greta Gerwig-directed comedy's worldwide opening weekend total of $356 million), to give it Warner Bros.' third-biggest domestic debut of all time.

Though audiences are clearly embracing the movie, critics haven't been quite so impressed. Minecraft is currently sitting at 47% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 116 reviews.

The site's critics consensus reads: "Ostensibly a film about celebrating creativity, A Minecraft Movie provides a colorful sandbox for Jack Black and Jason Momoa to amusingly romp around in a story curiously constructed from conventional building blocks."

Have you been to see A Minecraft Movie? If so, what did you think? Be sure to drop us a comment down below.

MON UPDATE - #MinecraftMovie blows past estimates to finish opening wknd #boxoffice at staggering $163M!! SUN came in stronger than projected at $46.3M (-22%) instead of $39M (-35%) studio estimate. #Minecraft opened bigger than Barbie!! 🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/etlkKJhas2
— Gitesh Pandya (TikTok @gitesh.pandya) (@GiteshPandya) April 7, 2025

The Overworld is waiting for you! 🟩 #MinecraftMovie is out THIS FRIDAY! Gets tickets now: https://t.co/D3Jsbk6KCb pic.twitter.com/Fn0Q6grlEY
— Minecraft (@Minecraft) March 31, 2025

Welcome to the world of Minecraft, where creativity doesn’t just help you craft, it’s essential to one’s survival! Four misfits - Garrett "The Garbage Man" Garrison, Henry, Natalie, and Dawn - find themselves struggling with ordinary problems when they are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into the Overworld: a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination. To get back home, they’ll have to master this world (and protect it from evil things like Piglins and Zombies, too) while embarking on a magical quest with an unexpected, expert crafter, Steve. Together, their adventure will challenge all five to be bold and to reconnect with the qualities that make each of them uniquely creative...the very skills they need to thrive back in the real world.

With a cast led by Black (The Super Mario Bros. Movie) and Jason Momoa (Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom), A Minecraft Movie also stars Emma Myers (Wednesday), Danielle Brooks (Peacemaker), Sebastian Eugene Hansen (Just Mercy), and Jennifer Coolidge (The White Lotus).

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soberchimera - 4/7/2025, 1:04 PM

Doombot - 4/7/2025, 1:09 PM

@soberchimera - Not something I have an interest in but hell let people enjoy some dumb, mindless and fun movies.

Nolanite - 4/7/2025, 1:26 PM

@Doombot - can't say the same for people not enjoying the emm she ewe movies

Nolanite out

MakeAmericaGrea - 4/7/2025, 1:31 PM

@Doombot -

Fun?

Have you seen this movie?

Why are you saying it's fun?

KaptainKhaos - 4/7/2025, 2:27 PM

@MakeAmericaGrea - you haven't seen this movie either

Scarilian - 4/7/2025, 3:27 PM

@soberchimera -
Humans deserve better than this film.

This film could be used as a torture device, it feels like I'm worse off having experienced it.

• The pacing is horrific, you feel every agonizing second watching this.
• The comedy does not land.
• The villain is bland and her motivation is failing at 'Nether's Got Talent'.
• The writing is bad enough any lines said are contradicted, probably a result of 5+ writers
• Minecraft elements do not act the way it should do.
• Boy character is a Gary Stu and unlikable.
• Both female characters are superfluous and add nothing to the film.

Jason Momoa feels like he's inserted himself into this film just to mess around with Jack Black - both are just trying to be as hammy as possible stating random things they see around them trying to outdo each other in how over-the-top the acting is.

There's a failed attempt at a rivalry between Jack Black and Jason Momoa, then a few scenes in they just start doing sex positions in the air during a chase scene with Jack Black giving him a pet name after - Jack Black shouting about letting his 'hips do the talking' before they switch to '69' mid-air with Jason Momoa advising him to get closer to his crotch so they can escape a chase by flying through a tight opening.

The female principal character introduces herself by saying she is divorced, proceeds to talk about how she wants Jason 'garbage man' Momoa to take her to the rubbish tip and plow her raccoon filled vagina... then she runs over a villager, does an ad placement for a truck and the film ends with her in a relationship with a villager.

In a time when Sonic Movie 3 was celebrated by fans and critics and Lego Movie is still highly regarded, you can do well written kids movies and still have them be enjoyable by a wide audience. Instead this is slop... yet it'll make $1bn due to nostalgia and memes.

bobevanz - 4/7/2025, 4:04 PM

I went in knowing this was directed by the Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre. They're self aware and it ended up being then I thought. I also have never played Minecraft lol but this will easily clear 1 billion. Expect a sequel announcement in a couple weeks

bobevanz - 4/7/2025, 4:04 PM

@MakeAmericaGrea - because it is dumb ass

JFerguson - 4/7/2025, 1:05 PM

CHICKEN JOCKEY

Matador - 4/7/2025, 2:29 PM

@JFerguson - What is this my son keeps saying this?

JFerguson - 4/7/2025, 2:33 PM

@Matador - im so sorry. Your son has an incurable condition known as brain rot

Matador - 4/7/2025, 2:37 PM

@JFerguson - So you don't know what this means either or you also have brain rot?

MCUKnight11 - 4/7/2025, 1:08 PM

Even as someone who never thought this looked good, I always thought it would do well. As for me, I would just like to say that the concept was executed way better over a decade ago with the Lego movie.

ZaphodDent42 - 4/7/2025, 1:09 PM

@MCUKnight11 - but let's face it, the lego movie is truly Awesome!

TheVisionary25 - 4/7/2025, 1:27 PM

@MCUKnight11 - I haven’t seen Mine raft yet but the Lego Movie at this point is a dang classic…

So good!!.

ZaphodDent42 - 4/7/2025, 1:08 PM

This was always going to do well regardless of what critics said. From what I've been told by friends, the story is awful but it's worth it just to see creepers etc on the big screen. I'm looking forward to downloading it for sure.

ZaphodDent42 - 4/7/2025, 5:57 PM

@ZaphodDent42 - well my friends were wrong in my opinion! I made it 40 minutes before turning it off, honestly so bad.

supermanrex - 4/7/2025, 1:10 PM

all the butthurt adults makes no [frick]ing sense to me. it was never meant to be their movie. stop bitching about it doing good, you are not the intended audience!!

MakeAmericaGrea - 4/7/2025, 1:30 PM

@supermanrex -

Kids deserve better than this slop.

Many better kids movies have been made.

And Jack Black condones political violence and his endeavors should fail.

And this movie is being shill bombed on IMDB.

But of course the liberals working at IMDB, and other liberals will ignore that.

SATW42 - 4/7/2025, 1:36 PM

@supermanrex - I'm an adult, I really am enjoying that it's successful, and I think a bunch of kids riding the meme wave and ironically enjoying the movie is fine. I just wish they could do it without trashing theatres and getting police involved.

That's a reasonable take I think lmao

IAmAHoot - 4/7/2025, 2:06 PM

@supermanrex - I get what you're saying, but incidentally you're here bitching like a butthurt adult about the people bitching about the movie though...

KaptainKhaos - 4/7/2025, 2:29 PM

@MakeAmericaGrea - you need to develop an actual personality instead of making Politics your personality.

If people are enjoying a dumb movie then that's great

supermanrex - 4/7/2025, 3:18 PM

@MakeAmericaGrea - no matter how you try to twist shit. normal kids dont care about nobodies political bullshit. hence they dont give a shit about your and other people hyper political hot takes on everything. there are tons of stupid kid cartoons and shows out now, but its for kids and i dont take the actual time to go trash it because kids dont give a damn what i or any other adult think about what they watch. i know i sure the [frick] didnt when i watched my favorite shows as a kid.

supermanrex - 4/7/2025, 3:24 PM

@KaptainKhaos - some people cant let politics go. i dont [frick]ing understand living in such a way that you relate everything to politics. dude is on a comic book movie site acting like this the fox news comments section.

Scarilian - 4/7/2025, 3:39 PM

@supermanrex -
It's disturbing that there are attempts to normalize acceptance of low quality media, especially with the moronic excuse that 'it's made for a different target audience so it's fine being shit'

It's also insultingly hypocritical, as you clearly are passionate about films and projects that are not in your intended audience and likewise will praise movies that you are not the intended audience for. It's just some bullshit you and others use to silence people.

We've seen what people can do when they have passion and care for the writing and the fans: Puss In Boots - The Last Wish, Sonic Movie 3, The Lego Movie. These films get praised by audiences and critics alike.

Demand better of the content that shapes your entertainment landscape or it will have impacts on your future entertainment.

The lessons they will learn from Minecraft should fricking terrify you for any entertainment moving forward as it'll impact a wide variety of filmography targeting a wide variety of audiences.

KaptainKhaos - 4/7/2025, 4:00 PM

@supermanrex - he's a tourist, he doesn't read comics, plays video games or watched movies, he's been sent to divide and turn another fandom site into garbage, it's what they do

supermanrex - 4/7/2025, 5:04 PM

@Scarilian - still doesn't change simple facts. kids are loving this movie. kids will want to watch shit that makes adults scratch their heads. its the way it goes. never going to change. minecraft is a hit and the sequel if not already will be green lit. deal with it. its so funny how outraged grown folks are over this [frick]ing movie.

supermanrex - 4/7/2025, 5:06 PM

@KaptainKhaos - which is a sad existence. [frick]ing clown shoes for sure.

Steel86 - 4/7/2025, 1:11 PM

Kids love Minecraft. And kid films have a built-in bonus as most times it the kid and at least one adult.

SummersClan - 4/7/2025, 1:11 PM

I went with my 12 year old, and good lord, was the theater a god dang Zoo and when it wasn’t, everyone was just texting and chatting. I can see why it’s huge. It’s just an opportunity to have a party watching a stupid, but fun film.

HulkisHoly - 4/7/2025, 1:37 PM

@SummersClan -

Yeah not surprised. Kids are obsessed with Minecraft. This basically guarantees a sequel and a Fortnite movie soon too.

SummersClan - 4/7/2025, 3:33 PM

@HulkisHoly - True, it’s popular but I think it’s more than that. I think the community aspect that was generated seeing this was what helped propel it further. That’s just my anecdotal thought.

Fortnite is definitely going to happen, I agree. We might very well see a Video game movie renaissance. Looking forward to the Zelda movie as a fan of those games.

HulkisHoly - 4/7/2025, 5:47 PM

@SummersClan -

It’s definitely a weird shift that sonic brought. After that movie did well, other studios were jumping on the video game adaptation bandwagon.

Superheromoviefan - 4/7/2025, 1:15 PM

not gonna lie stuff like that turn me into an old man shaking my fist

THEKENDOMAN - 4/7/2025, 1:16 PM

I’m not interested per say in this as I’ve said before.

But I’m very happy for Jack Black.

He needs a big hit like this to add to his resume.

I’m a big fan of his and his band Tenacious D.

So big up to Jack and congrats.

I’ll wait till the movie is on Sky Cinema.

For [frick]s Sakes

StSteven - 4/7/2025, 5:46 PM

@THEKENDOMAN - Right there with you about Jack Black. Been a fan of his for a long time (gotta love Ten D), going back to his early days on "Mr. Show". I don't know if you happen to catch that show back when it was on HBO in the mid-90's, but if not it's s sketch comedy show created by Bob Odenkirk and David Cross and it's absolutely hilarious (I have the first 2 seasons on disc soI revisit it from time to time). Jack would pop up from time to time in various sketches, but my favorite was probably the one where they did a musical version of the classic joke about the traveling salesman and the 3 holes in the farmer's barn (you can look it up if it doesn't ring a bell). In that Jack plays the devil who ends up buying leather pants for his gay son (it makes sense when you watch it).

Anyhow, good for Jack and I'll be interested in seeing how the "Anaconda" remake with him and Paul Rudd goes (although the first trailer doesn't look particularly good but I'm hoping it's a misdirect).

THEKENDOMAN - 4/7/2025, 6:07 PM

@StSteven - I never watched Mr Show but I'm going to check it out.

Yeah, Jack is the man. I fell for him when I watched School of Rock. He was just brilliant in that film. He reminds me so much of Danny Devito, in a quirky way.

Anaconda remake has a trailer??

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