Goldstein is optimistic that “Minecraft” will help turn the box office tides. Fortunes have already begun to shift. Prior to this weekend, box office revenues were nearly 11% behind last year and 40% behind 2019, according to Comscore. Now the gap has shrunk to 5.3% behind 2024 and 35% behind 2019.

According to studio estimates Sunday, the video game adaptation earned $157 million domestically and $144 million internationally for a $301 million global debut.

If you've spent any time online since the Minecraft movie debuted, chances are you've seen the term "Chicken Jockey" flying around. What started as a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo has quickly turned into the film's most talked-about moment,

Weekend ticket sales totaled $163 million, Warner Bros. said, more than double the expected amount, ending a Hollywood dry spell.

This past weekend, following a Q1 when the industry fretted that moviegoers forgot about going to the movies, Warner Bros. and Legendary revived the global and domestic box office with the Jared Hess directed A Minecraft Movie with a $163M U.

The collaboration between McDonald's and "A Minecraft Movie" is only around for a limited time. Here's when it might be pulled from menus.

: Warner Bros/Legendary’s A Minecraft Movie has come in with an astounding $301M global opening. Of that, $144.1M is from the international box office. As we’ve noted throughout the weekend (see below),

Walmart has recently launched its own exclusive Blu-ray collector's edition of the movie that is made to look like a Minecraft crafting table and it actually seems pretty awesome. Walmart's exclusive Blu-ray edition of A Minecraft movie comes with a Blu-ray disc,