{"id":2609,"date":"2025-04-05T02:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T02:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/2609\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T02:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T02:20:09","slug":"a-minecraft-movie-grosses-18-4m-in-early-overseas-box-office-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/2609\/","title":{"rendered":"A Minecraft Movie Grosses $18.4M In Early Overseas Box Office Play"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWarner Bros<\/a>\/Legendary<\/a>\u2019s A Minecraft Movie<\/a> is digging into a strong start at the international box office<\/a>, with projections for the overseas and global weekend rising. Through Thursday in 55 offshore markets, the running cume is $18.4M<\/strong>. This does not include Friday\u2019s China opening which was the biggest for a Hollywood film so far this year at an estimated $6.6M (see more detail below).<\/p>\n

\n\tAlong with China, another 19 markets open today including the UK and Spain. We\u2019ll know better tomorrow how high the Jason Momoa<\/a>\/Jack Black<\/a>-starrer\u2019s global launch could go, but it\u2019s looking like upwards of $90M international while Anthony has noted that domestic projections<\/a> are at $80M+. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tEurope is expected to build big numbers on the Jared Hess-directed movie as school breaks begin and despite some sunny weather. The Middle East has already seen terrific results, at $4.4M through Thursday including previews that began on Monday to coincide with Eid.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Asian markets that have opened are seeing No. 1 starts, and Latin America is totally digging the movie. The bows so far there have all been No. 1s while the film is taking a 90% share of the Top 5 titles in the region for the best 2025 debut across the Lat Am markets, and the best-ever for Jack Black (excluding animated titles). 3D represents 19% of the total box office there.<\/p>\n

\n\tMexico<\/strong>, where the team traveled for a well-attended fan event last month, was the top Thursday play at a clear No. 1 of $1.9M, performing 13% above Sonic the Hedgehog, 54% ahead of Kung Fu Panda 4, 80% higher than Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse\u00a0and more than double Free Guy, the recent Jumanji movies and Pok\u00e9mon: Detective Pikachu.<\/p>\n

\n\tGermany<\/strong> was next on Thursday at $1.7M including previews and with a 56% share of the market at No. 1. This is the best start of 2025 and is significantly higher than the above comps as well as double Free Guy, Jumanji: The Next Level, Pikachu, Sonic 2 and Into the Spider-Verse, among others.<\/p>\n

\n\tFrance<\/strong>\u2019s Wednesday opening of $1.3M was the top start of 2025 (excluding previews). Opening day results are bigger than Sonic 2 (+7%), Sonic 3 (+25%) Across the Spider-Verse (+53%) and KFP 4 (+97%) as well as double some of the other comps. The cume in France through two days is $1.5M.<\/p>\n

\n\tMinecraft was a dominant No. 1 in Australia<\/strong> on Thursday with $1.1M, which is 9% ahead of The Super Mario Bros Movie and above all other comps.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBrazil<\/strong>\u2019s Thursday debut was No. 1 at $759K, roughly on par with the opening days of Sonic 3 and Into the Spider-Verse while higher than most other comps.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Top 5 markets through Thursday are Mexico<\/strong> ($1.9M), Germany<\/strong> ($1.7M), UAE<\/strong> ($1.6M), France<\/strong> ($1.5M) and Saudi Arabia<\/strong> ($1.5M).<\/p>\n

\n\tTurning to China<\/strong>, the launch was well above expectations on Friday with a No. 1 start that took 30% of a crowded frame. Released locally by Legendary East, the movie had the top opening day of the year for a Hollywood title with an estimated $6.6M. Friday alone was bigger than the full weekend projection for the market. Though there is competition from local titles this session, this is a great start that after just one day makes it the 2nd biggest import of the year. Including last year\u2019s releases, it scored the 4th biggest opening day for a Hollywood title of 2024\/25, behind Godzilla x Kong, Venom: The Last Dance and Deadpool & Wolverine.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWe\u2019ll have updates throughout the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warner Bros\/Legendary\u2019s A Minecraft Movie is digging into a strong start at the international box office, with projections…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1078,77,1615,1616,1617,1080,16,15,1082],"class_list":{"0":"post-2609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-a-minecraft-movie","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-international-box-office","11":"tag-jack-black","12":"tag-jason-momoa","13":"tag-legendary","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-warner-bros"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114282969344601652","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}