{"id":6815,"date":"2025-04-10T05:17:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T05:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/6815\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T05:17:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T05:17:50","slug":"a-minecraft-movie-to-see-65m-second-weekend-at-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/6815\/","title":{"rendered":"‘A Minecraft Movie’ To See $65M Second Weekend at Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBetter late than never. Hollywood major studios are catching up with the fact that\u2019s it\u2019s spring break and that there\u2019s an audience out there for movies, not just with Warner Bros\/Legendary\u2019s monolithic A Minecraft Movie<\/a><\/strong> driving business, set for a second weekend -60% or $65M<\/strong>, but also five wide entries hitting the marketplace before the traditionally lucrative Easter weekend of April 18-20 (that\u2019s when Warners opens Ryan Coogler\u2019s period vampire movie Sinners starring Michael B. Jordan).<\/p>\n

\n\tComscore reports that 10% of K-12 schools are off this Friday and 1% colleges, moving to 72% K-12 off, 28% colleges on break on Good Friday, April 18.<\/p>\n

\n\tMinecraft notched the fourth-biggest Tuesday in April yesterday with $12.7M, after 2019\u2019s Avengers: Endgame ($33.1M), 2023\u2019s The Super Mario Bros Movie ($15.4M) and 2015\u2019s F7 ($13.3M). The running cume through five days (Friday-Tuesday) is $185.4M. Although that\u2019s 9% lower than the first five days of Super Mario Bros ($204.6M), really the latter was a different spread \u2014 Wednesday through Sunday over Easter weekend. Super Mario Bros had a massive second weekend of $92.3M, -37%. It remains to be seen whether Minecraft has that kind of wonderous hold.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: The Movies That Have Made More Than $1 Billion At The Box Office<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"'The<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tRami Malek in \u2018The Amateur\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t20th Century Studios<\/p>\n

\n\tAmong the four wide entries looking to lead after Minecraft is 20th Century Studios\u2019 Rami Malek $60M thriller The Amateur <\/strong>with $12M<\/strong>. The James Hawes-directed pic follows a decoder who takes matters into his own hands after his supervisors at the CIA refuse to take action for his wife\u2019s murder in a London terrorist attack. Disney isn\u2019t shy about lifting the Rotten Tomatoes embargo on the movie after early screenings (which will be rolled into Thursday) with 86% with audiences and 68% fresh with critics. Previews start at 2 p.m. Thursday. The Amateur is booked at 3,300 theaters\u00a0including 400 Imax auditoriums (which will be shared with Minecraft and A24\u2019s Warfare), 300 PLF screens (also shared with both pics) and 100 D-Box\/Motion screens.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018The Amateur\u2019 Review: Rami Malek In Gripping Global Spy Thriller That Is Bourne For Computer Nerds<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"'The<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\u2018The King of Kings\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAngel Studios\/Everett Collection<\/p>\n

\n\tAngel Studios\u2019 animated movie The King of Kings<\/strong> also has a shot at possibly $12M <\/strong>after $7.8M in advance ticket sales as we told you first, which is more than the studio\u2019s Sound of Freedom.<\/a> The movie is inspired by author Charles Dickens and follows a father and son as they embark on an imaginative journey through the life of Jesus. The pic is 75% fresh with critics. King of Kings\u00a0was directed by Seong-Ho Jang and features Kenneth Branagh as Charles Dickens, Uma Thurman as Catherine Dickens, Pierce Brosnan as Pontius Pilate, Mark Hamill as King Herod, Forest Whitaker as Peter,\u00a0Ben Kingsley as High Priest Caiaphas\u00a0and\u00a0Oscar Isaac as Jesus Christ.\u00a0Previews launch at 11 a.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018A Minecraft Movie\u2019s Jared Hess Talks Sequel, The Man Crush Between Jack Black And Jason Momoa & Hitting Zeitgeist Gold Decades After \u2018Napoleon Dynamite\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"'Warfare'<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Warfare\u2019 <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA24\/Everett Collection<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter The Iron Claw ($4.8M 3-day) and its dystopian right-vs.-left thriller Civil War a year ago ($25.5M), A24 is looking to attract South and Central state moviegoers with Warfare<\/strong>, which is eyeing $7M-$9M+<\/strong> at 2,650 theaters. Co-directed by Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza, the first-person-shooter Navy SEAL platoon movie has played like gangbusters with military audiences and vets. It follows a troupe as they embark on a dangerous mission in Ramadi, Iraq. There were early paid screenings as well, and those will be rolled into Friday. Warfare is 92% fresh with critics. Previews starts at 4 p.m. Thursday. Warfare cost a net $20M before P&A.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018Warfare\u2019 Review: Alex Garland\u2019s Iraq War Film Is Full Of Bombastic Aestheticism That Leaves You Feeling Empty<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tNote that there\u2019s a feeling out there in the marketplace that all three of those top three movies could overindex and do above these projections. Warfare is a little stronger than Amateur in men under 25 for first choice, but men over 25 are higher on Amateur. The notion is that Amateur will play on the coasts and Warfare in the heartland as far as conflicting demos go.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018A Minecraft Movie\u2019 Cast And Character Guide: From Jack Black\u2019s Steve To Jennifer Coolidge\u2019s Marlene<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tUniversal Pictures<\/p>\n

\n\tBlumhouse continues is lackluster opening streak this year with the $11M production of Drop<\/strong>, which is looking to do between $6M-$7M<\/strong> at 3,000 theaters. Rated PG-13, Drop made its world premiere at SXSW and stars The White Lotus\u2018 Meghann Fahy, who goes on a blind date with It Ends With Us\u2018 Brandon Sklenar. She gets bombarded with anonymous threatening messages during the posh date, making for a game of cat and mouse in a Chicago restaurant. Not so bad with critics at 88% fresh. Previews start at 1:50 p.m. Thursday. Females ages 17-34 are the target demo.<\/p>\n

\n\tFathom has the third part of The Chosen: Last Supper<\/strong> booked at 2,297 theaters. Part 2 did $6.9M last weekend, while Part 1 two weekends ago debuted to $11.8M.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018A Minecraft Movie\u2019 Review: Jack Black And Jason Momoa Dig Deep For Meaning In Video Game Adaptation With Some Jennifer Coolidge Gems<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Better late than never. Hollywood major studios are catching up with the fact that\u2019s it\u2019s spring break and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[1078,77,1616,1617,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-6815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-a-minecraft-movie","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-jack-black","11":"tag-jason-momoa","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114311980873430077","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6815","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=6815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}