Having completed over two full weeks in theaters, A Minecraft Movie has hit another major milestone at the domestic box office. The video game adaptation has broken into the list of the top 100 movies of all time, having overtaken a string of iconic releases. A Minecraft Movie broke records in its domestic debut, out-performing fellow video game adaptation The Super Mario Bros. Movie and fellow Warner Bros. hit Barbie. Both those titles grossed over $1.3 billion worldwide, and A Minecraft Movie can realistically hit the coveted $1 billion milestone as well, at the rate it's going.
The movie is passing the $350 million mark domestically — a feat that it accomplished in under 20 days. Most recently, it overtook The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers to become one of the 75 highest-grossing films in domestic box office history. On its third Tuesday, it overtook blockbusters such as American Sniper and Transformers: Dark of the Moon. After breaking into the top 100, A Minecraft Movie surpassed the lifetime domestic totals of movies such as Joker, Spider-Man 3, and Oppenheimer.
The ceiling is still unclear, but it's perhaps a given at this point that the movie ultimately passes the $400 million mark, and even the $500 million mark if things work out.
Directed by Jared Hess, who was previously best known for the cult comedy Napoleon Dynamite, the movie stars Jack Black and Jason Momoa in the central roles. With over $720 million worldwide, it's currently the second-biggest video game adaptation of all time, behind only Super Mario Bros. It's also the biggest Hollywood hit of the year, and the second-biggest overall, behind China's Ne Zha 2.
Produced on a reported budget of $150 million, A Minecraft Movie turned things around for W.B. this year, after the back-to-back under-performance of Mickey 17 and The Alto Knights. The studio continued this positive momentum with Ryan Coogler's Sinners, which debuted with a $48 million haul domestically last week.
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