What’s Driving A Minecraft Movie to Steal 2025’s Box Office Crown? Discover Why This Is Hot Now!

Meet your new box office king, 2025: A Minecraft Movie charged toward a stellar second week atop the box office following its explosive premiere, earning $80.6 million for a total domestic gross of $280.9 million.

Last weekend’s $157 million open earned the film several titles: Warner Bros.’ big-screen video game adaptation became 2025’s most profitable premiere, Warners’ largest opening weekend since 2023, and the second-most profitable video game adaptation debut of all time, behind 2023’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie.

The adventure-comedy starring Jason Momoa, Jennifer Coolidge, Danielle Brooks, and Jack Black has now earned its most prestigious distinction: 2025’s highest-grossing movie domestically. A Minecraft Movie has already outgrossed Marvel’s Captain America: Brave New World at the domestic box office, which premiered way back on Feb. 14 and still hasn’t been made available as a digital release (but is due to stream as VOD on Tuesday).

THE KING OF KINGS

A production still from ‘The King of Kings’ animated feature.Angel Studios/Courtesy Everett Collection

A Minecraft Movie dropped 50 percent in its second week of release, but still well within range to maintain confidence that the film will continue to be a big earner. The film also won the top spot at the global box office this weekend, taking in $160.2 million for a total gross of $550.5 million.

The rest of the domestic leaderboard pales in comparison to the mighty Minecraft Movie, but that the rest of the top five is composed of premieres is notable. Christian outfit Angel Studios’ starry animated Biblical epic, The King of Kings, takes second place with $19 million. Third goes to the Rami Malek political thriller from 20th Century Studios, The Amateur, which earned an even $15 million against its $60 million budget.

Rounding out in fourth and fifth are A24’s Iraq War thriller Warfare, which stars virtually every it-boy of the past decade and debuted to $8.3 million, and the Universal thriller Drop, which debuted to $7.5 million and gave star Meghann Fahy her first try at big-screen stardom following her breakout role on The White Lotus season 2.

The global picture looks much the same as its domestic counterpart this weekend. A Minecraft Movie left its competition in the dust for a second week running, with The Amateur and The King of Kings swapping for second and third place. The former film grossed an impressive $32.2 million at the global box office, with Jang Seong-ho’s strange Charles Dickens adaptation grossing $19.6 million.

Replacing Warfare altogether in the top five is the Tamil action-comedy Good Bad Ugly, starring Indian superstar Ajith Kumar. That film earned the fourth spot on the global box office chart with a $16.7 million global debut, followed by Drop, which grossed $10 million globally.

Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Captain America in Marvel Studios' CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD

Anthony Mackie in’ ‘Captain America: Brave New World’.Eli Adé/Marvel

The film to watch in next weekend’s box office race is Sinners, the new film from Ryan Coogler. Still riding high off the uber-successful Black Panther films, Coogler tries his hand at a new genre with the horror film Sinners. The film stars Michael B. Jordan in a dual role as twins who return to their hometown in the Prohibition-era South only to find it infested with ravenous vampires.

Coogler praised Jordan’s “beautiful performance” to Entertainment Weekly in January, with Jordan adding, “Playing twins was definitely a challenge. It was part of the reason why I wanted to take the role.”

If blood, guts, and fangs aren’t your speed, next weekend’s releases also include down-to-Earth Carey Mulligan comedy The Ballad of Wallis Island and Andrew Ahn’s remake of Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet, starring Lily Gladstone, Bowen Yang, and Kelly Marie Tran.

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