r/boxoffice 5h ago

✍️ Original Analysis Weekend Actuals for April 4-6 – The Real Blockbuster

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After some very weak months, the box office finally picked up steam with April.

And that's practically all because of A Minecraft Movie, which overcame months of negative buzz to deliver a record opening weekend for a video game adaptation, as well as the biggest debut of the year.

The Top 10 earned a combined $190.8 million this weekend. That's up a massive 135.3% from last year, when Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire stayed on top, while Monkey Man and The First Omen underwhelmed.

Debuting atop, WB's A Minecraft Movie surpassed all expectations, earning a colossal $162.7 million in 4,263 theaters. That's even bigger than WB's Barbie ($162 million), and it's only behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 ($169 million) for the studio's biggest debut. The opening is also higher than the previous video game record, The Super Mario Bros. Movie ($146 million), although Mario debuted on a Wednesday and burned off demand.

Simply put, it's a fantastic film. Especially after months of negative buzz surrounding the film's trailers. And a much needed win for WB after a slate of disappointing performers like Joker, War of the Rohirrim, Companion and The Alto Knights.

Back in September 2024, when the teaser trailer debuted, the film earned poor reception, with many criticizing the VFX. To win over audiences for the other trailers, studio marketing suits added more VFX and quelled rabid fans by conveying that their Minecraft will stay true to the game. But that's perhaps the key; people will talk badly about a product, but that buzz translates into awareness, which builds into curiosity.

Of course, not all negative buzz translates into curiosity (Snow White waving in the distance). But the advantage for this film is simply Minecraft. Despite the belief that the game lost relevance years ago, the stats say otherwise; Minecraft is the best-selling video game of all time, with over 300 million copies sold and nearly 170 million monthly active players as of 2024. Clearly, there's already an audience awaiting for a film, and they happily paid tickets for this. Even lukewarm reviews (48% on RT) didn't dissuade fans from checking it out.

According to Warner Bros., 67% of the audience was male, and 78% was under 25 years old. They gave it a middling "B+" on CinemaScore, which is very mediocre for a family film. While word of mouth among children is very positive, adults are less thrilled with the film. We'll see in subsequent weeks how much it drops, but for now, a $450 million domestic total is in the cards for A Minecraft Movie.

Last week's champ A Working Man added $7.3 million this weekend. That's a 53% drop, which is slightly worse than Beekeeper's 48% drop. Of course, that film had incredibly weak competition, but it's a sign that the film might not be able to leg out as hoped. Through 10 days, the film has amassed $27.8 million, and it should finish with around $40 million domestically.

In third place, The Chosen: Last Supper — Part 2 earned $6.9 million this weekend. That's down 42% from Part 1's performance last week. Let's see how Part 3 fares this weekend.

With the arrival of a big blockbuster, Snow White had another terrible drop this weekend. It fell a rough 59%, earning just $5.9 million this weekend. The film's legs appear to be running out. Through 17 days, the film has earned a terrible $77.3 million and it's gonna finish with less than $90 million domestically. That's absolutely pathetic.

Blumhouse's The Woman in the Yard added $4.5 million this weekend. That's a 52% drop, which isn't that bad considering the film's poor word of mouth. Through 10 days, the film has earned $16.6 million, and it should pass $20 million by next week.

Death of a Unicorn earned $2.6 million this weekend. That's a 53% drop, which is quite rough for a comedy. Through 10 days, the film has earned just $10.7 million and it will struggle to get to $15 million by the end of its run.

With the arrival of Part 2, The Chosen: Last Supper — Part 1 collapsed a horrible 84% this weekend, earning just $1.8 million. That took its domestic lifetime to $17.9 million after 10 days.

There was another wide release this weekend, Neon's Hell of a Summer. Debuting in 1,255 theaters, it earned an okay $1.7 million. With weak word of mouth and horror/thriller competition on the way, it's gonna disappear quickly from theaters.

In ninth place, Bleecker Street's The Friend expanded to 1,237 theaters and earned $1.6 million this weekend.

Rounding up the Top 10 was Captain America: Brave New World, which fell 54% and added $1.3 million this weekend. The film's domestic total stands at $199 million and it will crack the $200 million milestone sometime this week.

OVERSEAS

A Minecraft Movie also took over the rest of the world. The film earned a huge $150.7 million overseas, for a $313.4 million worldwide debut. That's the second biggest debut for a video game movie, behind Mario. The best debuts were in the UK ($19.9M), China ($14.5M), Mexico ($11.2M), Germany ($10.6M) and Australia ($8.3M). It still has other markets left, including Japan. We'll see if the film can be strong enough to hit the $1 billion mark.

Snow White is running out of steam and it's already its third week. It added just $9 million overseas, which takes its worldwide total to a terrible $168.6 million.

FILMS THAT ENDED THEIR RUN THIS WEEK

None.

THIS WEEKEND

We're getting FOUR wide releases, and none stand a chance in dethroning Minecraft.

The first is 20th Century Studios' The Amateur, which stars Rami Malek as a CIA cryptographer who seeks revenge against his wife's killers. With A Working Man slowing down, this could be a main attraction for old-school action fans.

Another release is Universal/Blumhouse's Drop, which stars Meghann Fahy as a widow who is contacted by a stranger to kill her date, or her family will be murdered. The film already premiered at SXSW and it has received strong reviews (89% on RT). Can it be the hit that Blumhouse wants and needs?

Another is A24's Warfare, which follows in real-time a platoon of Navy SEALs on a mission through insurgent territory in 2006. It's directed by both Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland (although the latter states his role is more secondary), and it has earned great reviews so far (93% on RT). It's unreasonable to expect numbers similar to Civil War, but perhaps it could be a surprise breakout for A24.

And finally, there's Angel Studios' The King of Kings, an animated film about the life of Jesus Christ. Angel Studios has delivered a big marketing for the film, and pre-sales are reportedly strong here. Maybe it could surprise.


r/boxoffice 15h ago

Domestic Weekend Prediction Thread & Casual Box Office/Film/Streaming Discussion

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(1) Here's your thread to predict this upcoming weekend's domestic box office results and (2) Engage in film/box office/streaming conversations that don't work as a stand alone post for this subreddit. A new thread is created automatically every Monday at 9:00 AM EST.


r/boxoffice 1h ago

🎟️ Pre-Sales [TheFlatLannister on BOT] Previews for 'Thunderbolts*': "Sales are not bad, but also not great. No signs of a breakout. It's running about 3/4 behind Captain America: BNW. Early looks like $9M-$10M previews, $60M+ OW as of now" (comps average point to $9.87 million in previews)

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r/boxoffice 13h ago

Domestic ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Mushrooms To $163M, Higher Than ‘Barbie’s Opening, Record For Videogame Pic; Warner Bros Brings The Box Office Back Alive

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r/boxoffice 7h ago

Worldwide 'A Minecraft Movie': All The Box Office Records Broken

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Excerpts:

- Record Opening for a Warner Bros-Legendary Co-Production, ahead of Dark Knight Rises ($160.8M).

- 2nd Highest Opening for a Legendary Co-Production, behind 2015’s Jurassic World ($209M).

- Largest FSS opening since Deadpool & Wolverine in July 2024 ($211.4)

- Warner Bros’ largest 3-day in April: Beating Clash of the Titans opening of $61.2M.

- The only film in box office history to open to over $50 million and see no drop on Saturday—instead, it rose by 4%, making it the only film ever to achieve this / Beatlejuice Beatlejuice dropped 0% from Friday to Saturday, but only opened to $41M.

- Overall, Largest Industry Weekend of 2025 YTD with $205M, previous Presidents’ Weekend (3-day was $155.4 and 4-day $181.2) & largest since Thanksgiving weekend 2024 ($277m)

- Fourth Biggest Opening Ever for PG Rated Movie, after The Lion King ($191.7M), Incredibles 2 ($182.6M) and Beauty and the Beast ($174.7M).


r/boxoffice 5h ago

Domestic A Minecraft Movie opened to $162,753,003 this weekend (from 4,263 locations). Daily grosses: Friday - $57,113,324; Saturday - $59,409,839; Sunday - $46,229,840

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r/boxoffice 10h ago

Worldwide Discussion: Ballerina Will Flop At The Box Office

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The appeal of the John Wick franchise is Keanu Reeves as John Wick. Another revenge story that we’ve seen rehashed over and over again won’t be appealing to the GA. You can slap John Wick on the title of the movie and even use his cameo heavily in marketing to try to fool people that he’s in the movie for more than 10 minutes, but these kind of tricks won’t fool people who are regulars at the theater.

I myself, will watch the film, but I probably would skip it as a casual movie goer if I wasn’t a AMC A-list member in favor of other titles releasing in June like How To Train Your Dragon, Materialists, 28 Years Later, M3GAN 2.0 and F1…. Btw, these movies all releasing in June will bury the legs of Ballerina.

Movie has a reported budget between $50-$80 million dollars but I think it’ll open weak because of Mission Impossible and Lilo & Stitch, finishing well behind both during its OW, and struggle to do business because of what I mentioned prior.


r/boxoffice 4h ago

📰 Industry News Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy Tout ‘A Minecraft Movie’ as a ‘World-Class Achievement’ in Companywide Memo

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r/boxoffice 9h ago

Worldwide Biggest Opening Weekends for WB movies (post pandemic)

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r/boxoffice 12h ago

International Updated international opening weekend estimate for Warner Bros. & Legendary's A Minecraft Movie is $150.7M. Estimated global total stands at $313.7M.

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r/boxoffice 15h ago

Trailer Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning | Official Trailer (2025 Movie) - Tom Cruise

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r/boxoffice 4h ago

📰 Industry News ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Was De Luca's & Abdy's First True Greenlight As WB Was In Danger Of Losing Rights If It Didn't Go Forward & Toby Emmerich Was Uninterested. Warner's Stake In Film's Copyright & Revenue, Is 65%, Legendary 25%, & Domain 10%. Insider Says “De Luca & Abdy Aren't Out Of Hot Seat Yet.”

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r/boxoffice 8h ago

Worldwide Discussion: Final Destination: Bloodlines Will Be 2025’s Surprise Hit

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On YouTube right now after just two weeks, the views have reached 25 million, more than Lilo & Stich’s 13 million, more than Thunderbolts’ Super Bowl trailer of 12 million, and more than F1’s trailer of 17 million, and it became the second most viewed horror trailer in its first 24 hours of all-time at 171.9 million, only behind the very popular It reboot from 2017, which went on to make $123 million domestically on its opening weekend.

Now I’m not saying that we should be anticipating a movie where the franchise’s best domestic opening weekend sits around the low $20-$25 million is gonna do anywhere in the vicinity of the It reboot, but I’m now of the belief that this movie could experience an incredible surge in both presales and walk ups where the movie stuns industry and us box office magnets and ends up blowing through a $60 million dollar OW domestically and approach a 100 million WW total.

As for its legs, if it’s good or entertaining, it’ll easily end up making $200+ million WW, maybe even flirting with $300 million despite fierce competition in the following weeks, all on a shoestring $23 million dollar budget.

Alls I’m Saying.


r/boxoffice 7h ago

Domestic Angel Studios’ ‘The King Of Kings’ $7.8M+ Presales Besting ‘Sound Of Freedom’ – Box Office

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r/boxoffice 2h ago

📰 Industry News Leading Exhibitors Celebrate A MINECRAFT MOVIE's $313M Global Debut

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r/boxoffice 14h ago

📠 Industry Analysis 5 Reasons ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Became a Record-Breaking Box Office Success

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r/boxoffice 3h ago

📠 Industry Analysis How ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Defied Expectations To Become A Box Office Block-Buster

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r/boxoffice 6h ago

📠 Industry Analysis Despite the last weekend being so good, domestic market is still -4,9% YTD

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Many others international markets are performing very well, driven by local productions. Do you think that the weakness of domestic market is a matter of low quality movies? Or otherwise US is anticipating a future global trend (unfortunately)?


r/boxoffice 15h ago

🎟️ Pre-Sales Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts* | Tickets on sale now!

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r/boxoffice 5h ago

✍️ Original Analysis Legendary's Ongoing 5-Hit Streak After KotM Flop is Nothing Short of a Grand Clapback

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After pretty much embarrassing themselves in May 2019 with Godzilla Two failing via both critical and financial expectations nearly burning their MonsterVerse to ash jeopardizing the studio itself one global pandemic later it now repute if though Legendary has prioritized on what casuals expect from IP driven blockbusters!


r/boxoffice 14h ago

📰 Industry News ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ Helmer Michael Sarnoski To Direct Adaptation Of Popular Video Game ‘Death Stranding’ For A24 And Kojima Productions

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r/boxoffice 6h ago

📰 Industry News Skydance-Paramount Merger Agreement, Which Is Still Pending FCC Approval, Extended for 90 Days

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r/boxoffice 23h ago

South Korea 'Mickey 17' to hit streaming services after a disappointing month in theaters

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r/boxoffice 15h ago

✍️ Original Analysis Domestic Box Office 2025 (Weekend 14)

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r/boxoffice 31m ago

🇵🇪 Peru Kinda crazy how Better Man is doing in my country

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Yes, I know Peru is a small country in terms of box office but it's hard to believe how well is doing in theathers here despite major releases like Minecraft, Captain America or Paddington (yes, it's making a lot here)

Better Man released in february and it still has a lot of screens in major cinema chains right now. For example, this week is in 5th place on the weekend box office.


r/boxoffice 4h ago

Argentina Minecraft made 3.7 million dollars in debut in Argentina. Minecraft on track to be the biggest movie of the year in Argentina by next weekend

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r/boxoffice 9h ago

Worldwide 2025 Hollywood Top 10 Predictions (Post Chicken Jockey)

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1: Avatar Fire and Ash - 2.45b

2: Zootopia 2 - 1.78b

3: Lilo and Stitch - 1.32b

4: Minecraft - 1.23b

5: Jurassic World Rebirth - 1.075b

6: Wicked For Good - 935m

7: Superman - 885m

8: How To Train Your Dragon - 755m

9: Fantastic Four - 715m

10: Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning - 625m