Video Games Like Minecraft Are Replacing Superheroes As Hollywood’s Dominant IP
Due to Chicken Jockey’s rapid popularity (surrounded by numerous Minecraft Movie memes like “50 Steves in Times Square”), the Warner Bros. children’s comedy-thriller unexpectedly became a global box office hit. Over the weekend, it made $163 million domestically and $313.7 million worldwide. Despite a Tomatometer score of only 48%, its earnings surpassed even the most optimistic predictions, which projected a North American total between $70 million and $90 million. In terms of overall financial success: This is the largest opening of the year, the highest three-day total for a video game movie ever, and Warner Bros., the distributor of Minecraft, achieved its third most profitable opening of all time with this film.