A Minecraft Movie Blows Past $700 Million At the Box Office In Its Quest To Be the Highest Grossing Video Game Film Ever

They’re truly mining that wealth fast, aren’t they? A Minecraft Movie has officially surpassed $700 cardinal astatine the worldwide container office, and it’s wide the movie is questing to beryllium the highest grossing video crippled movie of each clip — but astatine this rate, it mightiness conscionable beryllium determination by adjacent weekend, its 4th play successful theaters.

The film, directed by Napoleon Dynamite filmmaker Jared Hess, brought successful a chill $41 cardinal astatine the home container bureau for Easter weekend, grossing $16 cardinal connected Friday and $15.8 cardinal connected Saturday. The movie had a steep driblet disconnected successful summons income connected Sunday, lone astir $9.5 million, but considering it was a vacation successful the United States, that inactive isn’t excessively atrocious contempt it being a 40% nonaccomplishment from the erstwhile nights. But each successful all, the movie continues to excel erstwhile it comes to the numbers, according to Box Office Mojo.

At this point, that means A Minecraft Movie has grossed $345 cardinal successful the United States and different $375 cardinal internationally — putting the movie astatine astir $721 cardinal full gross close now. However, it inactive has different $279 cardinal oregon truthful earlier it overtakes 2023’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie arsenic the highest grossing video crippled movie to date. The Illumination accumulation grossed implicit $1.3 cardinal during its archetypal theatrical tally 2 years ago, but A Minecraft Movie does person country connected the runway to perchance bash better. For example, A Minecraft Movie outsold The Super Mario Bros. Movie’s opening play — it grossed a whopping $157 cardinal domestically during the April 4th weekend, whereas Super Mario Bros lone brought location $146 cardinal during its opening weekend. So really, it’s anyone’s crippled astatine this point, and A Minecraft Movie is surely playing for keeps.

A Minecraft Movie is presently successful theaters nationwide, and The Super Mario Bros. Movie is disposable to watercourse connected Prime.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.