Bloomberg – A Minecraft movieby Warner Bros. Discovery Inc (WBD) based on the homonymous video game, this weekend was released as number 1 of US and Canadian cinemas, marking the biggest debut of a film this year.
The film, co -produced by Legendary Entertainment, obtained sales during the weekend of US $ 157 millionaccording to Warner Bros. this Sunday in a statement, far exceeding the forecast of the industry tracker Box Office Pro between US $ 85 million and US $ 100 million. The film raised additional US $ 144 million in cinemas internationally.
Estimates for the film shot last week based on advanced ticket purchase data. The real action and fantasy comedy stars Jack Black and Jason Momoa as misfit in a cubic world based on the game.
The opening is good news for national cinemas, which had seen the sale of tickets 11% before the beginning of the weekend. It is also a successful success for Warner Bros., Michael de Luca and Pamela Abdy film leaders, who have been subjected to scrutiny for waste in titles with uncertain commercial perspectives. It was developed by his predecessor Toby Emmerich and led by Warner Bros. Production Chief, Jesse Ehrman, as well as by Legendary’s creative team.
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“When we arrived at the studio, I was like languishing in the background, and we recognized that it should accelerate and become something that could be a great success,” De Luca said in a joint interview with Abdy this Sunday. Abdy said he had received Tiktok clips from children and parents dancing the movie’s scenes in theaters. The movie “is really cheerful, and in a world full of anxiety, it is something that can be shared with people of all ages”Said De Luca.
Legendary, who has a distribution agreement with Warner Bros., also produced Dune: Part 2 and Godzilla X Kong: The new empirewhich became the highest grossing premieres of Warner Bros of 2024 with a combined collection of US $ 1,290 million worldwide.
“When Toby and Jesse de Warner Bros sent this to Legendary in 2019, we knew it was a huge intellectual property that should be explained and became accessible,” said Legendary CEO, Josh Grode, in a statement. Ehrman and the head of Legendary production, Mary Parent, “developed a film that honors fans while still being accessible to the general public”said Grode.
Although it only obtained 49% of the score of critics in the Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, The best -selling game fans promoted tickets. The premiere surpassed Captain America: A New Worldby Marvel Studios, by Walt Disney CO (DIS), becoming the highest grossing premiere of the year. A series of recent successes based on video games continue, such as the movie of Super Mario Bros last year and Sonic 3.
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The next premiere of Warner Bros is the vampire film Fishermen (SINNERS)by Ryan Cooglerdirector of Black Panther and Creed. The film, which opens in cinemas on April 18, is one of the key bets in original titles associated with De Luca and Abdy, next to The bride! by Maggie Gyllenhaal and One battle after another by Paul Thomas Anderson.
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