The medium of video games is, although it does not seem like it, really complex, and especially very different from other entertainment media such as cinema or television. For years they have tried to make various crossed adaptations, but they have rarely resulted in as expected, precisely because of the natural nature of both means. Even so, There are certain pearls that have been surprisingly successfulbecoming true successes at the box office, such as ‘Super Mario Bros: the film’, 2023.
This precisely stood like The film based on a higher boxwide in historywith a collection of more than 1.3 million dollars worldwide. Unfortunately for some and to the joy of others, this has placed this film based on the Nintendo character as a really difficult standard to match or overcome.
The funny thing is that now A really capable competitor has appeareddespite what many murmured about her.
Appears A Minecraft movie
The first trailers of ‘A Minecraft movie’ They already managed to lift a lot of stir among usersthanks especially to an approach and visual effects that failed to convince many, and later these bad expectations seemed to be confirmed, and the critics did not end up very happy after seeing it. Luckily for her, The opinion among the spectators has been much more dividedwith a lot of people who have loved her, while others have pointed out as one of the worst premieres of what we have been from year.
The surprise for many will probably arrive when they have seen the data of the world box office, and is that according to the data of Box Office Mojo, ‘A Minecraft movie’ has exceeded 700 million at the world box officethus unseating other heavyweights of video game adaptations to the cinema, such as Sonic’s films, ‘Pokémon: Detective Pikachu’ and many others.
Thanks to these numbers, it becomes, less than a month after its premiere in movie theaters, in the second film based on a higher boxing video game in history, only surpassed by the 1.3 million dollars that ‘Super Mario Bros managed to raise: the movie’. Unfortunately, and although There is still a small possibility that this happensit is highly unlikely that ‘a Minecraft film’ manages to overcome this astronomical figure, which places the yellow plumber on a pedestal.
Why has it been a success?
‘Minecraft’ is the game that has been sold most in history, thanks to a large extent to the push so great that the content creators gave in their initial moments. This is why we can precisely say that it was clear that the video game based would be a success, especially counting with great draft stars in society, such as Jack Black and Jason Momoabut it seemed that the criticisms that I was receiving, both from the specialized press and by the public could reduce the film’s box office performance.
Even so, as we said, it has been a success. These 700 million dollars not only place it as the second film based on a more successful video gamebut at the same time it manages to place itself as one of the highest grossing films than it goes from 2025, only surpassed by the Chinese phenomenon ‘Ne Zha 2’.
Precisely this happens in a year full of great premieres that we all expect, such as ‘Superman’ of DC and ‘The Fantastic Four: first steps’ by Marvel, or ‘Ballerina’ and the third part of Avatar. All these films are scheduled for the remainder of the present year 2025, and They all promise to become immediate successes at the box office.
