The world’s best -selling video game is also the film based on a video game with the best premiere of history: the collection of the first weekend of a Minecraft movie has not only made it a resounding success, but right now is the film that has most raised in what we have been in 2025. Because, perhaps, overcoming the new version of Snow White was not a challenge. However, the way in which Super Mario Bros. deserves nuances.
The first thing is the first and let’s go with the figures ahead: according to media like Variety, the Warner film based on the millionaire Xbox franchise has already raised the thunderous figure of 301 million dollars worldwide. Breaking in two blocks we have a box office of 157 million dollars in the United States and 144 million in the rest of the countries where they are already on the billboards, including Spain. To put it in perspective, among the premieres of 2025 the only film capable of comparing itself to a Minecraft movie has been Captain America: Brave New World.
The next question is asked alone: how is a Minecraft movie in front of Super Mario Bros: The movie? Here are two measured rods:
- On the one hand, and despite the fact that in the United States both films started extremely strong (any study would sign the 58 million dollars with which both debuted in the United States) has to take into account that the collection count in the case of Nintendo Superstar began to count from a Wednesday, a more complicated day.
- But, even in those, what was achieved by Super Mario Bros: The movie For the first Sunday after its premiere were 204 million dollars. Said in another way: A Minecraft movie He achieved an advantage of almost 100 million difference in less days.
What collected more in a premiere makes it a better movie? Not necessarily. The dates on which both are premiered are more or less similar, but we return to those times when there is a deep division between cinephile criticism and fans of the original video game, which have encountered lots of winks and that entertainment for which they paid to see. And this goes for both films. However, one thing is clear: the more you hit the fan, More box office will achieve.
Special mention to the case of Jack Blackwho has participated as the protagonist and antagonist in both films and even eclipsed Mario himself with his bowser. getting a Borderlands in which, we are not going to deny it, it was among the little rescued of that project.
From here an note: although a Minecraft movie has already taken from Super Mario Bros: The movie Two milestones, this in the end is a background race. At present, the trend is that there is a collapse in the sale of tickets after the second weekend except for very specific exceptions, which will be the real fire test for the initiative. However, one thing is clear: Minecraft’s phenomenon is not a passing fad and although it has taken more than a decade to take it to take it to the cinema, The movement has managed to work.
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