With five new films hitting theaters, “A Minecraft Movie” remained at the top of the box office after earning an incredible $80 million in its second weekend of release.
Despite its record-breaking $162.7 million premiere, which is an amazing hold for a movie of its size, “A Minecraft Movie” had a 50% fall in ticket sales. The PG video game adaptation from Warner Bros. and Legendary, which stars Jason Momoa and Jack Black, has made $550 million worldwide and $281 million domestic thus far. After ten days in theaters, “Minecraft” has already surpassed Disney and Marvel’s “Captain America: Brave New World” ($199 million domestic, $410 million worldwide) as the year’s highest grossing movie.
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“A Minecraft Movie” has been a tremendous help to the nation’s movie theater operators after 2025 got off to a bad start. According to Comscore, box office receipts two weekends ago were 40% behind 2019 and over 11% behind last year. Although it is still 31% behind 2019, the distance has now narrowed to 0.5% ahead of 2024. In order to continue driving year-to-date earnings ahead of 2024, Hollywood is looking to upcoming films such as Disney’s “Lilo & Stitch” remake, Tom Cruise’s “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning,” Marvel’s “Thunderbolts,” and Ryan Coogler’s R-rated “Sinners.”
“After a very slow March for theaters, ‘A Minecraft Movie’ came like the cavalry,” senior Comscore analyst Paul Dergarabedian said. “This is fantastic news as the summer film season approaches.”
With $19 million from 3,200 theaters, Angel Studios’ animated faith-based family movie “The King of Kings” had the best start among newcomers. Charles Dickens, a young author, narrates the life story of Jesus Christ in “King of Kings,” with Kenneth Branagh, Uma Thurman, Mark Hamill, and Pierce Brosnan leading the voice cast. Audiences were thrilled and gave the film a rare “A+” rating on CinemaScore exit surveys, despite the mixed reviews from movie critics (63% on Rotten Tomatoes). With its “Kids Go Free” campaign, Angel Studios, the religious distribution firm that produced “The Sound of Freedom,” encouraged parents by letting kids watch the film for free when an adult ticket is purchased.
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Brandon Purdie, head of global theatrical distribution at Angel Studio, remarked, “The CinemaScore for ‘The King of Kings’ says it all.” Only 128 movies have received a “A+” CinemaScore. Families want to watch good movies in theaters together. This weekend merely reflects the demand from viewers.
With $15 million from 3,400 theaters, Disney and 20th Century’s vigilante thriller “The Amateur” came in third. The film brought in an additional $17.2 million at the overseas box office, bringing its total worldwide total to $32.2 million. Although those early receipts are greater than anticipated, “The Amateur,” starring Rami Malek, must remain on the big screen to be worth its $60 million production cost. CinemaScore gave the film a “B+” rating from viewers, which can boost word-of-mouth. Malek portrays a CIA analyst in “The Amateur” who tracks out the perpetrators of a terrorist incident that killed his wife. The cast is completed by Laurence Fishburne, Jon Bernthal, and Rachel Brosnahan.
“Warfare,” an action-packed war thriller from A24, opened at number four with $8.3 million from 2,670 North American theaters. The $20 million movie was directed by Iraq War veteran Ray Mendoza and “Civil War” director Alex Garland. The movie, which is based on Mendoza’s experiences as a former Navy SEAL, follows a platoon of soldiers as they go through rebel territory in real time.
Among the new releases this weekend, “Warfare” received the greatest reviews, receiving a 93% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a “A-” on CinemaScore. The ensemble of “Warfare,” which includes D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai (“Reservation Dogs”), Will Poulter (“We’re the Millers”), Cosmo Jarvis (“Shogun”), Joseph Quinn (“A Quiet Place Day One”), Kit Connor (“Heartstopper”), Noah Centineo (“To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before”), Michael Gandolfini (“The Many Saints of Newark”), and Charles Melton (“May December”), was part of the attraction for younger ticket buyers.
With its opening gross of $7.7 million from 3,085 theaters, the horror movie “Drop” from Universal and Blumhouse completed the top five. With $2 million from 47 territories for a $10 million global debut, the film failed overseas. It’s a poor beginning, but since “Drop” only cost $11 million, it doesn’t require a lot of money to turn a profit. “Drop,” which was directed by Christopher Landon of “Freaky,” centers on Violet, a widowed mother (played by Meghann Fahy, star of “The White Lotus”), who gets strange phone messages while she is out on a first date with Henry (Brandon Sklenar from “It Ends With Us”) at a restaurant. The person sending them is evil; they threaten to murder her sister and son unless she kills the man across the dinner table first. Despite receiving good reviews for a horror movie (83% on Rotten Tomatoes), “Drop” only received a mediocre response from viewers (“B” rating on CinemaScore).
“Drop” overindexed in dine-in theaters, but Universal’s head of domestic distribution Jim Orr remarked, “This is a solid opening weekend for a film that has great scores.” “I hope it runs really well.”
With $6.15 million from 2,296 theaters, Fathom Entertainment’s faith-based television series about Jesus and his disciples, “The Chosen: Last Supper – Part 3,” debuted in sixth place. Considering that another religious picture, “King of Kings,” is simultaneously showing in theaters, the returns are respectable and in line with the first two parts’ initial sales. With two-week installments, Fathom is launching its fifth season in theaters; so far, “Part 1” has brought in $20 million, while “Part 2” has brought in $11.3 million.
In other news, Disney’s “Snow White” remake has only made $2.8 million from 2,540 sites, dropping to No. 8 in its fourth weekend of play. The fairy tale adaption is currently the lowest-grossing (by far) of Disney’s live-action remakes, having made $81.9 million domestically and $181 million worldwide. That disgraceful title was previously held by “Dumbo,” which made $114 million in North America and $353 million globally in 2019.
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