The Big Screen Adaptation Game Mega-Franchise Minecraft brings $ 58 million on Friday, put this passage for a $ 135 million open weekend at home – or maybe more.

That will give “a movie MineCraft” The biggest opening of the year, beating “Captain America’s February) and Comscore’s needy estimated at 2025 at the domestic box office Down 7% year-over-yearand that is at the top of the essential declarations from the pre-pandemic period.

Arrive: Video games, especially child-friendly games, which will soon be eclipse comics as the most reliable template for Hollywood Blockbusters. “Super Mario Brothers Movie” is one of the biggest hit 2023 (just behind “Barbie”), and “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” A Great Success of new winter holidays.

Minecraft game, Marcus first developed “notch” persson and got to Microsoft In 2014, there were many audience, with 204 million monthly active users in December. But it also gained specific challenges, because it offered players a virtual sandbox, instead of a specific story or set of characters to adapt.

Ruled by Jared Hess (best known “Napoleon Dynamita”), with six credited screenwriters“A minecraft movie” meets these challenges by bringing human characters (played by Jason Momoa, Jack Black, and others) in a great opening in fantasy style. The movie was received Mixed reviews – But then, so did the movie Super Mario Brothers

The “a large weekend of Minecraft” a string of flops including “The Alto Knights” and “Jerk: Folie is a Deux.” So maybe it’s safe to think we can see a sequence.