Hollywood’s first hit of 2025 arrived on April 4 with A Minecraft Movie, a blockbuster adaptation of the block-building video game.
The film took more than $US300 million ($470 million) at the global box office in its opening weekend, putting it on a similar trajectory to The Super Mario Bros Movie, which went on to make nearly $US1.4 billion and become the second-most successful film of 2023. For cinema operators, whose overall takings last year were 30 per cent below their pre-pandemic peak, the hit comes not a moment too soon.
