In early April 2025, A Minecraft Movie overtook Greta Gerwig’s Barbie in terms of opening weekend box office sales. By some estimates, the popular game has over 200 million active players worldwide.

With over $550 million in global box office sales, here's how 'A Minecraft Movie' has struck gold with audiences.

The world of Minecraft is massive with unique landscapes, structures, and mobs. However, Mojang has made exploration easy by dividing up the map into different biomes. These biomes are classified ...

The video- game adaptation succeeded at both things cinema struggles to do consistently: sell gobs of tickets and get young ...

They can explore massive biomes, go to other dimensions ... X user @Froggenthusias1 made meme history by posting a tweet that read: “Minecraft proves that abolishing child labour was a mistake.

A Minecraft Movie-- starring Jack Black and Jason Momoa-- seems like goofy fun (full disclosure: I haven't seen it yet). But there's one scene in particular that has taken on a life of its own, and we ...

Unofficially, it’s the crowning of cinema’s meme era. Fueled by a barrage of inside jokes shared by the masses who play Minecraft or at least live online, the movie succeeded at what Hollywood ...