A Minecraft Movie Crosses $550 Million Global Box Office

Updated: The Chicken Jockey has galloped past the half-century mark at the global box office, with A Minecraft Movie at an estimated $550.6M worldwide through today. Of that, $269.6M is from overseas.

During the sophomore session, the Warner Bros/Legendary hit added $79.6M from 76 international box office markets for a -42% hold excluding China. Despite the current geopolitical discord, the movie was No. 1 in that market on both Saturday and Sunday, and is in a tight race with a local title for the weekend win.  

Overall overseas, the Jason Momoa/Jack Black-starrer is tracking strongly above comps in like-for-like markets at today’s rates. Examples include Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (+229%), Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (+76%), Sonic 3 (+75%), Pokemon: Detective Pikachu (+71%), Kung Fu Panda 4 (+61%) and Jumanji: The Next Level (+40%). 

The Top 5 markets so far are the UK ($39.8M), China ($20.3M), Germany ($18.9M), Mexico ($18.7M) and Australia ($18.5M). The Imax cume is $26.6M global including $9.6M from international.

Kids holidays are up and running in many offshore markets and will continue through Easter, boding well for midweek play. Japan and Korea are also still to release, at the end of the month.

We’ll dig into more Minecraft detail below.

The new wide opener this frame was 20th Century/Disney’s The Amateur with $17.2M from 52 material overseas markets where it opened day-and-date with domestic. The global launch is $32.2M, slightly above projections. The Rami Malek-starrer was No. 2 in most offshore plays, behind Minecraft. The best performances for the spy thriller were in Europe and Latin America. Imax grossed $2.4M global.

From director James Hawes, the globetrotting movie was No. 2 non-local in all European majors including France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK. The opening weekend was 8% ahead of The Accountant regionally in like-for-likes at current rates.

Across Latin America, it debuted at No. 2 in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Uruguay. The bow was 27% ahead of Argylle and 23% over The Creator regionally in like-for-likes at today’s rates.

In Asia-Pacific, The Amateur opened at No. 1 in Japan (which loved Malek-starrer Bohemian Rhapsody), No. 1 (non-local) in Korea and No. 2 (non-local) in Australia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India, New Zealand, Thailand, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam. The frame came in 16% below The Accountant regionally, though Japan and Korea were both above that film.

The Top 5 openers were France ($1.6M), UK ($1.4M), Mexico ($1.4M), Germany ($1.1M) and Japan ($1.1M). Skewing to the adult demo, there’s some runway ahead for the movie with that audience tending not to rush out opening weekend.

Digging back into Minecraft, it added Indonesia this session with $1.3M, roughly on par with Sonic 1 and 3, 11% over Inside Out 2 and 156% bigger than Sonic 2. 

On a regional basis, Europe had a strong -41% hold from opening weekend. Speaking to the family reach of the film, the sophomore Saturday was generally above expectations. The often fast-burn Middle East region is holding very well, now at a collective $10M through Sunday. In Latin America, Minecraft continues to dominate with a 69% share of the Top 5 films and a solid -47% hold from opening weekend at No. 1 in all markets. In Asia-Pacific, the 2^nd weekend drop was just 37%. In China, it’s the top import of the year and is No. 7 overall for 2025, behind the six Chinese New Year titles.

MISC UPDATED CUMES/NOTABLE
A Working Man (AMZ/WB/BB): $5.4M intl weekend (71 markets); $45.5M intl cume of which $23M is from WB/$79M global
Snow White (DIS): $4.7M intl weekend (51 markets); $99.7M intl cume/$181.6M global
*Drop (UNI): $2.5M intl weekend (47 markets); $2.5M intl cume/$10M global
Dog Man (UNI): $2M intl weekend (68 markets); $39.1M intl cume/$137M global
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (UNI): $691K intl weekend (76 markets); $125.5M intl cume
Novocaine (PAR): $560K intl weekend (72 markets); $13.7M intl cume/$33.5M global
*Denotes new