A Minecraft Movie has pᴀssed a major box office milestone that sees it climbing Warner Bros.’ all-time domestic chart. The video game adaptation, which was directed by Jared Hess, features a star-studded cast that includes Jason Momoa, Jack Black, Danielle Brooks, and Jennifer Coolidge. The Minecraft Movie release kicked off with a $162.7 million debut that saw it earn the best opening weekend of the year so far (also the best ever for a video game movie), and its gross has quickly climbed past the $700 million milestone worldwide, potentially racing toward $1 billion.

Per ᴅᴇᴀᴅline, as of Saturday morning, A Minecraft Movie is projected to earn a 3-day total of $20 million at the domestic box office by the end of its fourth weekend. This brings its cumulative domestic total to $377.2 million. In addition to seeing the movie cross the $375 million domestic milestone, this total will also make it climb another spot up the chart of the best-performing Warner Bros. movies of all time at the domestic box office (as seen on The Numbers), surpᴀssing the $369.6 million earned by the 2022 DC movie The Batman to hit No. 6.

What This Means For A Minecraft Movie

It Has Outgrossed Huge Warner Bros. Hits

By hitting this major domestic milestone, the Minecraft Movie box office has already surpᴀssed the totals of major Warner Bros. hits such as 2019’s Joker ($335.4 million domestic), 2018’s Aquaman ($335.1 million), 2017’s It ($323.8 million), 2001’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone ($317.9 million), and 2010’s Inception ($293.7 million). There is also a possibility that it could continue to climb up the chart. Below, see a breakdown of the five Warner Bros. movies that are ahead of it on the domestic chart, three of which are DC superhero movies:

It ultimately seems unlikely that A Minecraft Movie will be able to outgross the 2023 smash hit Barbie, which earned more than one-and-a-half times the new movie’s current gross at the domestic box office. However, the video game movie will quite easily break into the Top 5, as it only needs to gross an additional $4.9 million to surpᴀss the final Harry Potter movie. How much farther it climbs ultimately depends on how it weathers its upcoming blockbuster compeтιтion, which includes major May releases such as Marvel’s Thunderbolts*, the live-action Lilo & Sтιтch, and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.

Our Take On The Minecraft Movie Milestone

It’s Already A Bona Fide Hit

Its place in Warner Bros. history will continue to become greater, but even if it didn’t make a single cent more after its fourth weekend, the video game movie could be considered a sterling success. The reported budget of A Minecraft Movie is a substantial $150 million. However, that price tag most likely gave it a break-even point of $375 million, a total it has already reached at the domestic box office alone. This cements it as a major return on investment in addition to being the second highest-grossing movie of the year so far worldwide.

Source: ᴅᴇᴀᴅline & The Numbers