A Minecraft Movie Is The Biggest Hollywood Movie Of The Year With Over $800 Million

Another weekend and another strong showing for A Minecraft Movie at the worldwide box office, as the Warner Bros. film has now topped $800 million. That makes the video game adaptation the biggest Hollywood movie of the year so far, and it’s not particularly close. Captain America: A Brave New World sits in second place with $414.8 million, according to BoxOfficeMojo.

Variety reports A Minecraft Movie pulled in $22.7 million domestically over the weekend, good enough for fourth place. Keep in mind, though, this was the video game film’s fourth weekend at the box office. It also wasn’t the only video game adaptation at theaters: Until Dawn debuted by raking in $18 million worldwide.

Globally, A Minecraft Movie now sits at $816.5 million, per BoxOfficeMojo, so $1 billion still seems in play. For instance, just a week ago the Jack Black-starring flick surged past $700 million. That said, Marvel’s The Thunderbolts arrives later this week, bringing big competition to theaters.

Earlier this month, A Minecraft Movie became the No. 2 highest-grossing video game film of all time. It sped past Sonic the Hedgehog 3’s global haul of $462.5 million, though seems unlikely to jump over The Super Mario Bros. Movie’s worldwide total of $1.36 billion.

Warner Bros. movie boss Jesse Ehrman recently chatted about a likely sequel for A Minecraft Movie as well as the unexpected chicken jockey craze. In fact, a disclaimer started appearing before the film at theaters to stop audience members from throwing popcorn and disrupting others.

For more, check out GameSpot’s A Minecraft Movie review.