Moviegoers ‘digging’ Minecraft Movie – Jamaica Observer

LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — A Minecraft Film simply held on to the highest spot in North American cinemas this weekend with estimated ticket gross sales of a stable US$80.6 million, analysts mentioned Sunday.

That was roughly half the full of its enormous opening final weekend. However with US$281 million in home ticket gross sales to this point, together with US$269 million internationally, Minecraft has set information in its brief run.

The Warner Bros./Legendary PG movie, starring Jack Black and Jason Momoa, ranks as essentially the most profitable movie adaptation from a online game.

The movie’s enormous recognition helped put the film business’s general field workplace efficiency on a par with the identical interval final yr, Hollywood Reporter mentioned.

4 new releases got here in far behind: The King of Kings,” an animation that has a younger Charles Dickens narrating the story of Jesus, positioned second at an estimated US$19.1 million throughout its strategic launch per week earlier than Easter, business watcher Exhibitor Relations reported.

In third place was Disney and twentieth Century’s thriller The Newbie at US$15 million.

Fight thriller Warfare from A24 positioned fourth at US$8.3 million.

And in fifth place was Common and Blumhouse’s horror movie Drop at US$7.5 million.