‘A Minecraft Movie’ Becomes 2025 Box Office’s Top Grossing Movie After $80.6 Million 2nd Weekend

While a franchise title still leads the box office with Warner Bros./Legendary’s “A Minecraft Movie” continuing its excellent run, a quartet of new releases is filling out the rest of the top 5, and none of them are sequels.

“Minecraft” is proving that it is not a frontloaded title at all with an $80.6 million second weekend, a total that was considered to be an optimistic outcome for its opening weekend in initial pre-release projections. But with millions of younger moviegoers excited to see the film thanks to memes and viral videos taken in theaters, it is proving to be the spring hit that theaters were starving for in March.

Overseas grosses are just as strong with $79.6 million, giving “Minecraft” a $269.6 million overseas total led by $39.8 million from the UK. Combined with $281 million from domestic theaters, the film has a running total of $550 million and is on pace to become Warner’s eighth $1 billion hit.

In second is Angel Studios/Mofac Animation’s “The King of Kings,” an animated retelling of the Gospel stories that is bringing in Christian families to the tune of a $19 million opening weekend. That nearly matches the $19.6 million opening of Angel’s breakthrough 2023 hit, “Sound of Freedom.”

While it may be a tall order for “The King of Kings” to match the historic legs of “Sound of Freedom,” it should continue to get strong turnouts all the way through Easter next weekend with extra help from the “Pay It Forward” model that “Sound of Freedom” used to great effect. Like most faith-based films, “The King of Kings” has earned an A+ on CinemaScore, though what’s noteworthy is that it is now only the fifth non-Disney/Pixar animated title to earn such a grade.

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