We can’t imagine that any exhibitor is complaining about the diversity or the amount of product in the marketplace. With an $80M second weekend, that’s the 16th best second weekend ever for a movie, and the second best second weekend for a videogame movie after Super Mario Bros’ ($92.3M).

“We’re absolutely overjoyed A Minecraft Movie has been so warmly received by audiences around the world and extend our congratulations to Jared Hess and his filmmaking team, Legendary, Vertigo, Mojang and our phenomenal cast led by Jason Momoa, Jack Black, Emma Myers, Sebastian Hansen, Danielle Brooks and Jennifer Coolidge, who helped make the film a must-see event for moviegoers of all ages.

At a time when feature production development executives have their faces in their hands, baffled at what works at the box office, let’s not deny the attraction of the tried and true meat and potatoes dude action movie, which can still find an audience.

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Disney has been put through the ringer before on controversial theatrical releases –i.e. Solo: A Star Wars Story and its swapping of directors from Lord & Miller to Ron Howard, which deep-sixed that movie to a very less than $1 billion global take of $393M worldwide.

Current estimates show that this weekend is in fact the lowest grossing at the domestic box office year-to-date with around $54.7M for all films, lower than Super Bowl Weekend ($55.8M). How is that possible during a spring break with kids off?

Warner Bros. decided to take a big swing on his next outing at a higher budget level. Unfortunately for stakeholders, the result isn’t going to cut it profit-wise, given the original sci-fi film’s $118M cost (not counting P&A). That’s the conventional P&L outlook from the studio perspective, anyway.

2025 has clicked past $1.08 billion (in fact it did last weekend), +11% over the same Jan. 1-March 2 frame a year ago, but this weekend is now coming in at $53.3M per Comscore, which would make it the lowest frame of the year to date, under Super Bowl

The real story of the weekend was Neon‘s The Monkey with a C+ CinemaScore (same as Oz Perkins’ Longlegs) and a 2 1/2 star PostTrak which notched a $14.2M opening, the second best for the distrib behind last July’s Longlegs ($22.4M) also from Perkins.

While Natalia tells powerful stories, her husband, Judge Pythias “Pete” Temesgen, serves the Columbus community in the courtroom. Together, the Temesgens embody a commitment to public service and cultural enrichment. They reside in Columbus with their two children, Aria and Paul, continuing to shape the city through their contributions to the arts and justice system.