411 Box Office Report: A Minecraft Movie Reigns For Second Weekend With $80 Million

It was a second weekend atop the box office for A Minecraft Movie, which held on very well to dominate despite a host of new releases. The video game adaptation took in $80.6 million in its second frame, holding 50% from last weekend’s $162.8 million start. That’s a fantastic hold for a film that massively overperformed in its launch and makes it the highest domestic grosser of 2025 already.

Clearly, Minecraft is resonating with audiences. It scored the all-time second best second weekend for a video game movie, behind only The Super Mario Bros Movie’s $92.3 million and has a long way to go. It is also a massive hit overseas and has totaled $550.6 million worldwide, already a huge profit maker for Warner Bros. against a $150 million budget. Its domestic endgame is likely to be well over $400 million and even has a shot at hitting the half-billion mark when it’s all said and done.

While Minecraft dominated, there was still plenty of money for the new releases and that was exemplified by The King of Kings. The animated faith-based film inspired by the children’s book The Life of Our Lord tallied up $19.1 million, well above the expected $15 million coming into the weekend. The film tops 1998’s The Prince of Egypt as the best animated biblical film opening of all-time.

The faith-based movie crowd has been eating well over the past month with the three-part The Chosen: Last Supper releases (more on that in a bit), but King of Kings dwarfed them all. It’s a nice comeback for Angel Studios, who have struggled a bit to find their next The Sound Of Freedom over the last couple of years. King of Kings’ opening nearly put it at their second-best total domestic gross of all-time behind Sound of Freedom; as it stands, it’s just a hair’s breadth away from topping the total grosses of December’s Homestead ($20.8 million) and March 2024’s Cabrini ($19.5 million).

King of Kings, which tells the story of Jesus through Charles Dickens, is obviously taking advantage of the Easter holiday next weekend. But it also had a groundswell of support boosted by Angel’s canny marketing tactic: a “Kids Go Free” promotion that allowed a free kid’s ticket with each adult ticket buy. But this isn’t just marketing success; the film is doing fairly well for the genre with a 67% RT aggregated average among critics and an A+ CinemaScore.

King of Kings will likely do well next weekend for the holiday and at that point, all bets are off. The positive word of mouth suggests it may continue to hold on – not an unprecedented notion for the genre by any stretch – or it could find the limits of its targeted demographic. Either way, this film should be able to at least top $50 million and possibly more. As is typical with Angel Studios, we don’t know the budget here but it’s going to make money.

The Amateur’s prospects are not as clear, despite opening slightly better than expected. 20th Century Studios’ action-thriller grossed $15 million for the weekend, a solid enough start for the modestly marketed film starring Rami Malek. The flick was expected to perform in the low teens so the studio is likely a bit relieved there.

The Amateur came into the weekend with signs toward potential success. The RT critic aggregate isn’t great but is still fresh at 60%, and the word of mouth is decent at a B+ CinemaScore and 88% RT audience rating. It posted solid holds throughout the weekend and has added $17.2 million overseas for a $32.2 million worldwide start.

The problem that 20th Century has here is similar to the recent Focus Features spy thriller Black Bag: budget. In fact, that problem is identical because both films cost $60 million to produce. Amateur is off to a much better start (Black Bag started with just $7.6 million) but even if the newer film follows Black Bag’s trajectory it would only make it to around $45 million in the states and that won’t be enough for profit during its theatrical run. The competition is boding well with The Accountant 2 and Thunderbolts* coming up, so the studio will probably lose a bit of money here unless it holds on better than expected.

A24’s Warfare flew under the radar in its opening frame, with the Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza-directed film starting at $8.3 million. That’s at the low end of where it was expected to do. The Iraq War-set drama was simply no match for the higher-profile releases and was a far sight from Garland’s Civil War, which opened to $25.5 million in the same weekend last year.

In fairness to Warfare, it was never intended to do the numbers of Civil War and A24 knew that; this is a film that will make its money on home video, as the studio tends to aim for. The film scored very well with both critics (92% on RT) and audiences (A- CinemaScore and a 92% RT audience rating), both of which will help the film out. But it’s not going to be profitable in theaters considering the $20 million budget. Count on this one to get around $20 million domestically (no international numbers yet), which will be enough for the studio’s hopes.

Christopher Landon’s tech thriller Drop opened at #5 with $7.5 million, slightly below the $8 million to $10 million that was expected of it. Again, too much counter-programming this weekend hurt some of these films and even a well-reviewed (82% on RT) and well-liked (B CinemaScore, 82% RT audience rating) film wasn’t going to be able to break through. The opening is a bit below fellow 2025 Blumhouse productions The Woman In The Yard ($9.4 million last month) and Wolf Man ($10.9 million in January).

While that doesn’t sound great, Drop will be fine overall. It cost just $11 million and still has several markets to open in overseas; it brought $2.5 million in internationally this frame for a $10 million worldwide total. Following the pattern of 2025’s lower-budget genre fare, it should be able to make it to $20 million domestically and probably breakeven when international is factored in. Agan, digital revenue will ultimately push this into profit.

The Chosen: Last Supper’s third and final theatrical part found itself a bit run over by The King of Kings and opened to $5.8 million. That’s below the starts of Part One ($11.8 million) and Part Two ($7 million), each of which was released over the past couple weeks. But while it’s below those, it’s still above the two later parts of The Chosen: Season 4 which opened in the mid-$3 million range. As we’ve said, the Chosen theatrical releases are just an additional source of revenue for this TV series, so it’s all good for Fathom Events.

Jason Statham’s A Working Man was pushed all the way to #7 by the glut of new releases. The action thriller brought in $3.1 million, down 58% against all the competition, and now has $33.5 million domestically and $59.7 million against a $40 million budget. It seems likely to close out around $40 million in the US and the continued international numbers will determine if it’s profitable before digital.

Snow White was down 53% in its fourth weekend to $2.8 million. The much-lambasted live-action adaptation now has $81.9 million domestically and $181.6 million worldwide against a $270 million budget. As we’ve said before, this will be a bomb for the studio and will close out close to $90 million stateside.

The Woman in the Yard was down 54% in its third weekend to $2.1. The Blumhouse and Universal film has grossed $20.4 million stateside and $21 million worldwide, solidly enough against a $12.5 million production budget, and will end its run at $25 million domestically.

We had one more new film in the top 10 as the Tamil-language Indian action comedy Good Bad Ugly brought in $812,000. That’s solid enough considering the amount of competition it had. It has totaled $13.5 million worldwide and, as typical of Indian cinema, will probably be frontloaded as the US gross is generally just icing on the cake.

Next weekend will see a battle at the top between A Minecraft Movie, which will seek to hold onto its crown, and Sinners. The Ryan Coogler-directed horror film is aiming for a $30 million to $35 million gross and will likely be a runner-up unless it overperforms – which is very possible considering the positive buzz it’s getting.

BOX OFFICE TOP TEN (Three-Day Domestic Numbers)
1. A Minecraft Movie – $80.6 million ($281 million total, $550.6 million WW)
2. The King of Kings – $19.1 million ($19.1 million total, $19.1 million WW)
3. The Amateur – $15 million ($15 million total, $32.2 million WW)
4. Warfare – $8.3 million ($8.3 million total, $8.3 million WW)
5. Drop – $7.5 million ($7.5 million total, $10 million WW)
6. The Chosen: Last Supper Part 3 – $5.8 million ($5.8 million total, $5.8 million WW)
7. A Working Man – $3.1 million ($33.5 million total, $59.7 million WW)
8. Snow White – $2.8 million ($81.9 million total, $181.6 million WW)
9. The Woman in the Yard – $2.1 million ($20.4 million total, $21 million WW)
10. Good Bad Ugly – $812,000 ($812,000 total, $13.5 million WW)