Battle at the Box Office 4/7/25
Minecraft fans came out in full force this weekend, driving A Minecraft Movie to the biggest opening ever for a video game adaptation and one of the biggest domestic weekends ever.
A Minecraft Movie opened to a massive $163 million. That’s $17 million higher than the previous champ for video game adaptations, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, and the fourth biggest opening ever for a PG-rated film. It was also the sixth highest weekend ever for a non-sequel film, topping fellow Warner Bros. film Barbie. It’s the second-highest-grossing film of 2025 and should easily outpace Captain America: Brave New World to take the number one spot. Worldwide, the movie has grossed over $313 million. The movie got a B+ CinemaScore, which may hurt word of mouth going into this coming weekend, and we’ll have to see if the film is heavily front-loaded or if it will have longer legs.
In a distant second was A Working Man, which dropped 53% in its second weekend and made another $7.2 million. The movie has grossed $27.8 million domestically and $45.5 million worldwide so far, and it’s grossing about $1 million behind The Beekeeper in each comparable weekend so far.
The Chosen: The Last Supper Part 2, the second in Fathom Events’ massive Easter event, took third place with $6.9 million over the weekend. That’s down from Part 1, which opened to $11.8 two weeks ago and is the highest opening entry in the Chosen series of special events. Part 3 opens this coming weekend.
Snow White continues to crater, dropping to fourth place and falling 59% from last weekend. With another $5.9 million, it has reached $77.3 million domestic and $168 million worldwide. Analysts predict Disney will lose around $115 million from this box office bomb.
The Woman in the Yard rounded out the top 5 with another $4.5 million. It dropped 52% from last weekend’s opening and has $16.6 million domestically.
Further down the list, Hell of a Summer opened in 8th place with $1.7 million in 1,255 theaters, and The Friend expanded wide and took 9th place with $1.6 million in 1,237 theaters.
A Minecraft Movie also had the best per-theater average of the weekend, making $38,236 in each of the 4,263 theaters it played in.
