'A Minecraft Movie' is looking promising! The kid-friendly movie adaptation of the popular video game is tracking to open to $58 million or so in its North American debut over the April 4-6 weekend. It's been a long journey for the video game adaptation as Hollywood has long wanted to make a Minecraft film, and even this one faced multiple delays due to the pandemic and subsequent labor strikes.
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00:00A wonderland where anything you can imagine is possible.
00:05As long as what you imagine can be built out of blocks.
00:10A Minecraft movie is looking promising.
00:12The kid-friendly movie adaptation of the popular video game
00:15is tracking to open to $58 million or so in its North American debut
00:19over the April 4th through 6th weekend.
00:22It's been a long journey for the adaptation
00:24as Hollywood has long wanted to make a Minecraft film.
00:27And even this one faced multiple delays due to the pandemic
00:30and subsequent labor strikes.
00:32This is good news for Warner Brothers co-movie chiefs
00:34Mike DeLuca and Pam Abbey.
00:36Minecraft is the first movie they made from start to finish
00:39along with the upcoming Ryan Coogler vampire movie Sinners.
00:43Featuring an ensemble cast that includes Jack Black and Jason Momoa
00:47the live-action film follows a group of misfit humans
00:50who are transported into the world of the popular video game
00:53and must learn to survive.
00:57There are dark forces who want to destroy this world.
01:00According to tracking data a Minecraft movie is drawing key interest
01:04among teenage boys and girls and is also doing well with young adults.
01:08The data shows Minecraft drumming up nearly the same sort of interest
01:11as Paramount's first Sonic the Hedgehog.
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