A Minecraft Movie Surpasses $700 Million at the Global Box Office - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 21 April 2025 / 4,790 Views

A Minecraft Movie in its opening weekend shattered expectations earning over $300 million and topped $550 million at the global box office through two weekends.

Through three weekends the movie has surpassed $700 million at the global box office for a current total of $717.83 million.

A Minecraft Movie is now the second highest grossing video game based movie of all time trailing only The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which grossed $1.36 billion.

A Minecraft Movie had a production budget of $150 million before you add marketing costs. A movie usually needs to earn 2-2.5 times the production budget to break even at the box office.

Minecraft is the best-selling video game of all-time with over 300 million units sold as of October 2023.

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9 Comments

JRPGfan (on 22 April 2025)

Disney looking at Snow White sitting at like 150m, thinking what happen? how did a Minecraft movie overtake us?

2zosteven (on 21 April 2025)

anyone know what percentage microsoft gets?

Ryuu96 2zosteven (on 21 April 2025)

Don't think it has been confirmed but as a similar case scenario, Mattel received 5% of box office gross from the Barbie film, they also had a big boost to merchandise sales though thanks to the film. Microsoft is probably looking at about ~5% then because I doubt they have a bigger % than Mattel.

JRPGfan 2zosteven (on 22 April 2025)

WB probably takes the vast marjority of the profits, that don't go to the movie theaters. Like Ryuu96 said its probably in the single digits of %'s or a fixed sum, they agreed on early on.

Wman1996 (on 24 April 2025)

Not beating Mario but that's a ton of money.

Azzanation (on 21 April 2025)

This IP continues to print money.

dane007 Azzanation (on 22 April 2025)

Seen the movie and it's faithful to the game itself

Pemalite Azzanation (on 22 April 2025)

I think Microsoft made a good financial decision buying Mojang... 2.5~ Billion smacko's, 9 years ago.

Since they released...

Minecraft Dungeons.
Minecraft Earth.
Minecraft Legends.
And a movie.

Minecraft sales continued from 54~ Million in 2014 to 350+ Million in 2025.

And endless amounts of toys and tie-in media.

It will be interesting to see if the movie has the legs to beat Mario's 1.34~ Billion Box Office haul.