This past weekend, following a first quarter when the industry fretted that moviegoers forgot about going to the movies, Warner Bros and Legendary revived the global and domestic box office with the Jared Hess-directed A Minecraft Movie, which saw a $163 million U.S.-Canada opening, $150.7M abroad and $313.7M worldwide.
Here are all the box office records that were broken:
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Domestic Box Office
Biggest opening YTD (as of April 7, 2025), ahead of Captain America: Brave New World ($88.8M).
Record opening for a Movie Based on a Videogame, outstripping Super Mario Bros Movie‘s 3-day cume of $146.3M in 2023.
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Record opening for a Warner Bros-Legendary co-production, ahead of The Dark Knight Rises ($160.8M).
Largest Friday-Saturday-Sunday opening since Deadpool & Wolverine, $211.4M in July 2024
Jack Black’s biggest domestic opening, besting Super Mario Bros Movie‘s FSS.
Jason Momoa‘s biggest domestic opening as a Lead. He made a cameo in, but was not the lead of, 2016’s Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice ($166M)
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Warner Bros’ largest 3-day cume in April: Beating Clash of the Titans’ opening of $61.2M.
Warner Bros’ biggest Saturday of all time at $60M, previously Batman vs Superman ($50.6M)
Warner Bros’ biggest Sunday of all time at $46.3M, previously Barbie ($43.7M)
The only film in box office history to open to over $50 million and see no drop Saturday — instead, it rose by 4%. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice dropped 0% from Friday to Saturday but only opened to $41M.
Overall, biggest industry weekend of 2025 YTD with $205M, previously Presidents’ Day Weekend (3-day was $155.4M and 4-day $181.2M) and largest since Thanksgiving weekend 2024 ($277M)
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Largest PG opening in April, previous Super Mario Bros. Movie ($146.4M).
Director Jared Hess’ biggest opening, previously Nacho Libre ($28.3M)
Danielle Brooks’ biggest opening, previously Angry Birds Movie ($38.1M)RELATED:
Jennifer Coolidge’s biggest opening, previously American Pie 2 ($45.1M)
OTHER NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS
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Warner Bros’ 3rd-largest opening of all time after Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 ($169M) and Batman v. Superman ($166M).
3rd-biggest opening in April after Avengers: Endgame ($357.1M) and Avengers: Infinity War ($257.7M).
4th-biggest opening Ever for PG movie, after The Lion King ($191.7M), Incredibles 2 ($182.6M) and Beauty and the Beast ($174.7M).
2nd-highest oppening for a Legendary co-production, behind 2015’s Jurassic World ($209M).
International Box Office
The No. 1 video game adaptation in 38 markets including Spain and the UK (both excluding previews), Italy, Australia, Brazil, Spain, Poland and all the Nordic markets.
The No. 1 Jack Black opening in 32 markets including Spain and the UK (both excluding previews), Australia, Poland, the Nordic markets, UAE and Saudi Arabia (including previews). In Latin America, it was Black’s biggest live-action opening in 14 markets.
The No. 1 Jason Momoa opening in 25 markets including Australia, Germany, Holland, Spain, UK, the Nordic markets and Poland.
Biggest international opening for a WB title since Barbie ($194.3M)
For Latin America, the biggest opening weekend of 2025 and Jack Black’s biggest live-action opening weekend. It is also the 2nd biggest opening for a video game adaptation behind Super Mario Bros Movie.
In Europe, the biggest opening of 2025 and 2nd-biggest video game adaptation opening (behind The Super Mario Bros Movie by 6%), the biggest opening ever for Jason Momoa, and the 2nd biggest ever for Jack Black (just slightly behind Super Mario Bros).
Biggest industry opening of all time in Poland, beating the huge local film Kler.
Biggest Warner Bros opening of all time in Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Finland, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine
OTHER NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS
2nd-biggest video game adaptation and Jack Black opening ever, both behind The Super Mario Bros Movie.
Worldwide Box Office
Record opening for a Warner Bros-Legendary co-production
Largest Friday global opening since Deadpool & Wolverine, in July 2024 with $444M
OTHER NOTABLE MARKS
2nd-biggest opening for a Legendary co-production, behind Jurassic World ($525.5M)
Warner Bros’ 7th-biggest global opening