Highest-grossing opening weekend for a movie based on a videogame
- Who
- A Minecraft Movie
- What
- 313,700,000 US dollar(s)
- Where
- Not Applicable
- When
- 06 April 2025
A Minecraft Movie (USA/Sweden/New Zealand/Canada, 2025) got the green-carpet treatment for its premiere in Leicester Square, London, UK, on 30 March 2025, before releasing worldwide on 4 April 2025 (a Friday). Over the three days of its opening weekend, A Minecraft Movie came away with $162.75 m (£126 m) for its domestic box office in the USA, combining with international screenings for a total global box office of $313.7 m (£243 m), as verified by The Numbers.
The highest-grossing movie based on a videogame overall is The Super Mario Bros. Movie (USA, 2023), which had raked in $1,359,146,628 (£1.079 bn) worldwide as of 19 February 2025, but didn't have quite as good an opening weekend.