SUNDAY AM UPDATE: We’ll have more updates for you later this morning, but at $157M, it’s the biggest opening for a videogame feature take ever. Congrats to Warner Bros and Legendary for bringing the box office back alive. Deadline TV Contenders is going on, so c’mon on down to the DGA. With light entertainment programming ahead, heading into Easter, the world, literally, is Warner Bros’ oyster.
Beamed Warner Bros Motion Picture Group co-chairs Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy who fully greenlight this feature film after it was a longtime in development at the studio, “We’re absolutely overjoyed A Minecraft Movie has been so warmly received by audiences around the world and extend our congratulations to Jared Hess and his filmmaking team, Legendary, Vertigo, Mojang, and our phenomenal cast led by Jason Momoa, Jack Black, Emma Myers, Sebastian Hansen, Danielle Brooks, and Jennifer Coolidge who helped make the film a must-see event for moviegoers of all ages. A Minecraft Movie’s decade long journey to the screen was overseen with great care by WBP’s Jesse Ehrman and his team, and we are thrilled their efforts have resulted in such a tremendous response. The inventive marketing campaign lead by Dana Nussbaum, Christian Davin, John Stanford and their teams, along with a strategic global distribution plan laid out by Jeff Goldstein and his team, have led to a spectacular result. We extend our thanks to them – and every division across WBD who supported the film – for their incredible work.”
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