Box Office: A Minecraft Movie faces mixed reviews
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“Presales just suddenly popped this week,” an exhibitor remarked today at CinemaCon about the potential mushrooming forecast for Warner Bros / Legendary ‘s A Minecraft Movie.
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Warner Bros. and Legendary’s cinematic take on the beloved video game is targeting $70 million to $80 million in its domestic opening weekend.
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To celebrate the release of A Minecraft Movie, we had the cast — Jack Black, Jason Momoa, Danielle Brooks, Emma Myers, and Sebastian Hansen — play a game of Who’s Who with us, and their reactions were...
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If there’s an acting task Jack Black is most qualified for, it’s probably playing a video game character. One of the first jobs the funnyman booked was starring in an ad for Activision’s Pitfall! game in the 1980s.
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CultureMap Dallas on MSNJack Black and Jason Momoa make A Minecraft Movie into ridiculous funOne reason the majority of movies based on video games have failed is because their filmmakers didn’t understand how to translate the appeal of the game to the relatively-limited storytelling ability of film.
Sebastian Hansen, Emma Myers, Danielle Brooks and Jennifer Coolidge also star in the story of four strangers who must find their way back home after being pulled into a cubic wonderland created by a doorknob salesman.
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The actors joined Jennifer Coolidge and Danielle Brooks for the movie's world premiere in London's Leicester Square.
Actor Jack Black found the world of the Warner Bros film “A Minecraft Movie” easy to navigate because he had played the 2011 Swedish video game “Minecraft,” on which the movie is based. "I had (my) kids that were obsessed with 'Minecraft' years before I heard about this movie.
At times narratively messy, the new movie manages to capture the game's creative spirit. A Minecraft Movie Is a Video Game Adaptation Worthy of Jack Black’s Talents: Review
A Minecraft Movie” offers a great surprise in Jason Momoa’s Garrett Garrison, the aging gamer for whom time has stood still. More than a hair-metal Gen X boomer stereotype, Momoa’s “1989 gamer of the year” delights as a soft reboot of Uncle Rico,
Jack Black says the public reception to the Minecraft movie has left him unsure of whether it will be well-received.