A Minecraft Movie On Pace To Finish As 2025 s Highest Grossing Film In The U.S.
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If all things stay the same, and neither Avatar: Fire and Ash nor Zootopia 2 explode financially to end the calendar year, A Minecraft Movie will finish as the highest-grossing film in the United States for 2025 with its $423.9 million run in theaters.
Yes, that’s a legitimate possibility, and with each passing hour the reality that A Minecraft Movie, with its 48 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes, is becoming more and more real.
Word of A Minecraft Movie’s pending success comes by way of a box office analyst, who further notes that it would be the first time since 2014 that a year-end topper will have grossed under $500 million at the domestic box office.
What’s more, as one person on Reddit pointed out, should A Minecraft Movie earn this year’s box office crown, it will have the worst Rotten Tomatoes score for any year-end winner since 1953. That movie was The Robe, a biblical epic that makes A Minecraft Movie look like The Godfather.
Again, all this is conjecture, albeit extremely realistic conjecture. Right now, Zootopia 2 is sitting at $282.8 million, and would need a massive turnaround before December’s end to pass Minecraft.
Meanwhile, Avatar: Fire and Ash, AKA Avatar 3, just ended with an $88 million domestic weekend debut, per Variety, a bit of a far cry from the $90-105 million it was being projected for. Like we said, extremely realistic.
A Minecraft Movie Was A Cultural Moment, And Its Potential Box Office Win Is Just The Cherry On Top
While poor reviews are enough to dissuade people from watching a specific movie or playing a certain game, that didn’t apply to A Minecraft Movie, which managed to excel in the face of negativity.
It managed to take home the biggest opening day for a video game movie, then just a few days later, seemingly out of nowhere, a massive meme surrounding the “Chicken Jockey” scene made the movie a must-watch event, much to the dismay of the poor movie theater employees caught up in it.
That meme was big enough that a movie theater chain dedicated an entire day to it, and before long A Minecraft Movie was inching closer and closer to the fabled $1 billion territory. (It unfortunately didn’t cross that threshold, ending with $958 million.)
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Finally, a sequel was not only greenlit but given a July 23, 2027, release date. Yes, all that happened. Long live, A Minecraft Movie. We might not see such a massive financial and cultural success for a poorly-reviewed piece of entertainment ever again.
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