A Minecraft Movie has grossed $550 million globally in under two weeks.
As reported by Variety, the Warner Bros. video game adaptation has grossed $281 million domestically and $550 million globally.
The film debuted on April 4, 2025, and remained at the top of the box office for a second week in a row. It grossed $80 million during its second weekend in theatres despite five new releases entering the fray in the United States.
So far, the numbers tower over Captain America: Brave New World. The Marvel flick was previously the highest-grossing film of 2025 after scoring $199 million domestically and $410 million globally.
In terms of recent video game adaptations, it has surpassed 2023 release Five Nights at Freddy’s, which grossed $136 million domestically and $147 million internationally. It has also outpaced Sonic the Hedgehog 3, which grossed $462 million worldwide by February 3, 2025.
As if you needed more evidence that video game adaptations are capable of bringing home the bacon, The Super Mario Bros. Movie earned an estimated $1.35 billion at the box office in 2023—prompting Nintendo to commission a sequel
The transmedia train continues to build steam
Video game studios and publishers are increasingly buying into the transmedia hype. Sony, CD Projekt, Microsoft, Kojima Productions, Sega, and others have all greenlit television and movie projects in a bid to bring major franchises like Ghost of Tsushima, Cyberpunk, Fallout, Halo, Death Stranding, and Like A Dragon to television and cinema screens.
That truly is just the tip of the iceberg. Last year, Remedy penned a deal with Annapurna Pictures that could result in the creation of movies and TV shows based on Control and Alan Wake.
Both Until Dawn and Outlast are also getting the movie treatment, seemingly capitalizing on the attention around the Five Nights at Freddy’s movie and its video game counterparts. The work of smaller developers isn’t going unnoticed, either, with Ruiner and El Paso, Elsewhere being adapted for the silver screen.
Meanwhile, HBO is currently airing the second season of The Last of Us, while Variety reports that a film adaptation of Hazelight Studios’ Split Fiction is in the works. Nintendo has also confirmed plans to turn The Legend of Zelda into a movie, and Sega’s famous blue mascot will sprint back into theatres for Sonic the Hedgehog 4 in 2027.
