This past weekend, following a Q1 when the industry fretted that moviegoers forgot about going to the movies, Warner Bros. and Legendary revived the global and domestic box office with the Jared Hess directed A Minecraft Movie with a $163M U.S./Canada opening, $150.7M abroad and $313.7M worldwide.
Here are all the box office records that were broken:
Domestic
Biggest Opening YTD (as of April 7, 2025), ahead of Captain America: Brave New World‘s ($88.8M).
Record Opening for a Movie Based on a Videogame, outstripping Super Mario Bros Movie‘s 3-day of $146.3M back in 2023.
Record Opening for a Warner Bros-Legendary Co-Production, ahead of Dark Knight Rises ($160.8M).
2nd Highest Opening for a Legendary Co-Production, behind 2015’s Jurassic World ($209M).
Largest FSS opening since Deadpool & Wolverine in July 2024 ($211.4)
Jack Black‘s Biggest Domestic Opening of All-Time, besting Super Mario Bros Movie‘s FSS.
Jason Momoa‘s Biggest Domestic Opening as a Lead. He made a cameo in, but was not the lead of 2016’s Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice ($166M)
Warner Bros’ largest 3-day in April: Beating Clash of the Titans opening of $61.2M.
Warner Bros’ Biggest Saturday of All Time at $60M, previous was Batman vs Superman ($50.6m)
Warner Bros’ Biggest Sunday of All Time at $46.3M, previous being Barbie ($43.7m)
Third Biggest Opening in April after Avengers: Endgame ($357.1m) and Avengers: Infinity War ($257.7M).
Warner Bros’ 3rd Largest Opening of All Time after Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 ($169m) and Batman v. Superman ($166m).
The only film in box office history to open to over $50 million and see no drop on Saturday—instead, it rose by 4%, making it the only film ever to achieve this / Beatlejuice Beatlejuice dropped 0% from Friday to Saturday, but only opened to $41M.
Overall, Largest Industry Weekend of 2025 YTD with $205M, previous Presidents’ Weekend (3-day was $155.4 and 4-day $181.2) & largest since Thanksgiving weekend 2024 ($277m)
Largest PG Opening in April, previous Super Mario Bros. Movie ($146.4M).
Fourth Biggest Opening Ever for PG Rated Movie, after The Lion King ($191.7M), Incredibles 2 ($182.6M) and Beauty and the Beast ($174.7M).
Director Jared Hess’ Largest Opening, previous Nacho Libre ($28.3m)
Danielle Brooks’ Largest Opening, previous Angry Birds Movie ($38.1m)
Jennifer Coolidge’s Largest Opening, previous American Pie 2 ($45.1m)
International
2nd biggest Video Game Adaptation and Jack Black Opening Ever, both behind The Super Mario Bros Movie.
The No. 1 Video Game Adaptation in 38 markets, including Spain and the UK (both excluding previews), Italy, Australia, Brazil, Spain, Poland and all the Nordic markets.
The No. 1 Jack Black opening in 32 markets including Spain and the UK (both excluding previews), Australia, Poland, the Nordic markets, UAE and Saudi Arabia (including previews). In Latin America, it was Jack Black’s biggest Live Action Opening in 14 markets.
The No. 1 Jason Momoa opening in 25 markets including Australia, Germany, Holland, Spain, UK, the Nordic markets and Poland.
Biggest international opening for a WB title since Barbie ($194.3M)
For Latin America, the Biggest Opening Weekend of 2025 and Jack Black’s biggest live-action Opening Weekend. It is also the 2nd biggest opening for a Video Game Adaptation behind The Super Mario Bros Movie.
In Europe, the pic is the biggest opening of 2025, the 2nd biggest Video Game Adaptation opening (behind The Super Mario Bros Movie by just -6%), the biggest opening ever for Jason Momoa and the 2nd biggest opening ever for Jack Black (just slightly behind Super Mario Bros).
Biggest industry opening of all time in Poland, beating the huge local film Kler.
Biggest WB opening of all time in Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Finland, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine.
Worldwide
Record Opening For a Warner Bros- Legendary Co-Production
2nd Biggest Opening for a Legendary Co-Production, behind Jurassic World ($525.5M).
Largest Friday Global opening since Deadpool & Wolverine in July 2024 ($444m)
Warner Bros. 7th Biggest Global Opening.
