A Minecraft Movie seemed unstoppable at the domestic box office over the past two weeks, earning the title of the year’s most profitable premiere and last week, unseating Captain America: Brave New World as the highest-grossing film of 2025 so far.
Though it’s still doing big numbers at the box office, grossing $41.3 million in its third week of release, Warner Bros.‘ big-screen video game adaptation has already been unseated by a powerful new foe. Sinners, Ryan Coogler‘s blood-soaked new historical vampire thriller, staked its spot at the top of the box office this weekend with a $45.6 million premiere.
Sinners reunites Coogler with star Michael B. Jordan for the fifth time, following Fruitvale Station, Creed, and Black Panther and its sequel, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. In an impressive dual performance, Jordan stars as twins Smoke and Stack, WWI vets who return to their hometown in the Mississippi Delta only to find it infested with vicious vampires. Jack O’Connell, Delroy Lindo, and Hailee Steinfeld costar in the film.
Michael B. Jordan as Smoke in ‘Sinners’. Eli Adé/Warner Bros.
With two additional weeks under its belt, A Minecraft Movie is still dominating the year’s cumulative box office charts, with $344.6 million to date — $140 million more than its closest competitor, Brave New World.
The animated epic The King of Kings — the latest from Angel Studios, the frequent producers of Christian films behind the highly profitable 2023 sex trafficking thriller, Sound of Freedom — earned the third spot on this weekend’s domestic leaderboard with $17.2 million.
The Rami Malek political thriller The Amateur took the fourth spot with $7.2 million, and officially earned back its $60 million budget at the global box office, with a cumulative haul of $64.3 million this week. Rounding out the top five is Warfare, A24’s It Boy-studded Iraq War actioner, with $4.85 million.
Easter weekend’s domestic box office contains several other interesting stories, including the appearance of Joe Wright‘s beloved adaptation of Pride & Prejudice. The film surged back to the eighth spot two decades after its initial release, earning $2.7 million after Focus Features returned it to theaters for a limited engagement.
Dallas Jenkins’ serialized retelling of the story of Jesus Christ, The Chosen, continues to perform well when released in episodic chunks in American theaters. The Chosen: Last Supper (Season 5) Part 3 earned $1.8 million this weekend, earning it the ninth spot on the domestic leaderboard and bringing the Last Supper segment of the series to a cumulative $11.6 million haul.
Andrew Ahn’s remake of Ang Lee‘s The Wedding Banquet, starring Lily Gladstone, Bowen Yang, and Kelly Marie Tran, earned $992,906 in its opening weekend and didn’t place within the top 10.
Jack Black, Danielle Brooks and Jason Momoa in ‘Sinners’. Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures
When it comes to the global picture, A Minecraft Movie maintained its foothold on the top spot, beating Sinners by a whopping $40 million ($100.3 million to Sinners‘ $61 million). The true winner is Warner Bros., the studio that released both films and has now grossed nearly $800 million globally between them.
While The King of Kings and The Amateur both reprised their roles in the domestic top 5 on the global chart, they were both knocked down a peg. Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback, the 28th film in the prolific and beloved Detective Conan (Case Closed) franchise, raked in $27.7 million this weekend after premiering only in Japan. One-Eyed Flashback now boasts the highest-grossing premiere in the franchise.
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