Coolidge and Nitwit are involved in a B-story in the film that follows their chance meeting and subsequent relationship. A Minecraft Movie is out in the wild, and judging by the $301 million it made during its opening weekend,

This new family movie, inspired by the famous story-sparse adventure game Minecraft, always had an uphill battle: the game may be played by kids, but its biggest fan-base is adults (bearing in mind that it's been around for 14 years now). A Minecraft Movie doesn't care about these older fans, though; this is a family film through and through.

Steve was the original human discoverer of the Overworld, or the cubic universe like that of the Minecraft video game. He tamed his beloved dog Dennis with the bone of a dead skeleton and left the Orb of Dominance behind on Earth for Garrett (Jason Momoa) to discover and Henry (Sebastian Hansen) to put together.

Weekend ticket sales will total $157 million, analysts said, nearly double the expected amount, ending a Hollywood dry spell.

IGN had the chance to speak with the team behind A Minecraft Movie, and they shared that they built a private server that the cast and crew had access to in order to make this adaptation feel as faithful as possible.

Audience member @CallMeCarsonYT shared a video from their time at the theater with the caption, “The Ideal Minecraft Movie Theater Reaction.” In the clip, the whole place goes

Hollywood needed “A Minecraft Movie” to be a hit, and it delivered in its opening weekend, significantly narrowing this year’s box office deficit. No one guessed just how big it would be. In its first few days in theaters,

With rumors swirling about the Warner Bros. film bosses' fates, the coming months will be telling as the studio stares down a slate full of original (and expensive) swings from big-name filmmakers.

: Warner Bros/Legendary’s A Minecraft Movie has come in with an astounding $301M global opening. Of that, $144.1M is from the international box office. As we’ve noted throughout the weekend (see below),