There’s one box office hero this weekend, and his name is Steve.
Long ago, the plain-looking Minecraft protagonist might have been found hiding in a crudely crafted dirt home, waiting out the night while zombies and creepers lumbered on by. But nowadays, Steve sits on a throne made of diamond blocks. That’s because A Minecraft Movie swept away all other competition this weekend for a box office win. It mined out $157 million domestically.
But Steve’s not the only man who’s been working hard. The Jason Statham flick, A Working Man, fell to second place with $7.28 million in its second weekend. That puts its total, so far, at nearly $28 million.
In a somewhat unconventional way, The Chosen franchise maintained its third-place victory, though not with the same film. While The Chosen: Last Supper – Part One fell to seventh place, Part Two earned $6.7 million. While that’s $4.8 million less than its predecessor made, it’s still just enough to put it before the box office flop, Snow White. The Disney film’s $6.09 million gain and fourth-place win seem just as sleepy as … well, Sleepy.
And rounding out the top five with $4.5 million was horror flick The Woman in the Yard.
Looking down the list, H— of a Summer may not have had a very nice time at summer camp, but it also couldn’t find success at the box office. The Finn Wolfhard slasher film only chopped up $1.75 million in its opening weekend, earning it eighth place. Meanwhile, The Friend, a film starring Naomi Watts and Bill Murray, took ninth place. It earned $1.62 million.
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I don’t know if “Snow White” was meant to actually make money (The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, and to some extent Aladdin could probably eat Snow White’s total production and marketing cost from their pure profits alone) so much as to maintain control of the IP.