After living a mostly low key career after he and wife Jerusha launched with the Sundance sensation Napoleon Dynamite in 2004, director Jared Hess has come roaring back with A Minecraft Movie, a true sleeper from Warner Bros and Legendary that is outpacing the early returns of other WB releases like Barbie and The Dark

M inecraft is everywhere right now — including on your feed in the form of a few unfinished clips from A Minecraft Movie that have gone viral on social media. Two sneak peek vid

As it turns out, that also extends to the million-dollar budget of its Jack Black-starring movie – with its director Jared Hess making sure to test the weird and wonderful creations of the on-screen Otherworld in the Mojang game before bringing it to life on the big screen.

If anyone were to play two men deeply invested in the Overworld of A Minecraft Movie, Jack Black and Jason Momoa were good choices. Where video game adaptations with planned-out paths such as the fully animated A Super Mario Bros Movie or those like the Tron films that have an organization to the world-building and

The appearance of Minecraft on the big screen has unbalanced the humors of the world's youths, whose ecstatic outbursts at screenings are showering audiences with popcorn and cries of "chicken jockey!" At least two incidents have even ended with police intervention.

There’s a scene quite early on in A Minecraft Movie that, to the unaware, would completely pass you by. As Jack Black’s Steve introduces the newly arrived humans to his village, young teenager Henry sees a pig walk past wearing a crown.

One scene in particular, where Jack Black's character acknowledges a zombie riding a chicken, has led to apparent pandemonium from young viewers in theatersAudiences attending screenings of A Minecraft Movie are being asked by cinemas to avoid "disruptive behavior" following a social media trend where viewers vocally react to one particular sceneClips shared to TikTok and beyond show audiences around the world reciting,

…Warner Bros/Legendary’s A Minecraft Movie is no sheep at the box office. Who the hell saw this coming? The opening in U.S./Canada of $163M beats that of Barbie ($162M)! Yes, tracking pegged this at $65M,