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A Minecraft Movie opens with biggest US domestic opening weekend ever for a video game adaptation


A Minecraft Movie has generated $301m worldwide - that's £233m - on its opening weekend.

Watch on YouTubeSonic the Hedgehog 3 is the second-highest-grossing game adaptation movie ever by grossing $491m (£379m). "I left feeling that The Minecraft Movie, something weirder and trickier and perhaps less formally careful, is out there somewhere, its bright potential untouched," our Chris Donlan wrote in his Minecraft movie review, awarding it 3/5 stars. "Minecraft hardly needs a film in the first place - it's already a phenomenon, a Pandora's Box, an essential formative aspect of the childhoods of millions of people around the world.

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