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Deadline and Variety reported this week, citing unnamed box office tracking services, that the film was predicted to gross between $130 and $150 million globally on its opening weekend.
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A Minecraft Movie is the first attempt to adapt the blockbuster video game Minecraft for the big screen.
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But cheers to Warner Bros. for embracing the weird by choosing director Jared Hess, whose deadpan 2004 debut, “Napoleon Dynamite,” was so awkward it was sublime.

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