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Low-stakes fun: Minecraft movie captivates kids and adults alike

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By Jogai Bhatt of RNZ A room full of kids were totally immersed in the fantasy world of A Minecraft Movie at the NZ premiere, and that’s got to tell you...

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Griffith Observatory recreated in Minecraft. How you can play the map

Los Angeles landmark the Griffith Observatory has been recreated in Minecraft for visitors to explore at home in a “whole new light.” The free, downloadable Minecraft map can be played on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and “allows visitors to engage with a unique, virtual version of Griffith Observatory in first-person,” an online statement reads. While the map is free, Minecraft...

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Deadline

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‘A Minecraft Movie’ Bound For Platinum Box Office Weekend After $7M+ Thursday Previews

EXCLUSIVE: “Presales just suddenly popped this week,” an exhibitor remarked today at CinemaCon about the potential mushrooming forecast for Warner Bros/Legendary’s A Minecraft Movie. Get excited. At a time when the domestic box office this year is -11% behind 2024, and on a day when President Donald Trump has just turned the economy upside with global tariffs, the Burbank, CA lot is looking at a big hit this weekend in A Minecraft Movie. Previ…

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Variety

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Emma Myers Digs In: The ‘Wednesday’ Star on Exploring the Overworld in ‘A Minecraft Movie,’ Navigating Fandom Expectations and Returning as Enid

Emma Myers’ wanderlust extends beyond our world — even beyond our reality. “I am a fantasy lover — it’s my favorite genre,” Myers says, noting how much she cherishes setting her phone aside to explore realms that don’t exist. “It’s what I grew up reading; it’s what I grew up watching. I don’t know — there’s just something so magical about it.” It’s late February, and we’re sipping matcha lattes on an unseasonably warm day in Mariett…

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Rolling Stone

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‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is Exactly What You Think It Will Be, and Less

…And on the sixth day, God created the animals of the land, including the livestock, those that crept upon the ground, and some wonky-looking wolves and chickens and bees that took upon themself an almost cube-like shape. Then He created humans in His own image, as well as some villagers with conspicuously phallic shaped noses, some walking skeletons and what the hell, a couple of zombies. And He looked upon the Earth, filled with hand-angled ar…

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REVIEW: Jason Momoa shines in ’A Minecraft Movie’

The latest IP to be mined into a Hollywood blockbuster is appropriately a video game that celebrates digging: "A Minecraft Movie."

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Low-stakes fun: Minecraft movie captivates kids and adults alike

By Jogai Bhatt of RNZ A room full of kids were totally immersed in the fantasy world of A Minecraft Movie at the NZ premiere, and that’s got to tell you...

10 days ago

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