'A Minecraft Movie' Crafts A Pristine HBO Max Streaming Date
It’s so close you can almost taste the lava
Minecraft is not my thing, but if you can’t lava chicken, who can you love? A Minecraft Movie was probably the first bona fide hit of 2025, so when it came to finding out when the Warner Bros. film was chicken jockeying its way to HBO Max, I stayed alert. At first, it was hit with a Coming Soon, but it turned out to build up to their typical advance notice of a week. The film based on the hit video game premieres on the streamer with an accompanying ASL version next Friday, June 20, before its primetime linear HBO premiere on Saturday, June 21 at 8 PM Eastern.
The film sees four misfits, Garrett “The Garbage Man” Garrison (played by Jason Momoa), Henry (Sebastian Hansen), Natalie (Emma Myers) and Dawn (Danielle Brooks) find themselves struggling with ordinary problems when they are abruptly portaled into the Overworld: a strange, cubic wonderland fueled imagination. To get back home, they’ll have to master this world while fighting back against Piglins and Zombies as they journey through it with an unexpected, expert crafter, Steve (Jack Black). The entire party must be bold and reconnect with their uniquely individual creative styles so they can do better in the real world.
'The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie' Gums Home To HBO Max The Long Way Around
A Warner Bros.-made film is still a Warner Bros.-made film after all. The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie, the first fully-original fully-animated Looney Tunes movie was originally announced as made for Cartoon Network’s now-defunct ACME Night and
Opening on April 4, it will have taken A Minecraft Movie the 77 days or 11 weeks that it took Warner Bros.’s previous major release, Mickey 17. It is certainly in that average range that the studio’s releases have had for as long as I’ve been tracking. It may very well end up that this length becomes the baseline going forward. As for that box office, it’s made $951.5 million globally on a $423.7 million domestic, $527.8 million international split, on an opening weekend gross of $162.8 million domestically and $313 million globally. That is a domestic open that is the highest-grossing opening weekend for a movie based on a video game, and was the top opening weekend of the year before Lilo & Stitch had its monster.
Being based on a video game, A Minecraft Movie already had a baked-in terminally online fanbase. A fanbase loud enough to turn the “Chicken Jockey” scene memetic and go absolutely feral in-theater at its utterance. “Steve’s Lava Chicken” became Jack Black’s second viral movie song in three years, which at 34 seconds is the shortest Hot 100 hit ever by run time, dating back to 1958. It debuted at #78 in early May.
'Wicked: For Good' Trailer Holds The Space Between Elphaba And Glinda
Who is Our Wizard, Lies? Who can say if you hope to keep safe from the pain? The world may very well be changed for the better as Universal Pictures released the trailer for Wicked: For Good, the second part of their adaptation of the Wicked musical, which released its first part last November 22 and will be concluded on November 21. The trailer in fact…
