For most of the time that the concept of video game film adaptations has existed, a widely beloved and successful game being turned into a movie would frequently translate to one of the worst releases ever. The original Super Mario Bros. Movie from 1993, The Rock’s ill-advised attempt at a live-action Doom adaptation, the Tekken film from 2010, up until the last five or 10 years, the scale of your achievement in gaming was inversely related to how well it would do at the box office. Of course, now that video games have become a mainstream pastime across the globe, we’re seeing more and more that they’re becoming a reliable box office draw.
In recent memory, one of the biggest winners of Hollywood’s video game gold rush is also one of the biggest video games of all-time: Minecraft. Since originally releasing back in 2011, the immersive sandbox has gone on to sell 350 million copies worldwide, not counting the spinoff games that have come since – and last year’s adaptation, A Minecraft Movie, was one of 2025’s biggest hits, grossing nearly $1 billion at the box office on a budget of $150 million. It was clear from the moment the film became a financial triumph that more Minecraft would be coming to the big screen, and a full year later, we now know exactly what the film’s sequel will be called.
