Jared Hess' mega-budget video game adaptation works best whenever you can tell that it was made by the director of "Napoleon Dynamite." Unsurprisingly — or, as someone with a fatal allergy to ...

Jared Hess, the director of "Napoleon Dynamite," brings his indie-camp absurdist cred to this adaptation of the blockbuster sandbox video game. At first, we register how hard the actors are working to ...

A Minecraft Movie 2 will release on July 23, 2027. The news was announced on October 9, 2025, by Minecraft Movie via Twitter ...

I’m a 42-year-old woman who has never played Minecraft. I knew nothing about the popular children’s video game before seeing “A Minecraft Movie.” So to better understand the new fantasy adventure film ...

The idea of a movie based on a popular video game is hardly new. “Mortal Kombat,” “Sonic the Hedgehog,” “Tomb Raider,” and “Gran Turismo” are just a few of the titles that made the transition to the ...

Ten years ago, the idea of a movie based on Minecraft, starring Jack Black and Jason Momoa, would have sounded like a setup for a joke about the current state of video game films. In 2025, though, ...

The movie hits theaters April 4, 2025. There's no shame in being dumb fun. There might even be money in it. So expect "A Minecraft Movie," , only in theaters, to hit the top of this week's box-office ...

The age of clunky, amped-up, zoned-out, overly literal movies adapted from video games lasted a long time ­— from the very first one, “Super Mario Bros.,” in 1993, stretching on through such duds as ...