Box Office Report: Dropout

Easter is on the way. Do you have your chocolate eggs ready? Shout out to my parents for getting me one. There are two major faith-based movies in theatres right now, and they both did big business, but nothing could take over the sheer might of A Minecraft Movie.

It’s stayed on top for a second week with an extra $80.6 million in the bank domestically. That’s with a 50% drop from its opening! So far, Jack Black’s block bonanza has taken in $550.5 million worldwide, making it the second highest-grossing film of 2025 so far. I fully expect this one to make a billion, although I doubt it’ll be able to topple the record-breaking hit that is Ne Zha 2. The Chinese megahit has earned well over $2.1 billion. It’s the second-fastest film to reach that mark. The vast majority of that has come from China, of course, but it’s also done solid business internationally. That remains very impressive for a movie like this given that most of the Chinese blockbusters don’t get major releases outside of their homeland.

Speaking of animated movies, The King of Kings is an Angel Studios production based on a Charles Dickens book that stars Kenneth Branagh as the author, Mark Hamill as King Herod, and Oscar Isaac as Jesus. No, it doesn’t make any sense. Yes, it’s made a decent amount of money, debuting at number two with $19 million from 3,200 theatres. It is Easter season, and as we’ve discussed many times on Box Office Report, Christian films are a solid bet for success.

Speaking of Jesus — heard of him? — the third part of the Last Supper saga of The Chosen opened at number six with $5,815,117 from 2,296 locations. So far, this trilogy of TV episodes packaged into films has earned about $25 million domestically. It’s a big enough deal that I’ve been getting ads for it on YouTube.

It wasn’t all Jesus. Rami Malek’s action-thriller The Amateur landed at number three with $15 million from 3,400 cinemas. That put it well ahead of Alex Garland’s Warfare, which brought in just over $8.3 million from 2,670 theatres. And that was good enough to beat the thriller Drop, which slumped into number five with $7.5 million.

The indie dramedy Sacramento, directed by Michael Anganaro and starring Kristen Stewart, made $314,000 from 241 cinemas. The Teacher, a drama about a Palestinian teacher working in the West Bank, grossed $20,032 from one cinema.

This coming week sees the release of Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, the American remake of The Wedding Banquet, and the David Cronenberg drama The Shrouds.

You can check out the rest of the weekend box office results here.