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View on web New reader? Subscribe SUBSCRIBE. IT'S FREE. 'A MINECRAFT MOVIE' HAS RECORD OPENING FOR VIDEO GAME FEATURE ADAPTATION warner bros-legendary pic hits $163M, topping 'super mario Bros.' and breathing life back into the box office At $163M, A Minecraft Movie is the biggest domestic opening for a video game feature adaptation. It squashed The Super Mario Bros. Movie‘s 3-day (that Illumination/Universal title rang up $146.3 after a Wednesday bow). Reports across social media showed auditoriums full of middle schoolers hooting, hollering and shouting out meme lines from the game. Kids are jumping on top of seats and dancing in the aisles when Jack Black breaks out in song. A Minecraft Movie mania is real, and ticket sales keep building up like bricks after a $58M Friday, sailing far past an original opening weekend projection of $135M+. >>>Biggest Opening Of The Year Deadline Contenders Television ‘The Last Of Us’ Star Bella Ramsey On The “Shift In The Relationship” Between Ellie And Joel For Season 2 ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Stars Elisabeth Moss, Bradley Whitford & Yvonne Strahovski, EP Yahlin Chang Say Final Season Shows Results Of June’s Positive Influence Billy Bob Thornton Says Working For Demi Moore Will Challenge His ‘Landman’ Character In Season 2 ‘The Boys’ Star Jack Quaid On Exploring “Core Traumas” In A Show That Is “Unapologetically Itself” ‘The Pitt’ Season 2 Will Take Place On A Holiday Weekend, Producer Reveals Michael Fassbender Says ‘The Agency’ Season 2 “Just Doesn’t Let Up” ‘Severance’ Creative Team On Building The World Of Lumon Industries: “There Are So Many Layers” ‘Paradise’ Star Sterling K. Brown Teases “Exploration Of The World Outside The Bunker” In Season 2 ‘1923’s Brandon Sklenar Says Season 2 Finale Of The ‘Yellowstone’ Spinoff “Hits Very, Very Hard” Deadline Contenders Television 2025 Arrivals Gallery: Kaitlin Olson, Jack Quaid, Jodie Turner-Smith & More All Of Deadline's Contenders Television Coverage Deadline Exclusives & Originals Big Game Hunting - A Quiet Place: Day One director Michael Sarnoski will write and direct the highly anticipated live-action adaptation of Hideo Kojima’s genre-defying video game Death Stranding for A24. >>>19M Players 'The Seagull' Flying To N.Y. - The London Barbican Theatre’s scintillating production of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, boasting an all-star ensemble led by Cate Blanchett, Tom Burke and Emma Corrin and directed by the estimable Berlin-based Thomas Ostermeier, is setting course for New York in 2026. >>>Baz Bamigboye's Column ‘Black Mirror’ Creator Talks “USS Callister” Sequel - Speaking with Deadline in the days leading up to Black Mirror‘s Season 7 premiere on April 10, Charlie Brooker told us the idea to follow up on the Star Trek-esque episode that starred Jesse Plemons, Cristin Milioti and Michaela Coel had begun percolating almost immediately upon its conclusion. >>> Read The Interview      The Deadline Interview 'The White Lotus' Creator Mike White, Star Sam Nivola & Rest Of The Cast Unpack Season 3 Finale As Killers & Victims Are Revealed It was carnage at The White Lotus as Mike White went nuclear with a devastating finale that saw a number of the key cast killed as well as a few supplemental characters. “It’s a classic theme of Greek tragedy, or somebody killing the thing that they love and trying to get some revenge,” White said. >>>Read Full Coverage QUOTABLE "It’s not really the art that I consume" - Elizabeth Olsen on Marvel films Casting About Brooke Shields is set to star in and executive produce Allie & Andi, a six-episode murder mystery series from Robin Bernheim (Star Trek: Voyager) at AMC Networks‘ Acorn TV.  Logan Lerman (Hunters) has boarded the upcoming fifth season of Hulu’s hit comedy series Only Murders in the Building in a recurring role. His casting was revealed by Selena Gomez in a behind-the-scenes photo on Instagram. Christopher Gorham (Covert Affairs) is set to guest star in the CBS comedy Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage. He will portray Scott, Mandy’s (Emily Osment) new boss whose romantic history with her starts to complicate her life. Exclusive Sophina Brown (Kindred), Jeff Pierre (Walker) and Cedric Joe (Space Jam: A New Legacy) round out the series regular cast of Netflix's Nemesis, a crime drama created by Courtney A. Kemp (Power universe) and Tani Marole. BY THE NUMBERS 2.2M - Viewership for the first episode of 'MobLand,' making it Paramount+'s biggest global series launch ever More News 📺 AMC is paying homage to its roots as the American Movie Classics channel with a potential new franchise in development. Produced by AMC Studios, Great American Stories is an anthology series where each season “will be devoted to a different celebrated work, historical moment, or individual narrative celebrating and highlighting the American spirit.” 🏆 The 2025 Olivier Awards, held Sunday at London’s Royal Albert Hall and hosted by Beverley Knight and Billy Porter, saw big wins for actors like John Lithgow, Lesley Manville and Imelda Staunton.  ✊ Hollywood workers threw themselves a pep rally on Sunday in hopes that their grassroots campaigning — not to mention their ability to lure hundreds of people into a hot warehouse in balmy Sun Valley — will be enough to keep production in Los Angeles. The goal, of course, is to show support for Governor Newsom’s proposed $750 million tax incentive plan. Hirings, Promotions & Exits Exclusive Prime Video’s Kelly Day Lands Expanded International Role After Jennifer Salke Exit Exclusive Mitchell Gossett Promoted To Partner At Industry Entertainment Lionsgate Promotes Rahwa Ghebre-Ab To EVP & Chief Human Resources Officer Obituaries Robert Trebor, a character actor who recurred as Salmoneus on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess and played “Son of Sam” killer David Berkowitz during his long screen career, has died. He was 71. 🕯️ Jay North, the former child actor who starred as the titular troublemaker on Dennis the Menace , has died. He was 73. Following a years-long battle with cancer, the actor died peacefully at his home on Sunday morning, according to an announcement shared by his friend and Dennis the Menace co-star Jeannie Russell. 🕯️ 2025 Deaths Photo Gallery: Hollywood & Media Obituaries On the Radar Mon - Men's NCAA basketball championship Tue - The Handmaid's Tale Season 6 premieres Thu - Cannes lineup announced; The Masters tees off Sat - Passover begins Photo of the Day 'Paradise' Found - Paradise co-stars Sterling K. Brown and James Marsden at Deadline Contenders Television. This email was sent to punjabsvera@gmail.com by Deadline. Please add email@email.deadline.com to your address book to ensure delivery to your inbox. Visit the Preferences Center to update your profile and customize what email alerts and newsletters you receive. Deadline is a part of Penske Media Corporation. © 2025 Deadline Hollywood, LLC. 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