Box Office Weekend Forecast: MINECRAFT ($75M+) to Continue ‘Chicken Jockey’ Craze; THE KING OF KINGS ($15M+) Eyes Biblical Breakout, THE AMATEUR, THE CHOSEN: LAST SUPPER Finale, DROP, and WARFARE Open

MINECRAFT will ride a meme wave into the start of healthy chase weekends, while THE KING OF KINGS looks to set a new Biblical animation record and a slew of releases add variety to the spring market.

This report also appears on Box Office Theory’s website.

After a much needed box office breakout, A Minecraft Movie is set to rule again following its best-ever opening for a video game adaptation. The market sees a handful of notable counter-programmers, though.