It was a very, very crowded weekend at the box office. Unusually so, especially considering that the number one movie was a holdover in the form of A Minecraft Movie, which is now an absolute juggernaut of a blockbuster, taking in more than $80 million on its second weekend. The video game adaptation mostly steamrolled the competition in its debut last weekend. That said, the Warner Bros. tentpole had more to compete against in its second frame, with five new releases in the top ten on the charts.
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Though not the biggest of the new titles, horror had a presence in the top five this weekend as director Chistopher Landon’s new thriller Drop had itself a fine debut. The new collaboration between Landon and Blumhouse earned $7.5 million on its opening weekend against a very reasonable $11 million budget. That was good enough for number five on the charts. The movie is also riding high on stellar reviews, so it should be able to hang around for weeks to come.
The movie centers on a woman who goes on a date and begins getting mysterious drops on her phone. Things get deadly from there. Meghann Fahy (The White Lotus) and Brandon Sklenar (1923) star. As for Landon, his previous credits include Happy Death Day and Freaky. This is yet another example of him getting audiences to show up for an original movie, which is increasingly difficult in today’s climate.
One of the biggest surprises of the weekend was The King of Kings, an animated Jesus movie, which made $19 million in the number two spot. We also had the Rami Malek action/thriller The Amateur ($15 million) and A24’s gritty new war drama Warfare ($8.3 million) rounding out the top five. It was a busy weekend and a varied one. For the most part, it worked out for all of these movies, which is good news given that the first chunk of 2025 was tough sledding at the box office all around.
Your movie doesn’t have to be number one to be a success. That’s something Hollywood at large would do well to remember as theaters continue to try and establish a comfortable, new normal five years removed from the onset of the pandemic.
Elsewhere in the realm of horror we had Blumhouse’s The Woman in the Yard clinging to a spot in the top ten with $2.1 million in its third weekend. This one is running out of gas in its third frame but did cross the $20 million mark domestically. It carries a modest $12 million budget so it should be fine once VOD kicks in. It’s just not going to be an outright theatrical hit.
Meanwhile, a couple of notable titles fell out of the top ten over the weekend. A24’s comedic creature feature Death of a Unicorn made just $525,000 on its third weekend. That one is falling fast and will barely clear $10 million during its run. It’s going to rely on VOD to make up the difference. Meanwhile, NEON’s camp slasher Hell of a Summer plummeted 75% in its second frame with just $448,000. Similarly, this one is going to turn into a VOD play. But it also only cost $3 million to produce, so that’s fine for a movie of that size.
Looking ahead, this Friday we see a monster hit theaters in the form of director Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, which has been earning rave reviews thus far. This one hails from Warner Bros. and was very, very expensive by horror standards (in the $100 million range), so it needs to post a big opening. Buzz is on its side right now and, if all goes well, this could be the cinematic horror event of the year. We shall see.
You can see the full list of the top ten movies at the box office for the weekend of April 11, 2025, below. For more, find out when you can see Stephen King’s The Long Walk movie in theaters.
- A Minecraft Movie – $80.6 million (second weekend)
- The King of Kings – $19 million (first weekend)
- The Amateur – $15 million (first weekend)
- Warfare – $8.3 million (first weekend)
- Drop – $7.5 million (first weekend)
- The Chosen: Last Supper Part 3 – $5.8 million (first weekend)
- A Working Man – $3 million (third weekend)
- Snow White – $2.8 million (fourth weekend)
- The Woman in the Yard – $2.1 million (third weekend)
- The Chosen: Last Supper Part 2 – $931,684 – (second weekend)
