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Direct From Hollywood With Ryan Seacrest: 'Minecraft' Is Saving Movie Theaters · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest, the Minecraft movie was
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Speaker 1: already smash it after its first weekend in theaters were
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Speaker 1: raked in one hundred and sixty three million dollars, the
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Speaker 1: best of the year and the best of all time
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Speaker 1: for a video game adaptation.
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Speaker 2: But in its second weekend it continued to perform beyond expectations,
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Speaker 2: earning another eighty million dollars variety of reports. That brings
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Speaker 2: a total to two hundred and eighty one million domestically
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Speaker 2: and five hundred and fifty million globally, and the impact
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Speaker 2: of those earnings stateside can't be understated. Movie theaters have
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Speaker 2: been struggling this year, with the box office totals nearly
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Speaker 2: eleven percent behind twenty twenty four, which is a big
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Speaker 2: amount until Minecraft arrived. With the earnings from this film alone,
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Speaker 2: the box office surge two point five percent ahead of
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Speaker 2: last year, and hopefully with a slate of popcorn is
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Speaker 2: summer movies looming, that total will continue to grow. Minecraft
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Speaker 2: is in theaters now.
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Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.