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Movies Comedy Movies ByJeremy SmithMarch 31, 2025 1:02 pm EST Warner Bros Jared Hess' "A Minecraft Movie" arrives in theaters this week freighted with dizzyingly high box office expectations, which, if not met, could hasten the end of co-chairs Michael DeLuca and Pamela Abdy's rocky tenure at Warner Bros. (though catastrophically inept Warner Bros. Discovery honcho David Zaslav should be the one to go). That's a lot to heap on a family-friendly, mega-budget adaptation of a basically narrative-less video game, but this is where WB finds itself after suffering through a string of high-profile flops that included "Joker: Folie à Deux," "Mickey 17" and "The Alto Knights."AdvertisementWe won't know if "A Minecraft Movie" can provide the commercial course correction WB desperately needs until Friday at the earliest, when the first box office numbers will be reported. But, given that there were a limited number of critics screenings last week, we can check in how the film played with a number...