Jared Hess, the director of "Napoleon Dynamite," brings his indie-camp absurdist cred to this adaptation of the blockbuster sandbox video game. At first, we register how hard the actors are working to ...

For over a decade, the video game Minecraft has allowed players to stretch the limits of their creativity and now Glendale-born Jared Hess (writer and director of the iconic movie "Napoleon Dynamite") ...

A Minecraft Movie has made over $300 million already, making it the highest-grossing opening for a video game movie ever, and it’s well on its way to a billion dollars and spawning a whole franchise.

Jack Black leads the merry way in “A Minecraft Movie,” the first film adapted from the world’s bestselling video game which opens globally Friday. For the man forever enshrined as the movies’ ...

Jack Black left fans in awe with his plan to address chicken jockeying during ‘A Minecraft Movie.’ While A Minecraft Movie continues its red-hot run over the first two weeks in theatres, the popular ...

The first taste of A Minecraft Movie‘s score is an original headbanging tune from Jack Black, “I Feel Alive.” Although Black’s name is the only one featured in the main artist’s credit, after ...

The age of clunky, amped up, zoned out, overly literal movies adapted from video games lasted a long time ­— from the very first one, “Super Mario Bros.,” in 1993, stretching on through such duds as ...