After more than a decade in development, “A Minecraft Movie” has dug deep and struck box office diamonds. Warner Bros. and Legendary Entertainment’s long-gestating video game adaptation notched a stellar $58 million across Friday and preview screenings from 4,263 North American venues — blasting past “Captain America: Brave New World” ($40.9 million) to land the biggest opening day figure of 2025 so far. In fact, it’s the largest since the record-breaking “Deadpool & Wolverine” launch back in July 2024.

It’s a huge start that puts “A Minecraft Movie” on pace to jockey far ahead of its initial projections, which had forecast a domestic opening weekend of $70 million to $80 million. A three-day debut in the nine-digits is now on the way; the North American market hasn’t seen one of those since “Moana 2” back in November. Some projections have the blocky adventure film going north of $150 million for its opening weekend, which would...