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It was already the best-selling videogame of all time, notes the Hollywood Reporter. And A Minecraft Movie just had the biggest opening ever for a video game movie adaptation. WIth a production budget of $150 million, it earned in $157 million in just its first weekend in the U.S., with a worldwide total of $301 million. A Warner Bros. executive called the movie "lightning in a bottle," while the head of co-producer Legendary Pictures acknowledged the game is a global phenomon, according to the article. (About the movie's performance, the executive "said the opening is a both a reflection of the mandate to celebrate the world of Minecraft in a joyful way, and the singular experience that only theatrical can offer." But an unfinished version leaked online before the movie was even released, reports Variety Screenshots and footage from the fantasy adventure were being shared widely on social media platforms this week, and were also available on file sharing sites. The images and scenes have uncompleted visual effects. Most of the footage was quickly taken down by the rights holders. Although pirated footage is a common problem for major film releases, it's rare to have a working print leak online in this way, raising questions about how such an early version of the movie was accessed, stolen and then shared.

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Katherine Ryan has revealed she was stunned after being slapped with a £6,000 bill this week for a simple blood test to support her post-cancer care. 

Lesley Manville and John Lithgow proudly accepted the award for Best Actor and Actress at the 2025 Olivier Awards on Sunday night.

This is the chaotic moment that captured racegoers at the Grand National pouring their own pints after being left shocked by drinks prices.

Maura Murray was a student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst when she vanished on Feb. 9, 2004, minutes after crashing her car in Haverhill, New Hampshire.

Department of Homeland Security officials requested the IRS hand over their names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses, so it can find and deport them.

Labour's National Insurance jobs tax came into force yesterday - a damaging move that penalises work, imposes a £25billion burden on employers and will make the country poorer.

Even some loyalist Labour MPs have privately expressed fears that Sir Keir Starmer is behaving like a lawyer, not a leader.

A painter who caught headlines for 'purposely distorting' an image of President Donald Trump has broken her silence.

In most photos, the surface of Mars looks like an empty red wasteland. But if you look a bit closer, the remnants of an ancient alien civilization begin to take shape.

The TV star, 41, became a legend after appearing on Big Brother in 2006 and then reappeared on the show its 'ultimate' spin-off in 2010.

Tender plants need to be out in the garden by the end of this month once the risk of overnight frosts has passed But they need to be toughened up first, so the transition is not too much of a shock.

A football club has released a statement following the death of a 15-year-old player who drowned in a lake on Friday afternoon.

The shooting happened after the unidentified man attacked 'a number of children' aged 8 to 16 with a meat cleaver at a home in Bensonhurst, commissioner Jessica Tisch said.

The 43-year-old Grammy winner - who affected a British accent in the clip - will be very hands on with her fully-authorized biopic for Universal Pictures

The presenter, 63, dated former Phats & Small singer Ben Ofoedu , 52, for 16 years, until reports of Ben's infidelity were leaked to the press in 2023.

Here MailOnline takes a look at the chilling stories of Brits who have murdered their parents with hammers, knives and guns and explores the reasons why they snapped.

JAKE FENNER AT UBS ARENA - It's been 7,123 days since he made his debut in the National Hockey League. He's played 1,487 games. Now, Alexander Ovechkin stands alone.

The supermarket is introducing the scheme in five stores across the Manchester area in a move branded 'disproportionate' and 'chilling' by anti-surveillance groups.

theodp writes: America's National Football League announced that beginning with the 2025 season, Sony's Hawk-Eye virtual measurement technology will assess and identify first downs after a ball spot. Sony's Hawk-Eye virtual measurement technology, which consists of six 8K cameras for optical tracking of the position of the ball, is operated from the NFL's "Art McNally GameDay Central Officiating Center" in New York and is integrated with the League's existing replay system. It will serve as an efficient alternative to the process of having a three-person chain crew walk chains onto the field and manually measure whether 10 yards have been met after the official has spotted the ball. However, the chain crew will remain on the field in a secondary capacity. The NFL's executive VP of football operations says their move brings "world-class on field officiating with state-of-the-art technology to advance football excellence." (The NFL's announcement notes the whole process takes about 30 seconds, "saving up to 40 seconds from a measurement with the chains.") The move comes a full seven years after Apple introduced its iPhone Measure app...

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