After living a mostly low key career after he and wife Jerusha launched with the Sundance sensation Napoleon Dynamite in 2004, director Jared Hess has come roaring back with A Minecraft Movie, a true sleeper from Warner Bros and Legendary that is outpacing the early returns of other WB releases like Barbie and The Dark

W hy do people shiver with antici… pation before Jack Black says “Chicken jockey!” in A Minecraft Movie? Black’s much-memed delivery of the line, which was previously teas

Audiences have been going wild over the film’s chicken jockey scene. Here’s an explanation of what all the hype is about. It is what it sounds like. A “chicken jockey” is

If anyone were to play two men deeply invested in the Overworld of A Minecraft Movie, Jack Black and Jason Momoa were good choices. Where video game adaptations with planned-out paths such as the fully animated A Super Mario Bros Movie or those like the Tron films that have an organization to the world-building and

Minor spoilers ahead for A Minecraft Movie. The team behind A Minecraft Movie revealed to IGN that one of the funniest moments in the video game adaptation was actually inspired by The NeverEnding Story.

As it turns out, that also extends to the million-dollar budget of its Jack Black-starring movie – with its director Jared Hess making sure to test the weird and wonderful creations of the on-screen Otherworld in the Mojang game before bringing it to life on the big screen.

There’s a scene quite early on in A Minecraft Movie that, to the unaware, would completely pass you by. As Jack Black’s Steve introduces the newly arrived humans to his village, young teenager Henry sees a pig walk past wearing a crown.