‘A Minecraft Movie': Theater Chain Announces ‘Chicken Jockey' Screenings
A major theater chain has found a creative solution to handling the "Chicken Jockey" scene in A Minecraft Movie.
Reports from theaters across the country after A Minecraft Movie opened on April 4 noted that a TikTok video craze was wreaking havoc in some theaters during a particular scene in A Minecraft Movie — the big screen adaptation of the blockbuster Mojang Studios Minecraft video game.
The movie is set largely in the Overworld, where Steve (Jack Black) discovers he can build anything he imagines out of blocks in the fantastical environment, which is inhabited by block-shaped creatures.
After discovering the same portal that enabled Steve to enter the Overworld, a group of misfits — Garrett (Jason Momoa), Henry (Sebastian Hansen), Natalie (Emma Myers) and Dawn (Danielle Brooks) — enter the environs and attempt to rescue Steve from the nefarious Piglins.
However, it's a scene that involves a couple of other block-shaped creatures — a zombie and a chicken — that has audiences going wild. Dubbed the 'Chicken Jockey' scene, the segment, as evidenced in a video posted on X, shows theatergoers standing up, screaming and throwing popcorn and concessions everywhere. To top it all off, a patron is caught on camera hoisting a live chicken in the air.
In an apparent effort not to stop but contain the boisterous actions of moviegoers during showings of A Minecraft Movie, Regal Cinemas has set a date for a special 'Chicken Jockey' 4DX screening at some of its locations. The theater chain announced on social media that the special screenings will take place on Sunday, April 20.
'Level up your experience of A Minecraft Movie with our Chicken Jockey Screening exclusively in 4DX. Dress up as your favorite Minecraft characters, whoop, yelp, clap and shout,' Regal noted in the X post below.
Despite competition from five new films in wide release, A Minecraft Movie held on to the No. 1 spot at the domestic box office with $80 million in ticket sales.
With the massive second weekend haul, A Minecraft Movie has earned nearly $278.8 million from North American theaters and nearly $269.2 million internationally for a worldwide box office tally of $548 million to date.
A Minecraft Movie had a $150 million production budget before prints and advertising costs, The Numbers reported.
As for the upcoming Chicken Jockey screenings of A Minecraft Movie this Sunday, there's no word whether real chickens will be allowed in theaters — but surely some moviegoers will be dressed like one.
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