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Today is Wednesday, April 16th, 2025.

And we begin with actor Jack Black, waiting into Minecraft movie mayhem.

For weeks now, theaters have been dealing with rowdy teens hurling popcorn when his character yells chicken jockey and screaming at the top of their lungs at the line, I am Steve.

It seems harmless, but not everyone is happy with the hijinks.

This weekend, Mr. Black made a cheeky in-person appeal to an unsuspecting audience in L.A.

Videos show him incognito impersonating a theater owner yelling,

no throwing popcorn and absolutely no chicken jockeys.

Then the big reveal.

Oh yeah, I am Steve. Are you ready to rock? Roll the projector.

The crowd went wild, and so is the film's box office. A Minecraft movie

has cleared 552 million in global ticket sales in less than two weeks. It's the highest

grossing movie of the year in the U.S., and already one of the biggest video game adaptions

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