Jack Black and Jason Momoa opened A Minecraft Movie, Jared Hess’s film of the best-selling video game, at its world premiere in Leicester Square.
Jack Black, star of School of Rock, led the world premiere of A Minecraft Movie at Cineworld Leicester Square in the West End on Sunday 30 March 2025. Jason Momoa and Jennifer Coolidge joined him on a carpet laid in green grass.
Black was born in Santa Monica in 1969 and studied at UCLA before joining Tim Robbins’s Actors’ Gang. There he met Kyle Gass, and together they formed the comedy rock duo Tenacious D.
High Fidelity brought him to wider notice in 2000, and the Kung Fu Panda films followed. In the film he plays Steve, the game’s default character.
Jared Hess, who made Napoleon Dynamite, directed. Four misfits are pulled through a portal into the Overworld, a cube-built world, and need Steve’s help to get home.
The Swedish studio Mojang released Minecraft in full in 2011, and it is the best-selling video game ever made.
Momoa plays Garrett, a faded arcade champion, and Coolidge a school vice-principal left behind in the real world. Danielle Brooks and Emma Myers also attended, and Warner Bros. released the film in British cinemas on 4 April.