'A Minecraft Movie' is throwing some movie theaters into utter chaos! A TikTok-fueled viral trend is encouraging movie goers to trash the theater during screenings of the film. Videos have captured audiences throwing food and drink, and trashing auditoriums. In one video, somebody was kicked out for holding up a live chicken. Some theaters are issuing warnings, including "pre-show announcements" and that if the "situation escalates, local authorities can be called." Meanwhile, employees are getting pushed to their limits: "All of us cannot wait for this movie to be gone."
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00:00A Minecraft movie is throwing some movie theaters into utter chaos.
00:06A TikTok-fueled viral trend is encouraging moviegoers to trash the theater during screenings
00:12of the film. Videos have captured audiences throwing food and drink and trashing auditoriums.
00:17In one video, somebody was kicked out for holding up a live chicken. Some theaters are issuing
00:22warnings, including pre-show announcements, and that if the situation escalates, local authorities
00:27could be called. Meanwhile, employees are getting pushed to their limits. All of us cannot wait for
00:31this movie to be gone. A Minecraft movie follows four misfits who are pulled through a portal into
00:36a cubic world and must embark on a quest back to the real world. At one point, a baby zombie falls
00:42onto the back of a chicken, making a chicken jockey, an extremely rare occurrence in the game, which
00:48prompts fans to erupt with excitement and surprise. Similar to Say When, Captain America successfully
00:54caught Thor's hammer in Avengers Endgame. It seems that once videos of chicken jockey eruptions
00:59started going viral on TikTok over the weekend, the trend spread, particularly among teenage boys.
01:05As for the theater chains themselves, most will likely keep their silence. Sources say they've
01:10learned from past experience that issuing warnings can backfire and prompt more bad behavior. The film
01:16has grossed more than $185 million domestically and $380 million globally in just six days, wildly
01:23outperforming expectations, and even outpacing 2023's video game adaptation, the Super Mario
01:29Brothers movie.
01:32Chicken jockey!
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