If your kids want to go to see the new Minecraft movie, you are going to have to reserve 100 minutes of your time and buy a ticket yourself. The Sturgeon Bay Cinema 6 is among the many movie theaters worldwide instituting new restrictions because of a viral trend where the screenings get trashed during specific scenes in the film. As a result of this trend, Sturgeon Bay Cinema 6 is not allowing anyone under the age of 18 to enter the screenings without an adult, and popcorn and other concessions are not being sold to minors. Moviegoers who try to bring the trend to Sturgeon Bay will be kicked out, per a social media post from last week.
The movie’s director, Jared Hess, has not been sympathetic to the movie theaters’ reaction to the scene, including the police being called and one patron at a Utah theater unveiling a live chicken during the film’s “chicken jockey” scene. While he said that those attending should “be mindful of the enjoyment of other cinema-goers,” he also told Entertainment Weekly, "It’s weird when you’re having too much fun, and the cops get called.” "A Minecraft Movie" made more than $550 million globally at the box office over its opening weekend.
