Warner Bros. Pictures is granting fans’ wishes: Ryan Coogler’s popular film “Sinners” will return to IMAX theaters for a special limited re-release.
The movie, which premiered over Easter weekend on April 18, has made $48 million and continues to perform well at the box office.
Starting Thursday, May 15, until Wednesday, May 21, “Sinners” will be shown again in nine IMAX theaters across North America, this time in 70mm format. (The movie still runs in theaters but with fewer IMAX showings.)
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The participating theaters include City Walk Stadium 19 + IMAX (Los Angeles), Irvine Spectrum and IMAX (Irvine), Lincoln Square 13 + IMAX (New York), Metreon 16 + IMAX (San Francisco), Indiana State Museum (Indianapolis), Arizona Mills IMAX (Phoenix), Autonation IMAX (Ft. Lauderdale), Webb Chapel IMAX (Dallas), and Colossus IMAX (Toronto).
Audiences have spoken and we listened. If ever a film needed to be experienced in this incredible larger-than-life format, it’s ‘Sinners.’ Ryan has delivered a film that has been embraced by fans who appreciate the craftsmanship that goes into creating a film for this screen-filling format and we wanted to give everyone the opportunity to see it — or see it again — in 70mm IMAX.
Jeff Goldstein, President of Global Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures, said
Sinners features Michael B. Jordan playing twin brothers who return to their hometown in Mississippi after surviving World War I, only to find an even greater evil waiting for them. The film also stars Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O’Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Miller, and Delroy Lindo.
Academy Award-nominated Ryan Coogler wrote and directed the movie, which has been praised by fellow filmmakers like Spike Lee, who called it an “amazing” work and an important film for today’s cinema.
I don’t think this is a horror film. I don’t know exactly what the word is but he invented a new genre. I think we need this film now, too.
Lee said during Carmelo Anthony’s Wave Original “7PM in Brooklyn” podcast
Coogler expressed his gratitude to his “cinematic influences” for inspiring the film, giving special credit to Spike Lee for being part of that inspiration.
I had the gift of the opportunity of making a film inspired by my family and my ancestry, but it was always a film that we wanted to make for audiences, in theaters. We always had our minds on you, the audience, and felt a deep responsibility to entertain you, and move you in the way only cinema can. I believe in cinema. I believe in the theatrical experience. I believe it is a necessary pillar of society. We don’t get to do what we do if you don’t show up. To see your response to the film has reinvigorated me and many others who believe in this art form. And together maybe we can expand the definition of what a blockbuster is, what a horror movie is, and of what an IMAX audience looks like.
Coogler wrote in a letter
Source: Indiewire