Ryan Coogler’s spooky movie Sinners is doing really well at the movie theaters since it came out in the U.S. on April 18, 2025. The movie stars Michael B. Jordan (the guy from Creed) playing two characters, and it has already made $55.8 million in the U.S. and another $75.5 million from other countries.
On its first Monday, Sinners made $7.8 million — that’s the second-best Monday ever for a scary movie rated R. Only the movie It from 2017 did better. Sinners even beat World War Z, which made $7.6 million on its first Monday, and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, which made $6.2 million after a big $111 million opening weekend.
What’s cool is that a big part of its weekend money came from special screens like IMAX and other premium formats. These types of screens made up 45% of its $48 million weekend total. IMAX alone brought in 19%, and PLFS (another fancy format) brought in 22%.
Advertisement Sinners is the first movie to use IMAX cameras since Oppenheimer (by Christopher Nolan) in 2023. People are loving the movie, so it’s probably going to make even more money soon. One reason is that Tuesdays with cheap tickets often bring in more viewers. For example, It made 31% more money on its first Tuesday, and the movie Us from 2019 went up by 33% on its first Tuesday.
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In a special interview with IndieWire, the director of Warner Bros.’ scary movie Sinners talked about where the idea for the movie came from. The story is about twin brothers named Smoke and Stack, both played by Michael B. Jordan. They open a music club in a small town in Mississippi during the 1930s. The club is meant to be a safe place for Black people who work hard in the cotton fields and want to stay away from the Ku Klux Klan. But things go wrong on opening night when three Irish vampire musicians show up.
The director, Ryan Coogler, said he really loves Irish folk music and so does his family. He noticed that African American and Irish people have something in common — they both have strong traditions with music. In the movie, the vampire bad guy named Remmick (played by Jack O’Connell) uses Irish folk music to control people and make them do what he wants. Coogler said he used this music to make Remmick seem like a smart and interesting villain, and to add real history to the story.
Coogler also wanted Remmick to feel like he wasn’t from just one time or place. He said: “He came from a time before these ideas about race even existed in the world he arrived in.” In one part of the movie, Remmick talks to the people in the juke joint about how Ireland was once taken over, trying to show he understands the pain that the Black characters feel too.
Sinners is currently playing in theaters across the U.S.
Source: IndieWire