Ryan Coogler’s 1930s vampire thriller Sinners sunk its teeth into another huge weekend at the North American box office, taking in $45 million, industry estimates showed Sunday.
Michael B. Jordan (Black Panther, Creed) stars as twins in Coogler’s supernatural horror flick set in Mississippi, which has a near-perfect 98 percent fresh rating on movie review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.
Hailee Steinfeld and Delroy Lindo also star in the music-driven Warner Bros. film, which has a cumulative domestic take of $122.5 million.
In second place was the 20th anniversary re-release of Disney’s Star Wars: Episode III–Revenge of the Sith, with a whopping $25.2 million, according to data from Exhibitor Relations.
The result, one of the best ever for a re-release, “clearly demonstrates the audience and fan passion for this beloved franchise,” said Comscore senior media analyst Paul Dergarabedian.
Ben Affleck’s The Accountant 2 debuted in third place at $24.5 million. The Amazon MGM Studios film stars Affleck as a neurodivergent math genius with ties to the criminal underworld and Jon Bernthal as his hitman brother.
Video game adaptation A Minecraft Movie from Warner Bros., starring Jack Black and Jason Momoa, finished in fourth place with $22.7 million.
It has so far grossed $380 million in North America—the top release so far this year—and another $436 million internationally, putting it on track to rake in a billion dollars. In fifth place was new Sony horror film Until Dawn at $8 million.
Rounding out the top 10 were The King of Kings with $4 million, The Amateur with $3.8 million, Warfare with $2.7 million, The Legend of Ochi with $1.4 million, and Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii with $1.3 million. AFP
