1 week Ago By Jeremy Thomas
Sinners is a legitimate box office hit, topping the charts for a second weekend with an incredible hold. The Ryan Coogler-directed vampire film took home the #1 spot with $45 million. That is a mere 6% drop from last week’s opening, which ended up being $48 million in the actual numbers.
It goes without saying that this is a great hold for the film; in fact, it’s a hold of historic proportions particularly for an R-rated horror movie that heavily overperformed on its opening weekend. You will occasionally get holds this good, but outside of the holiday period it is very rare and particularly so when the film opens as high as it did. So how did Sinners pull it off? The answer is simple: it expanded its audience.
While last week’s demos for the film skewed 57% male, this week’s shifted to 56% women. That’s a matter of more and more people discovering the film as it racks up more buzz; that record-setting A CinemaScore is doing it wonders in terms of the word of mouth. Warner Bros.
is breathing a sigh of relief as Sinners is now a sure box office hit, even against its hefty $90 million production budget. It has grossed $122.5 million domestically (already a 2.
55 multiple from its opening weekend) and $161.6 million worldwide. It is very hard to see this film closing at less than $200 million in the US at this point and it will probably climb higher than that, even with big blockbuster competition coming next weekend.
Coming in at #2 was the re-release of . Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith , scoring big numbers with $25.2 million.
It marks one of the highest weekends for a re-released film and tops all previous Star Wars re-releases with the exception of the 1997 return of A New Hope . That film returned to $35.9 million for its 20th anniversary, but that was also another time and the first time Star Wars had been on the big screen in 16 years at that point.
Revenge of the Sith may have been (like all the prequels) polarizing when it came out, but fan sentiment on the film is high now that the kids who loved the prequels are grown up. This weekend’s re-release pushed Episode III past the $400 million mark domestically; it now has $405.5 million domestically and $891.
2 million worldwide. It jumped from #57 to #47 on the all-time domestic gross list and will continue to climb higher through its re-release. The Accountant 2 had to settle for #3 thanks to Revenge of the Sith overperforming, but it was still okay with $24.
5 million. That’s about on par with the $24.7 million that The Accountant opened to in October of 2016 and reps the best start for a film headlined by Ben Affleck since Justice League bowed to $93.
8 million in November of 2017. The sequel entered the weekend looking to be in a good position, with positive buzz via a decent 78% aggregated average on Rotten Tomatoes. Audiences liked it with an A- CinemaScore and a 92% RT audience rating ( The Accountant had an A and a 72% RT audience score, with a 53% RT critic score).
Its opening is on the high end of the $22 million to $25 million it was expected to start with. All that said, this might look like a worrying start for the sequel. While The Accountant was a box office success, it also cost half of the sequel’s $80 million budget.
But the key here is that this is produced by Amazon MGM and is looking to make a splash on Prime Video. Amazon has said that films like this only have to cover their marketing and distribution costs to ultimately turn a profit. As it currently stands, the film seems likely to pass $75 million domestically and should be in fine shape.
It added $13.7 million overseas for a $38.2 million worldwide start.
A Minecraft Movie continues to do well, adding $22.7 million to its coffers in its fourth weekend. That’s a drop of just 44%.
The film has now grossed $380 million stateside and $816.6 million worldwide, making it a massive success against a $150 million budget. At this point it should be closing out in the $440 million to $450 million range.
This weekend’s new horror release was Until Dawn and it opened right about where it was expected to with $8 million. That’s an unremarkable opening for the very loose adaptation of the survival horror video game and is on par with the $8.3 million for February’s slasher Heart Eyes , as well as the $7.
4 million of this month’s tech thriller Drop . Until Dawn wasn’t exactly primed for box office success. While the video game it’s based on is very popular, it’s no Minecraft and the heavy diversions the film takes from the original game’s plot (it’s an original story in the same universe) was bound to be a turnoff for some fans of the game.
Until Dawn also had the misfortune of being up against the runaway success of Sinners which is sucking up all the oxygen for horror. The film’s reactions haven’t been terrible, but they certainly haven’t helped either. The RT critic aggregate is a mediocre 53%, while the CinemaScore is a C+ and the RT audience score is a 70%.
Those numbers are the kinds of metrics that will drive a lot of audiences into waiting to see it at home. But the film isn’t a bomb either; it added $10.1 million overseas for an $18.
1 million worldwide start against a $15 million budget. If the international grosses hold this should end up being a decent enough success for the studio; the domestic total should close out between $20 million and $25 million. With Easter Sunday past us, The King of Kings took a widely expected drop.
Angel Studios’ animated faith-based film dove 77% to $4 million in its third weekend. Don’t cry for it though, because Angel has a hit here. As of now the film has $54.
5 million domestically – good enough to be the second-best animated film of 2025 behind Dog Man – and $58.9 million worldwide. It will probably close out with around $65 million in the US and be a sizable hit.
The Amateur was down 46% in its third weekend to gross $3.8 million. That puts the 20th Century Studios’ action-thriller at $33.
9 million in the US and $80.5 million worldwide against a $60 million budget. The film is still going to need those overseas numbers to keep coming in if it was to avoid losing money, but it will at worst be a minor money loser and should end its domestic run at around $40 million.
A24’s Warfare slipped 45% in its third weekend to tally up $2.7 million. The war film now has $21.
8 million domestically and $24.1 million worldwide against a $20 million budget; it will find its profit on home viewing. The US domestic total will close at around $25 million to $28 million or so.
A24 had a second film in theaters this week as The Legend of Ochi expanded to 1,153 theaters for a $1.4 million start. Much like Warfare , this little fantasy adventure film will find any profit on premium VOD and streaming.
It has $1.5 million domestically against a $10 million budget and won’t make it above $4 million barring plans to expand, which doesn’t seem likely. The final spot in the top 10 was taken by the concert film Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII .
The 4K restoration of iconic band’s 1972 performance movie grossed $1.3 million over the weekend after opening on Thursday. It now has $2.
6 million domestically and $6.5 million worldwide. Next weekend we will see a new #1 as Marvel’s Thunderbolts* looks to gross between $70 million and $80 million.
It’s the only new wide release next frame. BOX OFFICE TOP TEN (Three-Day Domestic Numbers) 1. Sinners – $45 million ($122.
5 million total, $161.6 million WW) 2. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith – $25.
2 million ($405.5 million total, $891.2 million WW) 3.
The Accountant 2 – $24.5 million ($24.5 million total, $38.
2 million WW) 4. A Minecraft Movie – $22.7 million ($380 million total, $816.
6 million WW) 5. Until Dawn – $8 million ($8 million total, $18.1 million WW) 3.
The King of Kings – $4 million ($54.5 million total, $58.9 million WW) 4.
The Amateur – $3.8 million ($33.9 million total, $80.
6 million WW) 5. Warfare – $2.7 million ($21.
8 million total, $24.1 million WW) 9. The Legend of Ochi – $1.
4 million ($1.5 million total, $1.5 million WW) 10.
Pink Floyd: Live At Pompeii – $1.3 million ($2.6 million total, $6.
5 million WW).
