“Sinners” will return to Imax theaters in time for Halloween.
The R-rated box office smash, directed by Ryan Coogler and starring Michael B. Jordan, will be back in select locations for one week starting on Oct. 30. This is the second Imax re-release for “Sinners,” which returned to the country’s biggest and brightest screens in May after the film’s initial run was cut short to make room for Marvel’s “Thunderbolts.”
“This limited engagement offers audiences the chance to experience one of the most original and emotionally resonant films to ever reach the big screen in the way Coogler originally envisioned: presented in premium format on Imax 70MM and Imax screens,” Warner Bros. wrote in a press release. “The re-release reunites audiences with a story that spoke volumes when it first premiered—both for its ambitious visual storytelling and for the passion and artistry of its stellar cast and crew.”
“Sinners” opened in April to $48 million at the domestic box office, marking the biggest debut for an original film since Jordan Peele’s “Us” opened to $71 million in 2019. Thanks to sterling reviews and glowing word-of-mouth, “Sinners” earned nearly as much in its second weekend as its first, an extreme rarity for a film that didn’t open around the holiday season. The Warner Bros. release has since generated $278 million in North America and $366 million globally against a $90 million budget. Those outsized results are a testament to Coogler and Jordan’s box office bankability. They also prove that audiences will show up for original ideas.
Jordan plays identical twins Smoke and Stack in “Sinners,” which takes place in the 1930s as the brothers return home to the South and open a juke joint… only for vampires to descend on the small town. Variety‘s chief film critic Owen Gleiberman called “Sinners” a “lavishly serious popcorn movie” and distinguished it as “the rare mainstream horror film that’s about something weighty and soulful: the wages of sin in Black America.”
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