Sinners Has A Fantastic Opening Weekend As Michael B. Jordan's Vampire Film Dethrones A Minecraft Movie At The Box Office


Sinners Has A Fantastic Opening Weekend As Michael B. Jordan

Published 21 April 2025 It's no secret that established intellectual properties have taken extreme prominence in modern Hollywood. While original fill still get made, they receive far less support and push than projects that already have a built in audience – be they adaptations, remakes or sequels. The obvious reality is that it's a lot harder to sell audiences something new compared to something with which they are already familiar... but that just makes this weekend's box office win for Ryan Coogler's Sinners all the sweeter. While Jared Hess' A Minecraft Movie has dominated in theaters for most of April, the new crime/horror film starring Michael B. Jordan in a widely praised dual role arrived in wide release on Friday, and two days later, it is sitting in the number one spot of the weekend's domestic chart. Check out the full Top 10 below and join me after for analysis. Sinners Has Far And Away The Biggest Opening For An Original Movie In 2025 Based on an extremely popular video game, A Minecraft Movie had the biggest opening weekend of 2025 thus far in the first weekend of April ($162.8 million), and while Julius Onah's Captain America: Brave New World didn't exactly rock the world when it came out in February, it still put up big numbers in its launch by nature of it being a Marvel Cinematic Universe title ($88.8 million). Now, sitting behind those two IP titles in the ranking of the biggest debuts of the year is Sinners, which can be viewed as a huge win in just about every respect after bringing in $45.6 million (via The Numbers). Prior to the arrival of Ryan Coogler's new genre-mashing epic, the biggest arrival for an original movie in 2025 was Lawrence Lamont's One Of Them Days, which made just $11.8 million when it made its premiere in January. It's not a common occurrence to see a success like this in 21st century Hollywood – but the horror genre has been a great vehicle, and given his track record including Fruitvale Station, Creed and the two Black Panther movies, Coogler's name has been established as one audiences can trust for a good time (one can throw the star power of Michael B. Jordan into the mix as a key part part of the equation too). Sinners has earned widespread critical acclaim, but now audiences are loving it as well. This is perfectly illustrated by the fact that surveys distributed by CinemaScore returned an "A" grade, which isn't an easy thing for a horror movie to do. Professionals and general audiences are in sync about the greatness of Sinners, and that has now been reflected in the box office earnings.