In another big win for Warner Bros., Ryan Coogler’s new horror movie, Sinners, starring Michael B. Jordan and Hailee Steinfeld overperforms and tops the weekend box office.
WB’s Minecraft also smashes past $700 million and still has a chance of hitting that magic billion-dollar number mark.
Sinners box office
Regarding Sinners, the estimates were all over the place. They were actually as low as $30M at one time, and the high was around $45M.
However, thanks to great word-of-mouth, the fans showed up, and Sinners opened to over $48M. Add another $15.5M from the foreign gross, and Sinners is currently at $63.5M worldwide.
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Its Rotten Tomatoes Score is still through the roof with a 98% score from the critics; likewise, the fan score is at 97%. The CinemaScore is also the best for a horror movie in over 35 years with an “A.” The IMDb rating is a solid 8.2.
Grosses
- Domestic (75.6%): $48,007,468
- International (24.4%): $15,500,000
- Worldwide: $63,507,468
Weekend:
- $48,007,468
Daily:
- Apr 18 (Friday): $19,202,349
- Apr 19 (Saturday): $16,501,469 –14.1%
- Apr 20 (Easter Sunday): $12,303,650 –25.4%
A Minecraft Movie box office
A Minecraft Movie was at first expected to take the #1 spot again this weekend for a third time, but as the weekend progressed, Minecraft and Sinners flipped and switched places.
It was originally estimated that Minecraft would bring in around $45M; the flick brought in $40.5M this past weekend, coming in at #2 overall. Definitely nothing to complain about as Minecraft has now passed $717M globally.
Things have slowed down a bit since that over-the-top opening weekend that beat out Barbie and Super Mario. In the same timeframe, Super Mario brought in over $390M domestically, while Minecraft has brought in nearly $344M. Super Mario finished with over $1.36 billion worldwide ($574.9 domestic; $785.9M foreign).
Grosses:
- Domestic (47.9%): $343,824,380
- International (52.1%): $374,000,000
- Worldwide: $717,824,380
Weekend:
- Apr 4–6 (Week 1): $162,753,003
- Apr 11–13 (Week 1): $78,503,124 –51.8%
- Apr 18–20 (Week 2): $40,497,865 –48.4%
