‘Sinners’ tops North American box office for second week
[LOS ANGELES] Ryan Coogler’s 1930s vampire thriller Sinners sunk its teeth into another huge weekend at the North American box office, taking in US$45 million, industry estimates showed on Sunday (Apr 27).
Michael B Jordan (Black Panther, Creed) stars as twins in Coogler’s supernatural horror flick set in Mississippi, which has a near-perfect 98 per cent 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 US$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 US$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 US$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 hit man brother.
Video game adaptation A Minecraft Movie from Warner Bros, starring Jack Black and Jason Momoa, finished in fourth place with US$22.7 million.
It has so far grossed US$380 million in North America – the top release so far this year – and another US$436 million internationally, putting it on track to rake in a billion dollars or more.
In fifth place was new Sony horror film Until Dawn at US$8 million.
Rounding out the top 10 were The King of Kings (US$4 million); The Amateur (US$3.8 million); Warfare (US$2.7 million); The Legend of Ochi (US$1.4 million); and Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (US$1.3 million). AFP
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