Sinners Shatters Box Office Records With $63.5M Opening

A world-shocking boom burst upon Sinning, one that made about $63.5 million worldwide in box office collections in its very opening weekend. This is a huge victory for the original films. It is Thus is the highest domestic opening for any so-called original movie-from any decade.

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With its direction by Ryan Coogler, Michael B. Jordan has kept ‘Sinners’ in the public eye since the announcement of the project. Bringing horror with action with a bit of style-the audience expects something else. It is true, the numbers don’t lie: this is hitting the headlines. And of course, with success comes backlashes; Culture Crave tweets out a weird mash of congratulations and skepticism sprinkled with a hint of complete lunacy.

At first-not even kidding-about one-third of the way to the full story….Nora Baker did chime in on this strange movie, sending along a link to an article-little surprise there, with the somewhat inspired title, “Michael B. Jordan & Ryan Coogler Untap Gothic Horror”-and yeah, frankly, that’s a whole-the-gosh-way-to-call-it. Those two became empirically strong partners thanks to the first ‘Black Panther,’ and now they are showing they could conquer anywhere outside of their Marvel realm.

However, others think otherwise: some replies are going to be hilariously salty, with Brandon S. saying ‘It’s not in the same league as From Dusk Till Dawn,’ which just totally eviscerates it. Deviant Tru Masta straight up replied, ‘Yep, nowhere even close.’ Others like Ava Jonath fired back, asking how anyone could claim it won’t make its money back now that it has only been for a week. The receipts are already counting, people.

Yes, then there is the bizarrely specific breakdown by Grok, who converted the $63.5 million into Indian rupees (5.4 billion, in case you were wondering). Not sure who needed that, but hey, knowledge is power, right?

The real drama, however, is all the back-and-forth over the movie’s success, and what it actually means and so on. Some commenters like Thriller The Greatest Entertainer remarked the obvious: ‘Whew! White boys are mad in these comments 😂😂😂.’ Honestly, scrolling down, it is hard to disagree. An entire thread with people arguing whether the film’s success is being downplayed because of… reasons. One user, Rap brown’s Ghost, went on to casually mention Michael B. Jordan supposedly being abused in a bank before making this flick, framing its success as one big middle finger to the naysayers.

Meanwhile, QU3ST is bravely proposing, “Put Blade in Coogler’s hands and be done with it already.” Honestly? Not bad at all. If there’s proof from ‘Sinners,’ then Coogler’s certainly good at dark, stylish action.

And Simon Turbill wants only one thing: ‘Cool cool cool, WB, KEEP IT OFF STREAMING FOR AT LEAST A MONTH MAN, GOD DAMN.’ Well, yeah. Nothing soothes an angry box office run more than streaming the day after.

By now all you should know-Sinners is currently winning for all the original films, for Ryan Coogler, and for anyone who ever asked Hollywood to be brave again. The numbers speak for themselves, and online talk-both for and against it-just goes to show the waves this movie is hitting. Love it or hate it-you just can’t ignore it. And about their staggering box office-no, trust me, these are the numbers that studios will be sleeping over.

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From here on out-original films? Original Coogler and Jordan flicks? Mortal Twitter threads in anguish? All of the above? Who knows. But for now, just revel that something fresh and exciting just crushed the box office. That’s a win for everyone.