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Box Office: Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan’s ‘Sinners’ Targeting Solid $45 Million Opening Weekend
"Sinners" is aiming for $45 million in its box office debut. Will that be enough to dethrone "A Minecraft Movie"?
In a sign of Warner Bros.’ confidence in Coogler, the studio not only shelled out $90 million for production costs (a huge price tag for original, R-rated fare) but arranged a rare agreement for the filmmaker to eventually own the film rights after 25 years. Set in the 1930s, “Sinners” follows twin brothers (Jordan plays the identical siblings called Smoke and Stack) who return to their hometown in the South after World War I, only to be faced with a greater evil. Variety’s chief film critic Owen Gleiberman praised the movie as “a lavishly serious popcorn movie.” In his review, he wrote, “It’s a richly imagined, vibrantly acted portrait of a Deep South community in the early 1930s.
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