Sinners was released on April 18, 2025, by Warner Bros. Pictures and has met with positive critical response, holding a 97% Rotten Tomatoes rating. The musical horror action film is penned and directed by Ryan Coogler, and it's produced by him, Zinzi Coogler, and Sev Ohanian. Here's the official synopsis:
"Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back."
The film continues to do well at the box office. So let us explore how it has done at the domestic ticket window.
Sinners' domestic box-office numbers explored
Sinners debuted with $48 million, earning its place as the best opening on Easter for an R-rated film. After three weeks of its theatrical run, the film has minted $250 million at the global box office. Deadline has reported that the film will earn $22 million by the end of its fourth week at the box office. This will take the tally to $215.3 million after the film touched the 200 million mark.
Interestingly, Sinners is the fourth R-rated film in the horror genre to cross the $200 million domestically. It is the third title of 2025 to reach $200 million after Captain America: Brave New World (that grossed $200 million) and A Minecraft Movie (that minted $401 million). The period horror has successfully managed to recover its production budget of around $90 to $100 million.
More about Sinners
Sinners is about twin brothers who return to their hometown of the Mississippi Delta in 1932, where they encounter vampires. The cast of the film is,
- Michael B. Jordan as Elijah Moore aka Smoke/Elias Moore aka Stack
- Miles Caton as Sammie Moore aka Preacher Boy
- Hailee Steinfeld as Mary
- Jack O'Connell as Remmick
- Wunmi Mosaku as Annie
- Jayme Lawson as Pearline
- Omar Miller as Cornbread
- Delroy Lindo as Delta Slim
- Peter Dreimanis as Bert
In a chat with Interview Magazine, Ryan Coogler revealed that the film began because of his relationship with his uncle. He said,
"For me, the movie started with my relationship with my uncle who is from Mississippi. He was the older male figure in my life. The only music he would listen to is the blues, bro. We was listening to everything from Too Short to Tony! Toni! Toné!, but he would only listen to the blues. I would sit there with him and he would talk about Mississippi and how he came up and how that influenced everything that we was on now. When I was working on Creed in 2015, he passed away. I had already made a film about the Bay with Fruitvale, I was making a movie about Philly, I made a couple of movies about Wakanda, and now I’m coming back home in a different way. I’m looking at the American South, which is, outside of the continent of Africa, where Black people call home. Where was your people at before they were in Akron?"
Have you seen Sinners?
Stay tuned to Soap Central for more such stories.
Love movies? Try our Box Office Game and Movie Grid Game to test your film knowledge and have some fun!

Your perspective matters!
Start the conversation