'Sinners' tops American box office for 2nd week

Ryan Coogler's 1930s vampire thriller "Sinners" sunk its teeth into another huge weekend at the North American box office, taking in $45 million, industry estimates showed Sunday.
Michael B. Jordan ("Black Panther," "Creed") stars as twins in Coogler's supernatural horror flick set in Mississippi, which has a near-perfect 98 percent 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 $122.5 million.
Sinners was down a miniscule 6% from its Easter holiday launch, the smallest drop in any genre since “Avatar” in 2009. Worldwide, the movie has now made $161.6 million.
In second place was the 20th anniversary re-release of Disney's "

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-- Revenge of the Sith," with a whopping $25.2 million, according to data from Exhibitor Relations. Internationally, it earned $17 million from 34 territories, giving it a $42.2 million global weekend. It's one of the top grossing re-releases ever.

Ben Affleck's "The Accountant 2" debuted in third place at $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. The Gavin O'Connor directed the film, which played in 3,610 theatres in North America. Audiences gave it a promising A- CinemaScore.
Video game adaptation "A Minecraft Movie" from Warner Bros., starring Jack Black and Jason Momoa, finished in fourth place with $22.7 million.
It has so far grossed $380 million in North America -- the top release so far this year -- and another $436 million internationally, putting it on track to rake in a billion dollars.
The “Minecraft” and “Sinners” wins have meant a huge boost for the April box office, which is up 102% from April 2024. The annual box office is also up over 10% from last year after running at a double-digit deficit in March. And this is all happening right before the industry’s summer movie season kicks off on May 2 with Disney’s “Thunderbolts*.”
In fifth place was new video game adaptation “Until Dawn” which also opened this weekend to an estimated $8 million. Sony Pictures released the film, starring Ella Rubin and Michael Cimino, which has earned $18.1 million globally.
Rounding out the top 10 were:
"The King of Kings" ($4 million)
"The Amateur" ($3.8 million)
"Warfare" ($2.7 million)
"The Legend of Ochi" ($1.4 million)
"Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii" ($1.3 million)