Box Office: ‘Sinners’ Sinks Teeth Into Huge $45.7M, ‘Revenge of the Sith’ Edges Past ‘Accountant 2’

The weekend box office is on fire, with ticket sales up more than 120 percent over the same frame last year.

via: EW

For the second weekend running, the blood-soaked period horror film starring Michael B. Jordan, Jack O'Connell, Delroy Lindo, and Hailee Steinfeld ran laps around its competition before crossing the finish line first. Sinners grossed $45 million domestically in its second weekend after opening last weekend to $45.6 million, representing a vanishingly insignificant drop of only 6 percent.

Compare that to the most profitable film of the year at the domestic box office so far — A Minecraft Movie — which dropped 50 percent from opening ($157 million) to second weekend ($80.6 million). Any concern that Sinners may have struggled to recoup its estimated $100 million budget can officially be put to bed, as the film walks away from the global box office this weekend with a $161 million gross.

A Minecraft Movie still ranks within the box office top five in its fourth week of release, grossing $22.7 million domestically. The big-screen video game adaptation starring Jason Momoa and Jennifer Coolidge surpassed Sony's own video game adaptation, the road trip horror Until Dawn, which premiered to $8 million. And Minecraft was surpassed by The Accountant 2, Ben Affleck, screenwriter Bill Dubuque, and director Gavin O'Connor's sequel to their 2016 actioner that earned the third spot with a $24.5 million premiere.

One of the most interesting stories to come from the weekend numbers centers on the film that made a surprise re-entrance to the box office at No. 2. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, which premiered in 2005 and grossed nearly $900 million across its theatrical run, is back at the multiplex and going for that billion-dollar milestone.

The success of the concluding chapter of the Star Wars prequel trilogy's rerelease marks one of the top-grossing rerelease weekends in domestic industry history, behind Titanic's 2012 3D rerelease, The Lion King's 2011 3D rerelease, and several others.

The same players on the domestic box office top 5 return for the global box office top 5, only taking on different roles.

A Minecraft Movie narrowly outperformed Sinners globally, earning $60.5 million to the latter's $58.5 million, bringing Minecraft's global total to a staggering $816.5 million. Both films are currently playing in upwards of 70 global territories.

Revenge of the Sith was released in theaters in half as many markets, but still won the No. 3 spot with a $42.2 million take. The Accountant 2 shuffled from the third spot down to the fourth globally, earning $38.2 million — just a hair shy of half its estimated budget of $80 million before marketing. Finally, Until Dawn reprises its spot in fifth place, grossing $18 million globally.

Next weekend's premiere squad is comprised of a clear contender for the top spot, several intriguing indies with a fair shot of recouping their modest budgets, and one title with a troubling history.

Marvel's Thunderbolts*, starring Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, is the only film slated for upcoming release that has the potential juice to topple Sinners' reign. The first film following the unlikely alliance of several MCU antiheroes, first announced in 2022, will release alongside the Nicolas Cage-starring independent thriller The Surfer, Chloë Sevigny-starring adaptation of the Francois Sagan novel Bonjour Tristesse, previously adapted by Otto Preminger in 1958, and the Alec Baldwin-starring Western Rust.

That's right — that Rust. The film, whose production saw Baldwin involved in an accidental on-set shooting that took the life of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, is finally getting a theatrical release. Following Hutchins' death, the film's armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to 18 months in prison. Baldwin's involuntary manslaughter case was dismissed in December.