Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is being sold as a horror film, but let’s not kid ourselves — it isn’t. Horror is supposed to terrify, to drip with dread, to make you feel unsafe. Sinners never gets there. The vampires are polite, the finale swerves into a Tarantino-style shootout with the KKK, and along the way the script spends more time joking about oral sex than it does building fear. Domestically, it’s a box office hit with nearly $280 million, but overseas it fizzled. Because here’s the truth: Sinners isn’t horror. It’s a gothic-flavored drama that mistakes style and sex talk for scares.
The $500M Weekend That Proves Theaters Aren’t Dead—They’ve Evolved
Half a billion dollars in one weekend. Not bad for an industry everyone keeps insisting is dying. But the real story isn’t just the money—it’s how theaters are transforming into premium-first, event-driven experiences. From Sinners to Stitch, audiences are choosing spectacle, scale, and nostalgia over originality—and studios are more than happy to oblige.
Ted Sarandos Says Theaters Are Dead. Sinners Just Said Otherwise.
There’s this ongoing argument right now between people like Netflix’s Ted Sarandos and the diehard defenders of movie theaters. Sarandos went up on stage at the TIME100 Summit and basically said what he’s been hinting at for years: movie theaters are an outmoded idea. Not dead exactly, but fading. People would rather just stay home, … Continue reading Ted Sarandos Says Theaters Are Dead. Sinners Just Said Otherwise.
Stop Comparing “Sinners” to Tarantino’s Movie — It’s Not 2019 Anymore
There’s this weird obsession online right now with dragging The New York Times over its coverage of Sinners—Ryan Coogler’s Southern Gothic horror epic that just opened at number one with a $48 million domestic haul. People are pissed that the Times called it a “box office success (with a big asterisk)” and then launched into … Continue reading Stop Comparing “Sinners” to Tarantino’s Movie — It’s Not 2019 Anymore
Why Sinners Might Be the Most Important Film of 2025
Ryan Coogler is walking so the rest of Hollywood can run—and most of the industry is too busy running numbers to notice. It’s kind of amazing what one filmmaker can do by simply betting on himself. With Sinners, Coogler didn’t just make a hit movie—he made a statement. The film is already crushing it with … Continue reading Why Sinners Might Be the Most Important Film of 2025
Why Hollywood Is Sweating Over Sinners Before It Even Opens
Ryan Coogler’s Sinners hasn’t even opened yet, and the knives are already out. Not from critics—those folks are lining up with glowing reviews and a 99% Rotten Tomatoes score to prove it—but from within the very system that greenlit the movie in the first place. The word on the street is that Sinners needs to … Continue reading Why Hollywood Is Sweating Over Sinners Before It Even Opens
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