‘Sinners’ Slays Box Office With Incredible Second Weekend Total

Sinners took another bite out of the box office and held onto the top spot for a second straight weekend.

The supernatural vampire thriller from Ryan Coogler earned a projected $45 million, down only 6 percent from its opening weekend total (marking a rare feat), box office tracking company Comscore reported Sunday.

Outside North America, the Warner Bros. release banked another $13.5 million, bringing its worldwide tally to $161.6 million.

Set in the 1930s Jim Crow-era South, Sinners stars Michael B. Jordan as twin brothers Smoke and Stack who return to their Mississippi hometown for a fresh start. After learning how the criminal underworld works from mobsters in Chicago, they plan to open a juke joint for Black folks in the South. But the brothers soon learn evil forces are waiting in the wings.

The cast also includes Hailee Steinfeld, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Saul Williams, Delroy Lindo, Andrene Ward-Hammond, Li Jun Li, Tenaj L. Jackson, and Omar Benson Miller.

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Elsewhere this weekend at the box office, a blast from the past rocketed over the competition and landed behind Sinners on the chart.

Marking its 20th anniversary, a re-release of the George Lucas blockbuster Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith (2005) took second place with $25.2 million. Before this week, the film had already earned $850 million globally, Comscore reported.

Crime thriller The Accountant 2 opened in third place with $24.5 million. Ben Affleck leads the cast as an autistic accountant who doubles as a military-level assassin. He uses his brilliant mind and illegal methods to tackle the unsolved puzzle of a Treasury chief’s murder.

Critics gave the film a 78 percent score out of 100, with some saying it improved on the original. But Adam Graham of the Detroit News called the sequel “scattered.” Still, audiences liked what they saw and handed the Amazon MGM Studios release an “A-” CinemaScore.

Taking fourth place was A Minecraft Movie with $22.7 million Friday through Sunday in its fourth weekend in theaters. Horror film Until Dawn, debuted in fifth place with $8 million.