Box Office Report for the Week of April 20

First and foremost, happy Easter to all. I hope you had a great weekend with your friends, loved ones, or perhaps kept it quiet. No matter how you chose to celebrate the holiday, maybe you decided to see a movie, which many of you did for Ryan Coogler‘s Sinners, which was definitely arranged to open this weekend, on Good Friday of all days.

Perhaps all of you need Jesus, but in the meantime, we should rejoice at the fact that we have the biggest opening weekend for an ORIGINAL FILM post-COVID with $45.6 million, and a global tally of $61 million. The budget is relatively small, and the film will definitely leg out in the coming weeks, considering how Coogler (and all of us) have been hyping up the IMAX experience as an integral part of the viewing experience. In fact, IMAX accounted for 20% of the weekend’s box office gross, with $11.1 million estimated to be made out of those screens. Incredible.

Some trades are trying to paint this historic opening as a failure, because it didn’t make its money back in a weekend, but this is a major win for not only Warner Bros. (and execs Pam Abdy and Michael De Luca, who now have two back-to-back hits with A Minecraft Movie, still making insane numbers after slightly dropping to second place this weekend), but for Ryan Coogler’s pedigree as a singular auteur. Whether or not it will be nominated for any Awards is a discussion we can all have another time. For now, we should be telling as many people as possible to see this movie on the biggest screen they can and to experience something they’ll likely never witness again at such a scale.

Funnily enough, a movie called SINNERS made far more money than the animated Biblical epic about Jesus this Easter weekend, despite The King of Kings legging better than the post-Sound of Freedom Angel Studios library. In fact, it will likely outgross that film by the time it finishes its theatrical run, having already made $45.3 million worldwide.

After a relatively slow and uneventful start to 2025, it’s great to see audiences coming back to the movies and seeing a diversified slate of titles. There is truly something for everyone, and it looks like the momentum will continue going into the summer, with great titles like Thunderbolts*, Final Destination: Bloodlines, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, and many more.

Are the movies back? Here’s hoping!

Here is the full list of the top ten films of the weekend:

1. Sinners (Warner Bros. Pictures): $45.6M – 3,308 theatres
2. A Minecraft Movie (Warner Bros. Pictures): $41.3M (-47.3%) – 4,032 theatres
3. The King of Kings (Angel Studios): $17.2M (-11%) – 3,535 theatres
4. The Amateur (Disney): $7.2M (-51%) – 3,400 theatres
5. Warfare (A24): $4.8M (-41.6%) – 2,670 theatres
6. Drop (Universal): $3.3M (-55%) – 3,089 theatres
7. Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can’t Sing (GKIDS): $2.76M – 800 theatres
8. Pride & Prejudice – 20th Anniversary Re-Release (Universal): $2.7M – 1,393 theatres
9. The Chosen: Last Supper – Part 3 (Fathom Events): $1.8M (-71.5%) – 653 theatres
10. Snow White (Disney): $1.1M (-60%) – 1,650 theatres

Source: Comscore