Box-office: Sinners are a hit and dethrone Minecraft, which moves from the billion dollars

Batman V Superman,, Super Mario Bros, the film,, Furious 7… Easter weekend has been the opportunity for the studios for a long time to bring the public to theaters with spectacular films.

And the 2025 vintage has not deviated from the rule with the beautiful start Sinnerswhich tears the first place from the ranking from a Minecraft losing speed. We take stock.

An original film (finally) at the top of the ranking

It is not every day that an original film ends at the top of the American box office. With 48 million dollars garnered during its four-day inaugural weekend, Sinners from Ryan Coogler (Black Panther,, Creed) sign a start -up and bring a little fresh air to a Hollywood obsessed with suites and adaptations.

If the result of the film carried by Michael B. Jordan and Hailee Steinfeld is of course not up to the Marckbusters Marvel and Company, its launch is better than other original quality films before him. For comparison, it signs a start -up similar to that of Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood From Quentin Tarantino (41 million in 3 days), which had completed his career at 142 million in the United States.

Above all, Sinners Offer (finally!) Relative success to an “author film” produced by Warner Bros, after the resounding failures of Mickey 17 by Bong Joon-Ho and Joker: Folia with two of Todd Philips. Good news for the next F1 With Brad Pitt (release on June 25), also distributed under Warner Pavilion.

Sinners is also well received by the public and criticism, and should benefit from a good word of mouth. It will be necessary to wait to see the detention in the second week, but the film has already totaled $ 63 million worldwide, and can hope for an end of career beyond 200 million worldwide. Enough to absorb its budget of 90 million, and to reconcile spectators with new ideas.

While he had been the undisputed king of the box office for two weekends, Minecraft, the film falls from his throne this week. The adaptation of video games gleaks additional 40.4 million, but clearly marks it on American soil with a decline of 48% of its audience.

It is not a drama in itself, the film being already a box with a global cumulation at 716 million (including 343 in the United States), but this little stopover could make it miss the billion bar at the end of the race, when it only has Japan as a big international outing. Minecraft Will he join the group closed billionaire films? Answer next week.

In the rest of the box office, the biblical animated film The King of Kings Continues its pretty journey, and totals nearly $ 50 million worldwide. Not bad for a feature film in the small budget of 15 million. The thriller The amateur Already loses 53% of his audience in the second week, and painfully reached the 27 million in the United States, too little to leave his brand.

US box office from 18 to 21 April 2025 (estimates)