Ryan Coogler Thanks Fans for Sinners‘ Box-Office Success

Warner Bros. and Ryan Coogler have much to celebrate with the success of the filmmaker’s hit vampire movie. After Sinners‘ opening weekend, the Hollywood Reporter shared that it raked in $48 million domestically, which bodes well for original filmmaking and the studios still game to support it. Sinners was a gamble that Warner Bros. movie heads Pam Abdy and Michael De Luca are seeing pay off. Speaking to THR, De Luca said, “We kind of knew we had the goods just in terms of having watched the director’s cut. But to have the audience validate that— that’s really what’s giving us the most joy today. We’re also happy that as an original swing, it’s worked out and we hope it inspires the other studios to take more original swings because that’s how you get new franchises and keep the industry refreshed.” Warner Bros. boss David Zaslav called the producing team to congratulate the duo—”He was very proud of the group and very happy with the result,” De Luca said—putting to bed recent rumors ... Read full article.