Movie News: Ryan Coogler & Michael B. Jordan - SINNERS - jim crow era vampire flick (SPOILERS OPEN!!!)

Off the top of the head I think I could say it's a top 10 vampire movie.
In no particular order :

Interview with a Vampire
Lost Boys
Fright Night
Let the Right One In
After Dark
30 Days of Night
From Dusk till Dawn
Nosferatu
Maybe Salem's Lot or Blade

Damn that is a DAMN good list

Damn good.

I feel.like you forgetting some but that is almost perfect.

Maybe Bram stoker Dracula?

Shadow of the vampire?
 
@playahaitian this is the rpx layout
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Disregard the blackedout seats. It's a showing for tomorrow. Just trying to give you an idea of the size
 
Yeah, he sees things from a white male liberal perspective but he's a bright dude. We had a long chat after the Black Panther screening and he was catching a lot of the allegory right from jump.
You'll notice none of the white reviewers thought to see traces of Idlewild in this movie. Most of them don't know it. During one of the juke joint scenes, you'll catch it but then Ryan goes Super Saiyan with it. You can't have a deep dive review of this movie without spoilers. I know how Jeremy works, so I know he was probably just trying to avoid any spoilers up front. He might do a spoiler review but he probably won't, since its not a Marvel, DC or video game movie.
It's never going to hit them the same way. Some folks have a hard time, even unconsciously, reading or watching stories where the heroes don't look like them. They can't put their finger on it, but something feels off. It's good but they don't know what the fuss is all about. That's why I always seek out Black critics regarding projects like this.
Many, if not most white liberals can't help themselves. White supremacy is their core. They don't have a true, "This land is your land this land is my land," kind of outlook. They still see us and our work as less than.

Black people can watch friends, three's company, Big bang theory and tons of other white shows with no black representation and thoroughly enjoy it, no cap, no sauce. We can see it and love and respect it for what it is, but white people, particularly white liberals that pretend to be cool that too many get a pass to come to the picnic and they show their true colors

Far too many white people don't see themselves represented and automatically a percentage of their brain goes on ignore mode. They miss out on so much because they are intentionally closed-minded to the culture of anything but their own.

I can't begin to name the amount of white movies and TV shows I watched that didn't have a single black person throughout their entire run and I enjoyed it, enjoyed the writing enjoyed the acting enjoyed the art and respecting it for what it was, but them? I pity them
 
Many, if not most white liberals can't help themselves. White supremacy is their core. They don't have a true, "This land is your land this land is my land," kind of outlook. They still see us and our work as less than.

Black people can watch friends, three's company, Big bang theory and tons of other white shows with no black representation and thoroughly enjoy it, no cap, no sauce. We can see it and love and respect it for what it is, but white people, particularly white liberals that pretend to be cool that too many get a pass to come to the picnic and they show their true colors

Far too many white people don't see themselves represented and automatically a percentage of their brain goes on ignore mode. They miss out on so much because they are intentionally closed-minded to the culture of anything but their own.

I can't begin to name the amount of white movies and TV shows I watched that didn't have a single black person throughout their entire run and I enjoyed it, enjoyed the writing enjoyed the acting enjoyed the art and respecting it for what it was, but them? I pity them
Jeremy is just a regular dude.
I don't think its that serious with him. If you like the same shit he does, he'll nerd out about it with you. He's a gamer/sci-fi horror nerd and will speak indiscriminately about those things for hours off camera.
Nobody understands us like us, but some people will ride with you because they know right from wrong. He's one of those dudes that believes in the ideal world and how things should be, rather than how they are.
 
Going to say something that may be seen as controversial

He made up for BP2 with this one
Because I was not a fan of that and it had me questioning him.
The one shot of our music through time is the greatest piece of film ever recorded in human history. I saw it and thought about Paul Robeson and his views on music and the liberation of all of Earth’s inhabitants. Having listened to the Black Studies Podcast with Charles Asanasopuplous earlier in the day, the film just made sense.
 
The one shot of our music through time is the greatest piece of film ever recorded in human history. I saw it and thought about Paul Robeson and his views on music and the liberation of all of Earth’s inhabitants. Having listened to the Black Studies Podcast with Charles Asanasopuplous earlier in the day, the film just made sense.
That scene was otherworldly
 


Box Office: Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners’ Bites Off Big $4.7M in Previews

The supernatural vampire pic is a bold original swing that reunites the acclaimed director with Michael B. Jordan. Elsewhere, 'Minecraft' clears the $300 million milestone domestically.
BY PAMELA MCCLINTOCK
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APRIL 18, 2025 8:20AM
Michael B Jordan in Sinners

Michael B Jordan in Sinners COURTESY OF WARNER BROS.



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Ryan Googler’s critically acclaimed Sinners starring Michael B. Jordan bit off an impressive $4.7 million in Thursday previews as Easter weekend gets underway at the box office, where the period vampire pic will battle with A Minecraft Movie for top spoils. Speaking of the latter, Minecraft jumped the $300 million mark on Thursday domestically.
All eyes on are how Coogler’s Sinners performs, since the bold original pic was made entirely by Warner Bros. movie chiefs Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy from start to finish.
Sinners has plenty of advantages as it arrives on the big screen. Reuniting Coogler with his go-to leading man Jordan, the R-rated movie boasts the best Rotten Tomatoes critics’ score of Coogler’s career with 97 percent.



Warners, trying to manage expectations, is targeting an opening in the $35 million to $40 million range for Sinners. There’s reason to be circumspect, considering the film is an R-rated, period supernatural vampire pic. Tracking services are more bullish in suggesting $40 million to $45 million, while rival studios think Sinner‘s launch could end up north of $50 million.
Produced and co-financed by Legendary alongside Vertigo, Minecraft should easily earn $40 million to $45 million in its third outing as it jumps the $600 million mark globally, including $300 million domestically. The film is on its way to becoming one of the top video game adaptations of all time, and is already the top-grossing pic of 2025 in a feather-in-the-cap for De Luca and Abdy.
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Sinners is a defining moment for the executive duo and their commitment to working with high-profile auteurs, and giving filmmakers a relatively wide berth in terms of budget. Sinners cost $90 million to make before marketing, a relatively hefty price tag for a genre movie (that’s ahead of the $50 budget for Coogler and Jordan’s Creed).
Coogler burst onto the scene with the indie hit Fruitvale Station before going on to direct Creed and the Black Panther franchise.
A period pic, the 1932-set Sinners stars Jordan in dual roles as identical twin entrepreneurs known as Smoke and Stack. Having survived the World War I trenches and Chicago gangland, the brothers return after seven years to their segregated Mississippi Delta hometown, Clarksdale. They are flush with cash and have a truckload of liquor and a plan to open a juke joint. However, they encounter unexpected horrors.
Sinners is the gifted writer-director’s first entirely original feature, not based on real-life events or existing IP, and he packs it with enough thematic layers and genre fluidity to fuel at least three movies,” writes David Rooney in The Hollywood Reporter‘s review.
 
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