With a Minecraft film, the cinema year has found its first box office overflower. The video game adaptation has been leading the cinema charts since its start. After the Easter weekend, however, it is clear: there is a new leader who has even exceeded the wildest expectations: Blood & Sinners turns into a screen sensation.
The cinema charts after Easter: Blood & Sinners beats a Minecraft film and writes horror film history
The vampire film by Black Panther director Ryan Coogler left the forecasts in the United States far behind and landed an impressive debut with $ 45.6 million, as Deadline reports. This is impressive mainly because we are dealing with a film here that does not belong to an established franchise.
Since Jordan Peeles Nope, who came to the cinema in 2022, there has been no original film fabric that has been chosen so much on the start weekend. In addition, Blood & Sinners comes as a horror film in the USA with an R-rating, which corresponds to our FSK-16 release-an additional hurdle for strong cinema numbers.
Here you can watch the trailer for Blood & Sinners:
Blood & Sinners – Trailer (German) HD
Speaking of horror: Blood & Sinners is the first horror film to receive a cinemascore with the value A. The market research company has been dealing with the public reactions in the United States since 1979. Horror films usually have very difficult to maintain an A and end up in the B area.
Self-celebrated horror films such as Get Out, a Quiet Place 2 and conjuring have only made it to a value of A-. Blood & Sinners has thus secured a record in the history books. In advance, the reviews with praise for the unusual vampire film with Michael B. Jordan overturned in a double role.
Blood & Sinners tells an unusual vampire story and is the best blockbuster of the year so far
The story of Blood & Sinners revolves around the twins Smoke and Stack, who served as soldiers in the First World War and then climbed into the underworld of Chicago. Now return to Mississippi to Mississippi and want to open a Juke bar. Before you get yourself, hungry vampires are just around the corner.
More about Blood & Sinners:
Now we can be excited to see how Blood & Sinners will be at the box office in the next few days. So far, the film has reached $ 61 million worldwide. The production budget was $ 90 million. In order for the film to remove profit, according to industry reports, it has to import at least $ 170 million.
Blood & Sinners has been running in German cinemas since April 17, 2025.