Sinners Officially One of the Highest-Grossing Vampire Movies of All Time Domestically — and It May End Up Catching Twilight

If you thought Ryan Coogler’s Sinners wasn’t going to beryllium a taste phenomenon, it’s harmless to accidental you’ve been proven wrong. The stylish and scary vampire flick has taken the film-loving satellite by tempest since it debuted successful theaters conscionable 2 weeks ago, and is present officially 1 of the highest-grossing vampire movies of each clip successful North America.

At the clip of this article's publication, Sinners sits astatine $122 cardinal for its home container bureau gross, overtaking Van Helsing to go the ninth biggest vampire movie of each clip successful North America, according to Box Office Mojo.

According to this ranking, Sinners volition soon sprout past the archetypal Hotel Transylvania movie's $148 cardinal home beingness gross, and could drawback the archetypal Twilight movie's $193 cardinal North American haul.

It's a antithetic concern wholly erstwhile it comes to planetary container office, of course. Currently Sinners sits astatine a worldwide full of $161.626 cardinal aft 2 weekends successful theaters. 2012's Hotel Transylvania ended up with $358,488,860 astatine the planetary container office. 2008's Twilight secured $408,516,348 globally.

Here’s wherever the statement for the hold of the theatrical model comes backmost into play, but if Sinners sticks astir successful theaters for a spot — arsenic it should, considering venues astir the state are packed to the brim, immoderate adjacent during the mediate of the time connected weekdays (speaking from idiosyncratic NYC acquisition here) — it perfectly has the imaginable to propulsion past $300 cardinal globally earlier bowing retired triumphantly and heading to streaming and, hopefully, carnal media.

After all, the movie is already implicit halfway determination astatine $161 million, truthful it’s acold from impossible. I deliberation we’re each rooting for the movie to spell arsenic acold arsenic its occurrence volition instrumentality it, and if that means dethroning Bella and Edward, truthful beryllium it. The vampire gods — and, rather frankly, the radical — volition it so.

IGN's Sinners reappraisal returned a 9/10. We said: "Ryan Coogler’s archetypal fearfulness movie expertly blends plentifulness of vampires and euphony into a compelling communicative astir duplicate brothers – played by Michael B. Jordan – returning location to their Mississippi hometown successful 1932."

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.