“Sinners” is back just in time for spooky season. Ryan Coogler‘s Warner Bros. triumph grossed $367 million worldwide following its release April 18, and now it’s going to add even more to its haul.
The vampire film will be re-released in IMAX theaters, including for IMAX 70mm releases, starting Thursday October 30 and continue through the Halloween weekend thereafter.
A genre cocktail of vampire gore and southern gothic dread — think of the real-life legend surrounding Delta Blues legend Robert Johnson, who’s rumored to have sold his soul to the devil at a crossroads in exchange for his guitar-playing skills, but in movie form — “Sinners” is one of the most acclaimed films of the year. It has a Metacritic score of 84, and IndieWire’s David Ehrlich gave it a B+. That it also had such extraordinary box office means that it’s exactly the kind of film the Academy Awards is always looking to celebrate: Original, acclaimed, and popular.
So it’s not a surprise that the October 30 IMAX re-release is also perfectly positioned to give the film another jolt in the Oscar race: “One Battle After Another” will have been out for over a month at that point, a few of the fall festival favorites have already opened to the public, and now… here’s a film that opened six months ago that might be as good, or better, than any of those. It’s just the right time to remind people of how much they enjoyed this film about identical twin brothers (Michael B. Jordan) trying to open a juke joint in 1930s Mississippi who suddenly find themselves at the center of a vampire takeover.
For what it’s worth, IndieWire Awards Editor Marcus Jones puts “Sinners” in the category of Frontrunner for the best picture race this Oscar season, alongside other titles such as Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein,” Chloe Zhao’s “Hamnet,” Josh Safdie’s “Marty Supreme,” Mona Fastvold’s “The Testament of Ann Lee,” and, of course, Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another.”
The IMAX 70MM locations where audiences can see “Sinners” during this re-release are AMC Lincoln Square in New York City, NY; Universal AMC Citywalk in Los Angeles, CA; Irvine Spectrum and IMAX in Irvine, CA; AMC Metreon in San Francisco, CA; Indiana State Museum in Indianapolis, IN; Harkins Arizona Mills in Tempe, AZ; Autonation IMAX in Ft. Lauderdale, FL; Cinemark Dallas IMAX in Dallas, TX; Cineplex Cinemas Vaughn in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; and BFI IMAX in London, UK.