Weekend Box Office Projections Favor ‘Sinners' Over ‘The Accountant 2'

Forbes

25-04-2025

Michael B. Jordan plays twins in "Sinners."
Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Coogler's vampire thriller Sinners is staking out another victory at the domestic box office this weekend.
Sinners pulled off an impressive opening frame last weekend with $48 million in ticket sales from 3,308 North American theaters to seize the box office crown from A Minecraft Movie. The Jack Black and Jason Momoa video game adaptation dropped to No. 2, but its third-weekend take of $40.4 million from 4,032 theaters boosted its domestic tally to $343.8 million.
Two new big releases hit theaters this weekend — the Ben Affleck crime thriller The Accountant 2 and the movie adaptation of PlayStation Studio's hit video game Until Dawn — but neither film is projected to have enough power to knock Sinners from the top of the weekend box office perch.
Sinners, which reunites writer-director Coogler with his frequent star Jordan, is projected by Variety to haul in $25 million to $30 million in its second weekend. Box Office Pro is forecasting a heftier second-weekend take for Sinners, however, projecting a take of anywhere from $27 million to $35 million.
Deadline, though, is on the lower end of the second frame estimates for Sinners, forecasting anywhere from $19 million to $24 million.
As for A Minecraft Movie, Box Office Pro is projecting a domestic tally of $20 million to $25 million for the film's fourth weekend frame, while Deadline and Variety didn't forccast any estimates for it.
Jon Bernthal and Ben Affleck in "The Accountant 2."
Variety projects The Accountant 2 — the sequel to 2016's The Accountant — to earn $20 million to $25 million from 3,610 venues domestically, while Deadline is projecting a $20 million-plus opening for the Ben Affleck sequel.
Box Office Pro, however, sees a stronger debut for The Accountant 2 and projects a $22 million to $28 million opening frame domestically.
Both Variety and Deadline are forecasting the horror thriller Until Dawn — which is opening in 3,000 North American theaters — to debut in the same vicinity. Variety projects Until Dawn to earn $8 million to $10 million Friday through Sunday, while Deadline pegs it at $8 million to $9 million.
This weekend also features the 20th anniversary re-release of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, which Variety projects will make anywhere from $20 million to $22 million.
Box Office Pro is projecting an $18 million to $23 million weekend for the third film in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, while Deadline noted that the film has already sold $20 million to $25 million in ticket pre-sales.