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New York Post
03-06-2025
- Business
- New York Post
‘Sinners' is now available to stream at home — Here's how to watch
New York Post may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you click or buy through our links. Featured pricing is subject to change. After a dominant box office run and 45 days exclusively in theaters, Ryan Coogler's genre-bending vampiric epic 'Sinners' is now available to stream at home. Released on Good Friday, 'Sinners' stars Michael B. Jordan and… Michael B. Jordan. The actor plays a dual role as the SmokeStack twins, criminals who return to their Clarksdale, Mississippi hometown after years working for crime families in Chicago. Smoke and Stack come home intending to start over by opening a juke joint for the local Black community, only to find that a great evil lurking just outside threatens to ruin everything. Advertisement 'Sinners' features supporting performances from Miles Caton (in his first-ever film role), Hailee Steinfeld, Wunmi Mosaku, Delroy Lindo, and Jack O'Connell. 'Sinners' streaming date: 'Sinners' is streaming on-demand on platforms like Prime Video now! 'Sinners' was released on digital June 3. How to watch 'Sinners' on Prime Video: 'Sinners' is available for digital purchase on Prime Video. The film costs $24.99 to buy or $19.99 to rent — still significantly less than it may cost for a family to go out to the movies to watch it. Advertisement While you won't have to be a paid Amazon Prime member to buy or rent 'Sinners,' you will need at least a free Amazon account; that way, you can return to watch 'Sinners' whenever you want to. Digital purchases will live in your account indefinitely to be watched as many times as you'd like, while you'll have 30 days to start a rental and 48 hours to finish it once you've pressed play. Does 'Sinners' have IMAX aspect ratios on digital? Yes! One of the biggest talking points ahead of the 'Sinners' theatrical release was the formatting and aspect ratios, and luckily, viewers at home will get a taste of the IMAX formatting. Shot on film, 'Sinners' is one of the first films to combine two proprietary film formats into one: scenes shot on Ultra Panavision 70 and IMAX 15-perf film were both used in the final IMAX cut of the movie. The aspect ratio expands from Ultra Panavision 70 2.76:1 to IMAX 1.90:1 or 1.43:1 during select scenes, creating a more immersive environment in key moments. Advertisement The digital version shifts between 2.76:1 and 1.43:1 for the immersive IMAX scenes. If this all sounds confusing, it's because it kind of is. Luckily, Coogler filmed an explainer for Kodak with all of the film and formatting available for 'Sinners'. Just know this: if you buy the movie on digital (or preorder the 4K Blu-ray), you'll be seeing it, at least partly, as the creators intended. 'Sinners' cast guide: In addition to Jordan starring in dual roles as identical twin brothers Elijah 'Smoke' Moore and Elias 'Stack' Moore, here's who you'll see in 'Sinners.' Hailee Steinfeld as Mary Miles Caton as Sammie 'Preacher Boy' Moore Jack O'Connell as Remmick Wunmi Mosaku as Annie Jayme Lawson as Pearline Omar Miller as Cornbread Delroy Lindo as Delta Slim Peter Dreimanis as Bert Lola Kirke as Joan Li Jun Li as Grace Chow Yao as Bo Chow Saul Williams as Jedidiah Moore 'Sinners' physical release date: While you can stream 'Sinners' at home now, some may prefer a physical alternative to owning movies digitally, where there's always the chance that rights may be revoked and you'll lose that digital access. Physical discs are tangible proof that, as long as you have a player to play it, you'll be able to watch the movie you own. Advertisement The 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD copies of 'Sinners' will be released on July 8, but you can preorder now on Amazon to receive your copy on release day. Check out the trailer for 'Sinners': Why Trust Post Wanted by the New York Post This article was written by Angela Tricarico, Commerce Writer/Reporter for Post Wanted Shopping and New York Post's streaming property, Decider. Angela keeps readers up to date with cord-cutter-friendly deals, and information on how to watch your favorite sports teams, TV shows, and movies on every streaming service. Not only does Angela test and compare the streaming services she writes about to ensure readers are getting the best prices, but she's also a superfan specializing in the intersection of shopping, tech, sports, and pop culture. Prior to joining Decider and The New York Post in 2023, she wrote about streaming and consumer tech at Insider Reviews
San Francisco Chronicle
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
‘Sinners' is back in IMAX. Fans have this Bay Area cinematographer to thank
' Sinners,' Oakland auteur Ryan Coogler 's blues vs. vampires movie set in 1930s Mississippi, is such a success that it's been booked for a rare return to nine IMAX theaters nationwide this month. 'It's like you get to have fun all over again!' the film's director of photography, Autumn Durald Arkapaw, enthused during a recent interview with the Chronicle ahead of the limited engagement that runs Thursday, May 15, through May 21. As the first female cinematographer to shoot a feature with 65mm IMAX film cameras, she is largely responsible for the visually awesome good time. Durald Arkapaw and Coogler combined shots done in IMAX's boxy, vertical 1.43:1 aspect ratio with 2.76:1 widescreen footage captured by Ultra Panavision 70mm cameras. 'The film was shot with two different aspect ratios, and this is the first time ever that a film has been released combining these two,' Coogler said in a film format explainer video that went viral around the time of 'Sinners'' April 18 release. 'It was a pretty complicated process to shoot (but) we had a lot of fun.' San Francisco's AMC Metreon 16 is the only theater in Bay Area fans can fully enjoy the frame shifts between the two formats projected from a 70mm IMAX film print. It's the optimum way to see every millimeter of what the filmmakers wanted to show you. That includes high-resolution dance numbers, gory killings, vast cottonfield vistas and two Michael B. Jordans, often in the same shot. And that's along with a deeply personal artistry the cinematographer put in every frame. Born in Oxnard (Ventura County), Durald Arkapaw moved to Hayward when she was 2 and later grew up in Danville. She attended film schools in Los Angeles and met fellow East Bay filmmaker Coogler after she shot some episodes of 'Loki,' the Marvel spin-off series that also starred East Bay native Rafael Casal of ' Blindspotting ' fame. Coogler later hired her to shoot the sequel to his own Marvel project, ' Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,' signaling the start of a beautiful collaboration. 'Whenever I do a film with Ryan, you're not only learning new film techniques,' said Durald Arkapow, who's also shot Gia Coppola 's ' Palo Alto ' and ' Showgirls ' and music videos for the rock band Haim, singer-songwriter Janelle Monáe and pop star Rihanna, who's 'Lift Me Up' she also directed. 'When we did 'Black Panther,' we shot underwater, which was a great feat. 'This one forces you to dive into your own ancestry and want to know more about where you came from,' added the cinematographer, who is of Filipino ancestry on her mother's side and New Orleans' Creole on her father's. The filmmakers got so much out of their new IMAX equipment that they added scenes that hadn't been planned for the format during production. This resulted in the DP's favorite setup, the opening and near-end scenes when guitarist Sammie (Miles Caton) returns to his father's church after surviving a vampire attack. 'It makes so much sense to shoot that space in IMAX,' Durald Arkapaw said. 'It was such a powerful scene that, obviously, ended up bookending the movie. One of my favorite shots is the church door opening in IMAX.' Probably the film's most talked-about sequence is the big dance number at the juke joint Jordan's twin gangsters Smoke and Stack open outside their rural hometown. It involved dozens of dancers intermingling with figures out of Black music history from African origins through hip-hop to Afrofuturist. All the while, the camera wove through the crowd before rising up and over them all, then out into the threatening night. 'It's a very emotional piece that a lot of people are responding to,' Durald Arkapaw acknowledged. 'We did three interior shots on Steadicam IMAX. Then we tip up to the roof, which is a VFX (CG enhanced) takeover; the plate of the roof burning was shot on our last day of photography. Then it tilts back down into a night exterior shot, a 50-foot MovieBird telescopic crane that pulls back on 100 feet of track, booms down and reveals the vampires from behind.' Both film and social history guided the overall look of 'Sinners.' Exteriors were informed by Kodachrome slides taken by the Farm Security Administration in the 1930s and '40s. Underlit interiors hark back to classic horror movies. 'I tend to like darker shadows, people going in and out of light,' Durald Arkapow explained, 'shaping faces, shaping the space, not always showing everything. That creates tension, which is a beautiful thing for a story like this.' And there was a personal factor to close-ups. 'I take being able to expose African American skin very seriously,' she said. 'It's a part of myself. Lighting different skin tones to have richness and a depth to them, it plays better in shadow sometimes.' As for filming Smoke and Stack in the same shots, every old trick and some new ones went into twinning Jordan onscreen, from shooting the actor twice to inventing a 'halo rig' — 10 digital cameras in a ring perched on Jordan's shoulders — that captured his facial performance to digitally graft onto a double's head. 'When you're shooting in such a resolute format for such a big screen, you want it to feel real,' Durald Arkapaw notes. 'So it was very nice to come up with a system in order to showcase the twinning, whether it was a simple lock-off or over-the-shoulder, or if it required more complex moves. We had the proper team to execute it, and I feel as though you cannot see the effects in this film, which is a testament to all that work.' So is Durald Arkapaw's prominence in the film's wider discussion. 'Sinners' has turned her into that rarest of Hollywood pros: a celebrity cinematographer. 'To have people contact me saying they love the work and emotionally reacted to it, that's really why I became a DP,' she said. 'It was rewarding enough just to shoot the film, but to have people respond in this way … especially girls. It's nice to be inspiring to people who were similar to me growing up, when there weren't many female cinematographers and I had to seek them out a bit more. With this out there for people to see, it will encourage more women to do the job as well.'
CNN
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
Ryan Coogler thanks audiences for seeing ‘Sinners' in the theater after big box office debut
Director Ryan Coogler is showing his 'eternal gratitude' for the moviegoers who saw his latest film 'Sinners' in the theater, helping the supernatural thriller overcome expectations and claim the No. 1 spot at the box office during its opening weekend. In a note posted to his X page on Tuesday, Coogler recognized the effort involved in making a trip to the theater for a movie, thanking those who 'booked a sitter and carpooled,' as well as those who 'changed their work schedules.' 'I want to thank you all who watched more than once, who recommended the film to others, both in person and on social media or on your text message chains,' he wrote. 'I had the gift of the opportunity of making a film inspired by my family and my ancestry but it was always a film that we wanted to make for audiences, in theaters.' Coogler wrote and directed 'Sinners,' a horror film that follows twin brothers – both played by Coogler's frequent collaborator Michael B. Jordan – who face unexpected paranormal visitors after opening a juke joint, a drinking and eating establishment that celebrates Southern Black culture and music, in their Mississippi hometown. The film also stars Hailee Steinfeld, breakout star Miles Caton, Jack O'Connell and Delroy Lindo, among others. 'Sinners' premiered on IMAX and standard screens on Friday and shattered industry expectations when it drew $45.6 million domestically in its opening weekend, surpassing previous estimates of about $35 million. Globally, the film has grossed more than $71 million as of Tuesday. ('Sinners' is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. Warner Bros. Discovery is the parent company of CNN.) The film draws on Coogler's own ancestry, which he wrote on Tuesday 'breathed so much life and purpose into me,' making the audience's support of the film that much more meaningful. It also made history as the first time that a film was shot using two different aspect ratios (Ultra Panavision 70 and IMAX, for the film enthusiasts) and the first time a film was released combining both. 'To see your response to the film has reinvigorated me and many others who believe in this art form,' Coogler added. 'And together maybe we can expand the definition of what a blockbuster is, what a horror movie is, and of what an IMAX audience looks like.' Coogler is best known for directing the three 'Creed' movies, the acclaimed 'Fruitvale Station' and two 'Black Panther' films for Marvel, including the Oscar-nominated sequel.
CNN
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
Ryan Coogler thanks audiences for seeing ‘Sinners' in the theater after big box office debut
Director Ryan Coogler is showing his 'eternal gratitude' for the moviegoers who saw his latest film 'Sinners' in the theater, helping the supernatural thriller overcome expectations and claim the No. 1 spot at the box office during its opening weekend. In a note posted to his X page on Tuesday, Coogler recognized the effort involved in making a trip to the theater for a movie, thanking those who 'booked a sitter and carpooled,' as well as those who 'changed their work schedules.' 'I want to thank you all who watched more than once, who recommended the film to others, both in person and on social media or on your text message chains,' he wrote. 'I had the gift of the opportunity of making a film inspired by my family and my ancestry but it was always a film that we wanted to make for audiences, in theaters.' Coogler wrote and directed 'Sinners,' a horror film that follows twin brothers – both played by Coogler's frequent collaborator Michael B. Jordan – who face unexpected paranormal visitors after opening a juke joint, a drinking and eating establishment that celebrates Southern Black culture and music, in their Mississippi hometown. The film also stars Hailee Steinfeld, breakout star Miles Caton, Jack O'Connell and Delroy Lindo, among others. 'Sinners' premiered on IMAX and standard screens on Friday and shattered industry expectations when it drew $45.6 million domestically in its opening weekend, surpassing previous estimates of about $35 million. Globally, the film has grossed more than $71 million as of Tuesday. ('Sinners' is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. Warner Bros. Discovery is the parent company of CNN.) The film draws on Coogler's own ancestry, which he wrote on Tuesday 'breathed so much life and purpose into me,' making the audience's support of the film that much more meaningful. It also made history as the first time that a film was shot using two different aspect ratios (Ultra Panavision 70 and IMAX, for the film enthusiasts) and the first time a film was released combining both. 'To see your response to the film has reinvigorated me and many others who believe in this art form,' Coogler added. 'And together maybe we can expand the definition of what a blockbuster is, what a horror movie is, and of what an IMAX audience looks like.' Coogler is best known for directing the three 'Creed' movies, the acclaimed 'Fruitvale Station' and two 'Black Panther' films for Marvel, including the Oscar-nominated sequel.
CNN
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
Ryan Coogler thanks audiences for seeing ‘Sinners' in the theater after big box office debut
Director Ryan Coogler is showing his 'eternal gratitude' for the moviegoers who saw his latest film 'Sinners' in the theater, helping the supernatural thriller overcome expectations and claim the No. 1 spot at the box office during its opening weekend. In a note posted to his X page on Tuesday, Coogler recognized the effort involved in making a trip to the theater for a movie, thanking those who 'booked a sitter and carpooled,' as well as those who 'changed their work schedules.' 'I want to thank you all who watched more than once, who recommended the film to others, both in person and on social media or on your text message chains,' he wrote. 'I had the gift of the opportunity of making a film inspired by my family and my ancestry but it was always a film that we wanted to make for audiences, in theaters.' Coogler wrote and directed 'Sinners,' a horror film that follows twin brothers – both played by Coogler's frequent collaborator Michael B. Jordan – who face unexpected paranormal visitors after opening a juke joint, a drinking and eating establishment that celebrates Southern Black culture and music, in their Mississippi hometown. The film also stars Hailee Steinfeld, breakout star Miles Caton, Jack O'Connell and Delroy Lindo, among others. 'Sinners' premiered on IMAX and standard screens on Friday and shattered industry expectations when it drew $45.6 million domestically, surpassing previous estimates of about $35 million. Globally, the film has grossed more than $71 million as of Tuesday. ('Sinners' is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. Warner Bros. Discovery is the parent company of CNN.) The film draws on Coogler's own ancestry, which he wrote on Tuesday 'breathed so much life and purpose into me,' making the audience's support of the film that much more meaningful. It also made history as the first time that a film was shot using two different aspect ratios (Ultra Panavision 70 and IMAX, for the film enthusiasts) and the first time a film was released combining both. 'To see your response to the film has reinvigorated me and many others who believe in this art form,' Coogler added. 'And together maybe we can expand the definition of what a blockbuster is, what a horror movie is, and of what an IMAX audience looks like.' Coogler is best known for directing the three 'Creed' movies, the acclaimed 'Fruitvale Station' and two 'Black Panther' films for Marvel, including the Oscar-nominated sequel.
