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Newsweek
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Newsweek
Sinners Gets New Digital Release Date
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Entertainment gossip and news from Newsweek's network of contributors Ryan Coogler's Sinners took the world by storm when it hit movie theaters in April and has since grossed $338.8 million at the worldwide box office. Made on a $90 million budget, Sinners is led by Michael B. Jordan. He plays twin brothers, Smoke and Stack, who return to the South to open a juke joint where they swiftly discover evil lurks in the shadows. MICHAEL B. JORDAN as Smoke in Warner Bros. Pictures' 'SINNERS,' a Warner Bros. Pictures release. MICHAEL B. JORDAN as Smoke in Warner Bros. Pictures' 'SINNERS,' a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Eli Adé READ: REVIEW: Sinners – Ryan Coogler Has Made the Best Film of 2025 So Far Michael B. Jordan is joined by co-stars Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O'Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Miller, and Delroy Lindo. Maybe you caught the film in theaters and have been itching to watch it on repeat, or perhaps you heard the hype but didn't get the chance to catch it on the big screen, but now you can watch Sinners from home. We have all the details on how to watch Sinners below, including where to watch Sinners, as well as the Sinners digital release date and Sinners streaming information. Sinners – How to Watch Sinners releases on Video on Demand platforms on June 3, 2025. The film will be available to rent and buy on places like Fandango at Home, Prime Video, Apple TV, and YouTube for $19.99 to rent and $24.99 to buy. Where Can I Watch Sinners? Sinners will be available to watch digitally from June 3. You will be able to rent or buy the film from Video on Demand platforms. Sinners is also available for pre-order on physical media in the 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray formats. Sinners Physical Release Date Sinners is now available for pre-order in 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray formats from digital retailers. The film will be released in physical format on July 8. Bonus features include: Dancing with the Devil: The Making of Sinners Blues in the Night: The Music of Sinners Thicker Than Blood: Becoming the Smokestack Twins Spirits of the Deep South Wages of Sin: The Creature FX of Sinners Deleted Scenes Bonus features may vary depending on format and retailer. Sinners Digital Release Date Sinners will be available to watch digitally from June 3, 2025. Is Sinners Available to Stream in the US? Sinners is not yet available on any streaming services in the US. However, due to the film being a Warner Bros release, Sinners will likely end up on Max in the coming months. What Is Sinners About? The official synopsis for Sinners, as per IMDb, reads: Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
Newsweek
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Newsweek
'A Minecraft Movie' Hits HBO Max for Free Streaming in June: What to Know
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Entertainment gossip and news from Newsweek's network of contributors While the very idea of "A Minecraft Movie" may have elicited some groans from fans at first, the film was a runaway hit. Now we finally know when the film will be available to stream on HBO Max. Read More: Minecraft Movie – Everything We Know, Trailer, Release Date Here's when you can stream "A Minecraft Movie" and everything else you need to know. (L-R) EMMA MYERS as Natalie, DANIELLE BROOKS as Dawn, SEBASTIAN HANSEN as Henry and JASON MOMOA as Garrett in Warner Bros. Pictures' and Legendary Pictures' 'A Minecraft Movie,' a Warner Bros. Pictures release. (L-R) EMMA MYERS as Natalie, DANIELLE BROOKS as Dawn, SEBASTIAN HANSEN as Henry and JASON MOMOA as Garrett in Warner Bros. Pictures' and Legendary Pictures' 'A Minecraft Movie,' a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures When is 'A Minecraft Movie' Available for Free Streaming? As Forbes reports, we don't have a precise free streaming date for "A Minecraft Movie", but we can get pretty close. The site says the video game film adaptation from the director of "Napoleon Dynamite" will be available for streaming on HBO Max sometime in June. While we don't have a precise June date, WhenToStream has offered a pretty good guess. The site points out that the only date on HBO Max's release schedule without a big premiere already scheduled is June 20, meaning it would be the perfect date to debut "A Minecraft Movie" on streaming. Again, this is only a guess and not an officially confirmed date, but WhenToStream has been known to offer pretty good guesses in the past. If your cravings for chicken jockey mayhem can't wait that long, no worries - "A Minecraft Movie" has been available digitally to rent or buy at home since May 13. It's available on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Fandango at Home, Google Play, and more. On all the services listed above, "A Minecraft Movie" costs $24.99 to buy and $19.99 to rent. How Did 'A Minecraft Movie' Perform at the Box Office? "A Minecraft Movie" is the perfect example of a movie that critics couldn't stand but that audiences couldn't get enough of. While its Rotten Tomatoes critics' score is a dreary 48%, judging by the ticket sales, audiences couldn't care less what reviewers had to say. "A Minecraft Movie" made $163 million on its opening weekend alone, and things didn't seem to slow down much afterwards. When the smoke cleared, the film had pulled in $421.5 million domestically and $519.2 million internationally. The global take-home for "A Minecraft Movie" didn't quite hit the $1 billion mark, but it came close; the film made $940.7 million globally, against a $150 million production budget. What is the Minecraft Movie Rated? "A Minecraft Movie" is rated PG. More Movies: How 'Minecraft Movie' Compared to 'Snow White's' Opening Weekend Minecraft Movie 'Chicken Jockey' Scene Causes Chaos in Theaters
Los Angeles Times
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Thanks, Tom Cruise and Stitch! Movie theaters have a record-breaking Memorial Day weekend
It was Saturday afternoon, and I had ditched my two young, loud kids, leaving them with my husband for a solo trip to the movie theater. There was no quiet to be had, though. When I got to the AMC theater at Del Amo Fashion Center in Torrance, the place was packed. Among the crowd: lots of kids as giddy and rowdy as my own. It was the opening weekend for Walt Disney Co.'s live-action remake of 'Lilo & Stitch.' Families posed for selfies outside the theater with a giant banner featuring the crazed alien Stitch. Inside, a long line for popcorn and candy snaked through the lobby. The premieres of 'Lilo & Stitch' and 'Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning' powered a record-breaking Memorial Day weekend at the box office. As my colleague Samantha Masunaga reported, 'Lilo & Stitch' hauled in an estimated $183 million in its opening weekend in the U.S. and Canada, setting the record for the biggest Memorial Day weekend opener ever. Not adjusting for inflation, it toppled the former top Memorial Day movie, 'Top Gun: Maverick,' which debuted with $160.5 million in 2022. Paramount Pictures and Skydance Media's 'Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning' brought in $77 million domestically for second place, with 'Final Destination Bloodlines,' 'Thunderbolts*' and 'Sinners' rounding out the top five. The busy holiday was a relief for theater owners and moviemakers still struggling from a post-pandemic slump. The local film and TV industry has been battered in recent years by the slowdown in production wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, which made audiences more comfortable staying home to watch movies on streaming platforms, and the writers' and actors' strikes in 2023. Enter: the little blue alien and Tom Cruise, still performing his own stunts at 62. Chris Aronson, Paramount's president of domestic distribution, called the holiday ticket sales 'just an extraordinary accomplishment after so many people were willing to write off the theatrical business.' Historically, the holiday has been one of the biggest moviegoing weekends, serving as a springboard for the busy summer months. This year, the record-breaking holiday follows a solid spring. Films such as Warner Bros. Pictures' 'A Minecraft Movie' and Ryan Coogler's 'Sinners' helped to fuel domestic theatrical revenue of $875 million in April, close to the pre-pandemic average of $886 million for the same month from 2015 to 2019, Eric Handler, media and entertainment analyst at Roth Capital, told Masunaga. Disney and Marvel Studios' 'Thunderbolts*' and Warner Bros. Pictures' 'Final Destination Bloodlines,' which premiered in May, also have kept up steady business. I didn't go to see the blockbusters, though. I walked into a less-than-half-full screening of 'Friendship,' the ultra-awkward indie comedy starring Tim Robinson as a suburban dad who becomes obsessed with his new neighbor, a weatherman played by Paul Rudd. The trailer boasts a review that, in reference to another Rudd movie, calls it ''I Love You, Man' for sickos.' For an independent film, it had a good holiday weekend, bringing in $4.6 million, according to the film performance tracker Box Office Mojo. Half of my theater's audience sat quietly, and I heard one older man grumble on the way out that it was 'the worst movie I've ever seen.' The other half laughed through the actors' foraging expedition for wild mushrooms and 'adventures' in the local sewer system. I was in the latter half, whatever that says about me. My husband — a Robinson superfan who went by himself to a 'Friendship' screening later that night — met me outside the theater with our kids, who had one question: 'When can we go see 'Lilo & Stitch'?' Valerie says, 'My Happy Place a.k.a.: Santa Barbara.'Lynne says, 'Cayucos! Cool beach town in Central California!' Email us at essentialcalifornia@ and your response might appear in the newsletter this week. Today's great photo is from Times photographer Myung J. Chung at Los Angeles National Cemetery in Westwood where Scouts joined community members in a huge Memorial Day effort to place flags on nearly 90,000 grave sites. Hailey Branson-Potts, staff reporterKevinisha Walker, multiplatform editorAndrew Campa, Sunday writerKarim Doumar, head of newsletters How can we make this newsletter more useful? Send comments to essentialcalifornia@ Check our top stories, topics and the latest articles on
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Lilo & Stitch' beats Tom Cruise and 'Mission: Impossible' in record Memorial Day weekend box office
A chaotic blue alien and the high-flying escapades of Tom Cruise propelled the Memorial Day weekend box office to record heights, giving relief to theater owners still struggling from a post-pandemic malaise among moviegoers. Walt Disney Co.'s live-action film "Lilo & Stitch" hauled in $183 million in its opening weekend in the U.S. and Canada, according to studio estimates, placing it in first place. It's the biggest Memorial Day weekend opener ever, not adjusting for inflation, topping "Top Gun: Maverick," which debuted with $160.5 million in 2022. Paramount Pictures and Skydance Media's "Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning" brought in $77 million domestically for second place. "Final Destination Bloodlines," "Thunderbolts*" and "Sinners" rounded out the top five this weekend. The two new studio blockbusters were big overseas, too. Globally, "Lilo & Stitch" collected $341.7 million including domestic ticket sales. The worldwide tally for "Mission: Impossible," the eighth in the series, was $190 million. Historically, the holiday has been one of the biggest moviegoing weekends of the year, serving as a springboard for the busy summer months. But since the 2020 pandemic and the dual writers' and actors' strikes in 2023, it has become a less reliable indicator of the theatrical business. "The calendar thinned out a little bit, particularly post-pandemic," said Eric Handler, media and entertainment analyst at Roth Capital. "You just didn't have the depth that you used to have. But it's good to see that there's two big event movies this year." "Lilo & Stitch" and "Mission: Impossible" also largely catered to different audiences, lowering the risk that audiences would pick and choose between similar films. Box office grosses have typically done better with more genres in theaters. The reported budget for "Lilo & Stitch" was $100 million, while "Mission: Impossible" reportedly cost $300 million to $400 million to produce, placing it among the most expensive movies ever. The strong showing on Memorial Day weekend adds to a solid spring at the box office. Powered by films including Warner Bros. Pictures' "A Minecraft Movie" and Ryan Coogler's "Sinners," domestic theatrical revenue for April totaled $875 million, close to the pre-pandemic average of $886 million for the same month from 2015-19, Handler said. Then in May came Disney and Marvel Studios' "Thunderbolts*" and Warner Bros. Pictures' "Final Destination Bloodlines," which have kept up steady business at theaters. "This spring has been so good for the box office, it usually means the summer is going to be strong," said Kimberly Owczarski, associate professor in the department of film, television and digital media at Texas Christian University. "Last year, we didn't have those big tentpoles in April and early May that usually start the season. Because we've had that, people are in the moviegoing mood." Last year, the holiday weekend grossed just $132 million, making it the worst Memorial Day weekend box office in nearly 30 years. Films like "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga" and "The Garfield Movie" brought in about $30 million each that weekend, a distinct difference from the mega-hauls that blockbusters traditionally gross during Memorial Day weekend. The slow start last year to the all-important summer movie season made distributors and exhibitors anxious. It wasn't until Disney-Pixar's "Inside Out 2" debuted in mid-June that the box office started to turn around. This year, however, a seemingly strong lineup of familiar blockbusters for most of the summer has given industry insiders optimism. Sony Pictures' "Karate Kid: Legends" comes out at the end of the month, followed by Lionsgate's "John Wick" spin-off "Ballerina" in early June. Other anticipated releases include Universal Pictures' live action "How to Train Your Dragon" and "Jurassic World Rebirth," Disney-Pixar's original animated film "Elio," Warner Bros.' "Superman" and Disney and Marvel Studios' "The Fantastic Four: First Steps." That's boosted hopes for a stronger overall theatrical business this year. Analysts say the 2025 domestic box office could gross an estimated $9.2 billion to $9.5 billion, which would be an improvement on last year's $8.7 billion. More importantly, it's higher than the 2023 box office total of $9 billion, which would indicate continued growth and a "true recovery," Handler said. However, those numbers still pale in comparison with pre-pandemic box office totals, including $11.4 billion in 2019 and $11.9 billion in 2018. Even before the pandemic, theaters were starting to see declines in attendance, a trend that accelerated during COVID-19 when people got used to staying at home and watching movies on streaming platforms. As the pandemic and the strikes decreased the number of movies in theaters, and the length of time between a movie's theatrical debut and its availability for home viewing shortened, theaters lost more of the crucial business of the casual moviegoer. "When the content is good, people show up," Handler said. "The content cycle is favorable right now, and hopefully we'll see that continue through the next two years.' Sign up for our Wide Shot newsletter to get the latest entertainment business news, analysis and insights. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
Los Angeles Times
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
‘Lilo & Stitch' trounces Tom Cruise and ‘Mission: Impossible' in record Memorial Day weekend box office
A chaotic blue alien and the high-flying escapades of Tom Cruise propelled the Memorial Day weekend box office to record heights, giving relief to theater owners still struggling from a post-pandemic malaise among moviegoers. Walt Disney Co.'s live-action film 'Lilo & Stitch' hauled in $183 million in its opening weekend in the U.S. and Canada, placing it in first place. Paramount Pictures and Skydance Media's 'Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning' brought in $77 million domestically for second place. 'Final Destination Bloodlines,' 'Thunderbolts*' and 'Sinners' rounded out the top five this weekend. Historically, the holiday has been one of the biggest moviegoing weekends of the year, serving as a springboard for the busy summer months. But since the 2020 pandemic and the dual writers' and actors' strikes in 2023, it has become a less reliable indicator of the theatrical business. 'The calendar thinned out a little bit, particularly post-pandemic,' said Eric Handler, media and entertainment analyst at Roth Capital. 'You just didn't have the depth that you used to have. But it's good to see that there's two big event movies this year.' 'Lilo & Stitch' and 'Mission: Impossible' also largely catered to different audiences, lowering the risk that audiences would pick and choose between similar films. Box office grosses have typically done better with more genres in theaters. The reported budget for 'Lilo & Stitch' was $100 million, while 'Mission: Impossible' reportedly cost between $300 million and $400 million to produce, placing it among the most expensive movies ever. The strong showing on Memorial Day weekend adds to a solid spring at the box office. Powered by films including Warner Bros. Pictures' 'A Minecraft Movie' and Ryan Coogler's 'Sinners,' domestic theatrical revenue for April totaled $875 million, close to the pre-pandemic average of $886 million for the same month from 2015 to 2019, Handler said. Then in May came Disney and Marvel Studios' 'Thunderbolts*' and Warner Bros. Pictures' 'Final Destination Bloodlines,' which have kept up steady business at theaters. 'This spring has been so good for the box office, it usually means the summer is going to be strong,' said Kimberly Owczarski, associate professor in the department of film, television and digital media at Texas Christian University. 'Last year, we didn't have those big tentpoles in April and early May that usually start the season. Because we've had that, people are in the moviegoing mood.' Last year, the holiday weekend grossed just $132 million, making it the worst Memorial Day weekend box office in nearly 30 years. Films like 'Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga' and 'The Garfield Movie' brought in about $30 million each that weekend, a distinct difference from the mega-hauls that blockbusters traditionally gross during Memorial Day weekend. The slow start last year to the all-important summer movie season made both distributors and exhibitors anxious. It wasn't until Disney-Pixar's 'Inside Out 2' debuted in mid-June that the box office started to turn around. This year, however, a seemingly strong lineup of familiar blockbusters for most of the summer has given industry insiders optimism. Sony Pictures' 'Karate Kid: Legends' comes out at the end of the month, followed by Lionsgate's 'John Wick' spin-off 'Ballerina' in early June. Other anticipated releases include Universal Pictures' live action 'How to Train Your Dragon' and 'Jurassic World Rebirth,' Disney-Pixar's original animated film 'Elio,' Warner Bros.' 'Superman' and Disney and Marvel Studios' 'The Fantastic Four: First Steps.' That's boosted hopes for a stronger overall theatrical business this year. Analysts say the 2025 domestic box office could gross an estimated $9.2 billion to $9.5 billion, which would be an improvement on last year's $8.7 billion. More importantly, it's higher than the 2023 box office total of $9 billion, which would indicate continued growth and a 'true recovery,' Handler said. However, those numbers still pale in comparison to pre-pandemic box office totals, including $11.4 billion in 2019 and $11.9 billion in 2018. Even before the pandemic, theaters were starting to see declines in attendance, a trend that accelerated during COVID-19 when people got used to staying at home and watching movies on streaming platforms. As the pandemic and the strikes decreased the number of movies in theaters, and the length of time between a movie's theatrical debut and its availability for home viewing shortened, theaters lost more of the crucial business of the casual moviegoer. 'When the content is good, people show up,' Handler said. 'The content cycle is favorable right now, and hopefully we'll see that continue through the next two years.'
