Sinners Hits Huge Global Box Office Milestone, Closes In On Being One Of The 10 Biggest Horror Movies Ever

Sinners has passed yet another major box office milestone. The new horror movie, which was directed by Ryan Coogler, stars Michael B. Jordan as twins Smoke and Stack, whose new business venture in their hometown is under threat from a menacing evil force. The Sinners release has set numerous records since the movie debuted on April 18, including earning the best Easter opening weekend for an R-rated movie, having the second-smallest sophomore weekend drop for an R-rated movie (behind Heart Eyes), and becoming Ryan Coogler’s highest-grossing non-Marvel Cinematic Universe movie.

Warner Bros. has now announced that Sinners grossed $4.4 million at the domestic box office and $1.2 million in international markets on Friday, May 16. This brings its cumulative global box office total to $303.5 million, passing the enormous $300 million milestone right at the beginning of its fifth weekend in theaters. It is only the fourth movie to pass this milestone worldwide in 2025 so far, after Captain America: Brave New World, A Minecraft Movie (which is also being distributed by Warner Bros.), and Ne Zha 2.

What This Means For Sinners

The Movie Is Making Horror History

The Ryan Coogler movie took a huge risk because the reported Sinners budget is somewhere between $90 and $100 million, which could place its estimated break-even point as high as $250 million, a total that only 24 horror movies in history have surpassed. However, the movie’s stellar opening weekend and strong audience hold have seen it pass that milestone and then some, and it has almost certainly entered the realm of pure profit at the time of writing.

Movies typically need to earn back two and a half times their budgets because theaters keep half of ticket sales and marketing costs are not factored into production budgets.

Additionally, it will most likely only be a matter of days before the Sinners box office rises to a point that it becomes one of the ten highest-grossing horror movies of all time. According to The Numbers, the current No. 10 on the all-time horror chart is 2016’s Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, which grossed $314.1 million. That is just $10.6 million above the current standing of the Michael B. Jordan movie, which is already projected to earn at least another $10 million at the domestic box office alone by the end of Sunday.

Our Take On The Sinners Box Office Milestone

It Could Keep Climbing The All-Time Horror Chart

Although it is five weekends in, Sinners is showing no signs of slowing down. In fact, its projected 3-day total of $15 million for the weekend represents a 68.7% drop from its opening weekend, which is a level of drop that many horror movies have already suffered by the end of their second weekends. This nearly unprecedented audience hold could see it climbing even higher up the horror chart. While it will likely never reach the level of the No. 1 title, 2017’s It ($701 million), it could break into the Top 5 if it surpasses The Nun‘s $362.9 million.