Warner Bros. Pictures responds to your “sinners” prayers: the successful film Ryan Coogler will be back in IMAX rooms for a special reissue. The functionality has just opened on April 18, the Easter weekend and brought in $ 48 million and has maintained a constant success at the box office.
Now, “Sinners” will return to nine Imax theaters across North America in 70 mm from Thursday, May 15 to Wednesday May 21. (The film still plays in theaters, simply not in as many IMAX screens.) These theaters include the city of the city of the city 19 + IMAX (Los Angeles), Irvine Spectrum and Imax (Irvine), Lincoln Square 13 + IMAX. Francisco), Indiana State Museum (Indianapolis), Arizona Mills Imax (Phoenix), Imax Association (Ft. Lauderdale), Webb Chapel Imax (Dallas) and Colossus Imax (Toronto).
“The public spoke and we listened,” said Jeff Goldstein, president of Global Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures. “If a film was to be experienced in this incredible format larger than life, it is” sinners “. Ryan delivered a film that has been adopted by fans who appreciate the know -how that goes in the creation of a film for this screen filling format and we wanted to give everyone the opportunity to see it – or to see it again – in 70 mm IMAX. »»
“Sinners” features Michael B. Jordan as twin brothers who return to their hometown of Mississippi after having survived the First World War, only to discover that even greater evil is waiting to welcome them. Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O’Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Miller and Delroy Lindo Co-Star.
Coogling nominated from the Oscars written and directed the film, which was congratulated by colleagues directors such as Spike Lee to be an “incredible” functionality which is crucial for cinema at that time. “I don’t think it’s a horror film. I don’t know exactly what the word is, but he invented a new genre,” Lee said in the original Podcast by Carmelo Anthony “at Brooklyn”. “I think we also need this film now.”
Coogler thanked his “cinematographic influences” for the film, credit Lee to inspire him in part.
“I had the gift of the opportunity to make a film inspired by my family and my ancestry, but it was always a film that we wanted to make for the public, in theaters,” wrote in a letter shared with Indiewire. “We have always had the mind about you, the public, and we have felt a profound responsibility to entertain you and move to the way only cinema can. I believe in the cinema. I believe in theatrical experience. I believe it is a necessary pillar of society. ”
He added the public: “We cannot do what we do if you do not present yourself. See your answer to the film invigorated me and many others who believe in this art form. And together, we can perhaps extend the definition of what a blockbuster is, what a horror film and what an Imax audience looks like.”
