The movie everyone is talking about from this weekend is Sinners. From the ending to the villain inspiration, it's a movie that begs you to talk about it after. But some conversations should be more calculated and not done for clickbait. Last night, as numbers for Sinners came in, we learned it was opening to a $61 million weekend worldwide. That usually is cause for celebration, but on Variety's X channel, they put out this tweet. — (@) Immediately, people like Franklin Leonard, Ben Stiller, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Kristen Schaal, and many other Hollywood personalities fired back at the tweet, calling out the negative framing and pursuit of clicks. Look, this is where I'll stop to acknowledge I work for a publication also in search of clicks. Your clicks keep us alive here, we need them. But I would hope you would roast us if we put out a headline social story like this one. So here are the facts inside the Variety article we can look at in the light of day...Sinners got $15.6 million overseas after opening in 71 markets. In North America, the movie made around $48 million. That means that Sinners made a total of $63.5 million in its global debut. The movie's budget was around $90 million, and we can assume P&A probably put it closer to $150 million all in. So, in its opening weekend, it got to around 40% of its money back, andi its strong word of mouth and debut above projections should...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Yesterday