Battle at the Box Office 4/21/25
Despite being Easter weekend, audiences were down to blaspheme as Sinners took down A Minecraft Movie and was #1 at the box office.
Sinners took in $48 million domestically for the weekend and was in about 700 fewer theaters than Minecraft. For Ryan Coogler, it’s his third-best opening ever behind Black Panther and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and it’s Michael B. Jordan’s third-best opening behind Black Panther and Creed III. The movie got an A CinemaScore, the first time in 35 years that a horror movie received such a high grade, so word of mouth will probably be off the charts. Worldwide, Sinners has made $63.5 million, and it seems like it might struggle more internationally than domestically, similar to Twisters, which was a massive hit domestically but didn’t do much in other markets outside of North America. Additionally, Sinners was the first original film since Nope to open over $40 million.
A Minecraft Movie slipped to second place but still made another $40.4 million. It’s now at $343.8 million domestically and over $716 million worldwide. It’s currently the highest-grossing film of 2025 domestically and the second-highest-grossing film worldwide.
The King of Kings seems to have taken full advantage of its proximity to Easter, dropping only 11% from last weekend and making another $17.5 million. It now has $45.6 million domestically and $49.2 million worldwide.
The Amateur dropped to fourth place with $7 million, taking its total domestically to $27.1 million. Warfare rounded out the top five with another $4.8 million, while Drop…dropped out of the top five in its second weekend, ending up in sixth place with $3.2 million.
COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can’t Sing took seventh place with $2.8 million in 800 theaters. It’s an anime movie featuring digital pop star Hatsune Miku. The re-release of Focus Features’ 2005 version of Pride & Prejudice took eighth place with $2.8 million, bringing that movie’s domestic total up to $41.3 million.
The weekend’s best per-theater average went to David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds, which earned $16,454 in each of its three theaters.
