Watch now (33 mins) | Ryan Coogler deserves a parade for delivering an original hit. Instead, the trades are so unwell they can't stop imagining failure as the duo talk box office
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Share WB’s Sinners is not only number one at the box office but also the highest-grossing original film based on no preexisting IP since Jordan Peele’s Us. In addition, it’s the first-ever horror movie to earn an A CinemaScore in the history of audience polling. Yet the Penske trades and gossip writers continue to double and triple-down on a blind-sourced narrative about Warner Bros. film bosses Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy and how “overpaid” Ryan Coogler was for Sinners. Folks like Ben Stiller are noticing: Never ones to jump on the sad, always-wrong trade sport of “who should lose their job,” Sean (who wrote about WB Sunday night) and Richard (who covered the incessant hectoring of Warners’ studio co-CEOs De Luca and Abdy last week) hopped on Substack Live earlier today to discuss Sinners’ success, why the conversation about the movie’s budget and rights is so misguided — and the rest of what you need to know from this weekend’s box office. We’d love to share more of these impromptu livestream conversations with you; please tell us what type of news you’d like to see us cover this way. Download the Substack app or look for email notifications when we go live. Leave a comment Follow us: Instagram | YouTube | Bluesky | TikTok | X | Threads | Facebook | WhatsApp
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