Despite making a staggering 20% of its opening weekend revenue from IMAX screens, Sinners was kicked out of the juke joint to make way for Marvel’s Thunderbolts* today. A comparative seating chart displaying ticket sales for Sinners‘ last day vs. Thunderbolts*‘ first shows exactly what fans thought of that decision. (Hint: not good.) Luckily for anyone who hasn’t yet experienced the time-bending power of newcomer Miles Caton’s blues on one of the biggest screens in the world, Jeff Goldstein, President of Global Distribution for Warner Bros., got the message. “Audiences have spoken and we listened,” he said, per IndieWire. “If ever a film needed to be experienced in this incredible larger-than-life format, it’s Sinners. Ryan has delivered a film that has been embraced by fans who appreciate the craftsmanship that goes into creating a film for this screen-filling format and we wanted to give everyone the opportunity to see it—or see it again—in 70mm IMAX.”
Of course, the Michael B. Jordan-led film will still be available through the short break in all its other formats, which you can watch Coogler run down in an excellent explainer video for Kodak. You’ll want to catch this one in IMAX though before it leaves again if one of the nine screens showing hosting it is accessible to you. (That’s City Walk Stadium 19 + IMAX in Los Angeles, Irvine Spectrum and IMAX in Irvine, Lincoln Square 13 + IMAX in New York, Metreon 16 + IMAX in San Francisco, Indiana State Museum in Indianapolis, Arizona Mills IMAX in Phoenix, Autonation IMAX in Ft. Lauderdale, Webb Chapel IMAX in Dallas, and Colossus IMAX in Toronto.) The special 70mm screenings run from May 15 through May 21 before the movie slinks back into the darkness once more.
