Hello, everyone. Welcome to Slash Film Daily. Today is Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025. On today's episode of the show,

we're going to be talking about the latest film and TV news. My name is Ben Pearson. I'm an editor at

slashfilm.com and I'm joined on today's episode by Slashfilm staff writer and box office analyst,

Ryan Scott. Hey, hey, everyone. How's it going? All right, Ryan, before we get into the news, I think it's worth pausing for a minute and just talking about the success of sinners at the box office.

We didn't have a chance to talk about that on yesterday's show, but I think it's definitely worth pointing out.

So what are your big takeaways from Ryan Cougler's latest movies, financial performance, I guess?

Well, the one thing I should point out is that the numbers were even better than

previously revealed.

So the weekend numbers were reported around $45 million.

However, Sunday was better than expected.

So the official number was $48 million.

So anytime you have a movie that already overperforms expectations,

and then when the Monday actuals come in,

that number is even higher than was reported.

I mean, you're just in, you know, excellent territory.

Truly, truly, like, wonderful stuff.

So, so, yeah, Cinners debuted to $63.5 million globally, with $48 million of that coming domestically.

I mean, it's, you know, it's very, very good.

Now, this is still a very expensive movie, but, you know, with all of the markers that we have,

it is well on track to justify the investment.

I think, you know, we learned a the investment. I think, you know,

we learned a lot from it in that, you know, Ryan Cooghler has clearly asserted himself as one of those very rare directors like, you know, your Christopher Dolans, your Quentin Tarantino's,

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