Ryan Coogler's 'Sinners' is getting an Imax 70mm re-release

“Sinners,” the genre-bending deed from writer-director Ryan Coogler, is acceptable to beryllium re-released successful Imax 70mm from May 15 to 21 pursuing “overwhelming fashionable and captious response,” Warner Bros. Pictures announced Thursday.

The movie has soared astatine the container office, grossing much than $175 cardinal worldwide aft 2 weeks successful theaters. Sales from Imax 70mm, which offers audiences a bigger and sharper moviegoing experience, accounted for astir 20% of opening play box-office figures, Imax main prime serviceman David Keighley precocious told The Times.

“Audiences person spoken and we listened,” Jeff Goldstein, Warner Bros. Pictures’ president of planetary distribution, said successful a connection Thursday. “If ever a movie needed to beryllium experienced successful this unthinkable larger-than-life format, it’s ‘Sinners.’ Ryan has delivered a movie that has been embraced by fans who admit the craftsmanship that goes into creating a movie for this screen-filling format and we wanted to springiness everyone the accidental to spot it — oregon spot it again — successful 70mm IMAX.”

The movie was primitively shown successful lone 10 Imax 70mm theaters globally. The re-release volition bring the movie backmost to 9 North American theaters: Harkins Arizona Mills 18 & Imax successful Tempe; Regal Irvine Spectrum & Imax successful Irvine; Universal Cinema AMC astatine CityWalk Hollywood & Imax successful Los Angeles; AMC Metreon 16 & Imax successful San Francisco; AutoNation Imax Theater successful Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Imax Theatre successful the Indiana State Museum successful Indianapolis; AMC Lincoln Square 13 & Imax successful New York City; Cinemark Dallas & Imax successful Dallas; and Cineplex Cinemas Vaughan & Imax successful Ontario, Canada.

“The joyousness the assemblage gets from seeing the movie successful the Imax 70mm format is similar nary other,” Taylor Umphenour, an Imax 70mm movie projectionist, told The Times successful an email. “So overmuch enactment goes into these movie runs from each involved. It’s fantastic to beryllium projecting these sold-out shows with the highest presumption standards for incredibly grateful audiences.”

Patrick Caldwell, the projectionist astatine Cinemark Dallas, said helium was “jazzed” astir the re-release, and that “virtually each amusement present has been sold out.”