Ryan Coogler's 'Sinners' tops the box office again, much to Hollywood's chagrin

Ryan Coogler's Sinners was released two Fridays ago to fantastic reviews and trade paper disgust. It's not that the trade papers had particular feelings about Sinners as a film, they were loudly angry that Coogler successfully negotiated the kind of deal that white auteurs would receive, notably that Coogler gets a percentage of the gross (a front-end deal rather than a backend deal) and that ownership of Sinners reverts to Coogler after 25 years. Hollywood's white gatekeepers were furious! The trade papers were desperate to make it sound like Sinners would never recover Warner Bros' . . .