As Holy Week comes to a close, Warner Bros’ $90 million-plus net gamble Sinners might find some salvation at the box office, that is in the U.S. and Canada at least, with a potential $40M+ opening.

Note that as far as comps go, Jordan Peele’s sci-fi Nope debuted to $44.3M and legged out to a $123.2M domestic cume. The difference is that Sinners stars quite the leading man in Michael B. Jordan, in his fifth reteam with Ryan Coogler in the director’s chair. Another difference is the budget before P&a, with Sinners costing at least 32% more than Nope‘s net $68M. Sinners was shot in New Orleans with Louisiana film tax credits, and Domain Capital Group covered 10% of the budget as part of its Warners slate deal. Both Sinners and Nope are R-rated, with the former at 2 hours and 17 minutes seven minutes longer than the latter.

Sinners, which Coogler also wrote and produced,...