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Mint Bangalore
|May 10, 2025
The bravest thing Hollywood did this year was to surrender.
Ryan Coogler, the audacious director behind Fruitvale Station, Black Panther and Creed, signed a creative production deal so revolutionary it deserves a standing ovation.
For his new blockbuster Sinners, currently in theaters and easily the best IMAX experience you'll have this year, Coogler dictated the terms—all the terms. Not only does Coogler direct and produce Sinners, he owns it. Future spin-offs, sequels, series, side-projects—all will happen (or not happen) entirely at his discretion. The studio doesn't get to override him, replace him or dilute his vision with corporate gloss. In an era where "franchise" is synonymous with "factory farming," this is a proclamation of emancipation.
This isn't a standard "first-look" deal, where a creator gets the privilege of being considered first...only to eventually watch a studio rip apart the baby they midwifed. Coogler's arrangement is unprecedented: final-cut authority, narrative control, and crucially, an ownership-stake that ensures his hands never leave the wheel.
Good. Sinners is exactly the kind of unclassifiable miracle no modern studio would greenlight by committee: a blood-soaked, soul-soaring vampire musical steeped in Southern blues, spiritual longing, and righteous fury. It swings between violence and balladry, bar fights and gospel breakdowns. It's a fierce, strange, gorgeous piece of cinema—and its triumphant reception proves that audiences crave films that sound like one voice singing, not a marketing committee warbling off-key. It's spectacularly original.
Coogler's win isn't about one movie. It's about what could come next. His contract cracks open an idea that is scaring the studios: that storytellers should control the stories.
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