After buzzy campaign, theater-less Mississippi town that inspired ‘Sinners’ will finally get to see the film

Clarksdale, Mississippi – which serves as inspiration for the setting of the Michael B. Jordan-starring film “Sinners” – does not have a local cineplex, but the city is finally getting a long-awaited screening.

Clarksdale, Mississippi – which serves as inspiration for the setting of the Michael B. Jordan-starring film “Sinners” – does not have a local cineplex, but the city is finally getting a long-awaited screening. Warner Bros. Pictures confirmed in a press release that screenings of the hit movie will be held in Clarksdale this week, with director Ryan Coogler and other members of the filmmaking team set to attend. (Warner Bros. Pictures, which produced and distributed “Sinners,” is owned by CNN’s parent company Warner Bros. Discovery.) The release stipulated that the screenings and related cultural events will be open and free to the public, but Clarksdale and Coahoma County residents will receive priority access. The drive to have a screening held in Clarksdsle was initially sparked by community organizer Tyler Yarbrough, who earlier this year asked the filmmakers and studio behind the project to host a screening in the city in an open letter. Yarbrough, along with Clarksdale mayor Chuck Espy, previously spoke to CNN’s Victor Blackwell for an “Art is Life” segment earlier this month, and shared their hopes that the screening would become a reality. “Clarksdale is a ways away from a movie theater,” Yarbrough said at the time, later adding that it took him about an hour and a half to drive to a theater that was showing the film.