{"id":25227,"date":"2014-12-11T21:50:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T05:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=25227"},"modified":"2014-12-15T12:20:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T20:20:31","slug":"box-office-forecast-how-will-exodus-gods-and-kings-perform-theatrically-compared-to-noah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/12\/box-office-forecast-how-will-exodus-gods-and-kings-perform-theatrically-compared-to-noah.html","title":{"rendered":"Box-office forecast: How will Exodus: Gods and Kings<\/i> perform theatrically compared to Noah<\/i>?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"exodus-scott-bale\"<\/a>The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i> says Exodus: Gods and Kings<\/a><\/i> may gross between $25 million and $30 million when it opens in North America this weekend.<\/p>\n

That would be slightly ahead of the $25.6 million that Son of God<\/a><\/i> opened to in February<\/a>, but considerably behind the $43.7 million that Noah<\/a><\/i> opened to in March<\/a> \u2014 but movies that open in December tend to stay afloat over the holidays, so Exodus<\/i> could still be the year\u2019s biggest Bible movie when all is said and done. (The Prince of Egypt<\/a><\/i>, to cite one precedent, opened in December 1998 to only $14.5 million and still grossed $101.4 million in total \u2014 which is slightly more than Noah<\/i> made in North America.)<\/p>\n

To look at this another way: Son of God<\/i> opened to $25.6 million and grossed $59.7 million in total, and Noah<\/i> opened to $43.7 million and grossed $101.2 million in total, so both films made about 2.3 times their opening \u2014 but there is good reason to believe that a film released just before Christmas can have a bigger multiple than that.<\/p>\n

An opening of over $25 million would give this film the sixth- or seventh-best opening of Ridley Scott\u2019s career<\/a>. The top five, all of which opened to more than $34 million, include two sequels (Hannibal<\/a><\/i>, Prometheus<\/a><\/i>) and three Russell Crowe movies (American Gangster<\/a><\/i>, Robin Hood<\/a><\/i>, Gladiator<\/a><\/i>). A sixth film, Black Hawk Down<\/a><\/i>, opened in limited release but then earned $28.6 million in its first weekend of wide release. The other fifteen films directed by Scott all opened to less than $20 million.<\/p>\n

An opening of over $25 million would also give this film the fifth- or sixth-best opening of Christian Bale\u2019s career<\/a>, or possibly even the seventh-best, behind the three Batman movies<\/a>, the Terminator movie<\/a>, and possibly Public Enemies<\/a><\/i> (which opened to $25.3 million in 2009). The animated film Pocahontas<\/i>, which opened in limited release, also earned $29.5 million in its first weekend of wide release.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ridley Scott’s Moses movie will probably have a smaller first weekend than Noah<\/i>, but it could make more money in the long run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[19,762,743,27],"class_list":["post-25227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-box-office","tag-christian-bale","tag-exodus-2015","tag-ridley-scott"],"yoast_head":"\nBox-office forecast: How will Exodus: Gods and Kings perform theatrically compared to Noah?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ridley Scott's Moses movie will probably have a smaller first weekend than Noah, but it could make more money in the long run.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/12\/box-office-forecast-how-will-exodus-gods-and-kings-perform-theatrically-compared-to-noah.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Box-office forecast: How will Exodus: Gods and Kings perform theatrically compared to Noah?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ridley Scott's Moses movie will probably have a smaller first weekend than Noah, but it could make more money in the long run.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/12\/box-office-forecast-how-will-exodus-gods-and-kings-perform-theatrically-compared-to-noah.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FilmChat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-12-12T05:50:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-12-15T20:20:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/wp.production.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/files\/2014\/03\/exodus-scott-bale-300x210.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Peter T. 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