{"id":25606,"date":"2014-12-21T21:28:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T05:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=25606"},"modified":"2014-12-21T22:43:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T06:43:32","slug":"box-office-exodus-gods-and-kings-loses-its-audience-faster-than-any-recent-bible-movie-or-ridley-scott-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/12\/box-office-exodus-gods-and-kings-loses-its-audience-faster-than-any-recent-bible-movie-or-ridley-scott-film.html","title":{"rendered":"Box office: Exodus: Gods and Kings<\/i> loses its audience faster than any recent Bible movie or Ridley Scott film"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"exodus-yahoo-5\"<\/a>Exodus: Gods and Kings<\/a><\/i> already had the smallest first-weekend gross<\/a> of the year\u2019s three Bible movies. Now it has the steepest second-weekend drop.<\/p>\n

Exodus<\/i> earned an estimated $8.1 million this weekend<\/a>, which represents a drop of 66.6% since last week. (Yes, that\u2019s the actual number being floated by Box Office Mojo.) That\u2019s steeper than the 59.5% by which Son of God<\/a><\/i> dropped in March and the 61% by which Noah<\/a><\/i> dropped in April.<\/p>\n

Exodus<\/i>, which opened at #1 last week, had to settle for #4 this week, behind the third installments in the Hobbit<\/a><\/i> and Night at the Museum<\/a><\/i> franchises as well as Annie<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n

Prior to this, the steepest drop for a Ridley Scott film had been the 59.4% by which Prometheus<\/a><\/i> dropped in June 2012<\/a>. The second-weekend gross for Exodus<\/i> is also smaller than the $9.6 million that Kingdom of Heaven<\/a><\/i>, Ridley Scott\u2019s previous epic box-office disappointment, earned during its second weekend in May 2005<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The box-office boost provided by the Christmas season could<\/i> lift Exodus<\/i> beyond the $59.7 million that Son of God<\/i> earned earlier this year. But it seems doubtful that Exodus<\/i> will come anywhere close to approaching the earnings of Noah<\/i> or The Prince of Egypt<\/a><\/i>, both of which grossed just over $100 million in North America.<\/p>\n

Here is where Exodus<\/i> currently ranks among the Bible films of the past 35 years:<\/p>\n