{"id":41078,"date":"2016-02-28T16:13:40","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T00:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=41078"},"modified":"2016-02-28T23:16:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T07:16:47","slug":"box-office-risen-drops-gods-of-egypt-flops-and-deadpool-becomes-the-3rd-biggest-r-rated-movie-ever-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2016\/02\/box-office-risen-drops-gods-of-egypt-flops-and-deadpool-becomes-the-3rd-biggest-r-rated-movie-ever-worldwide.html","title":{"rendered":"Box office: Risen<\/i> drops, Gods of Egypt<\/i> flops, and Deadpool<\/i> becomes the 3rd-biggest R-rated movie ever worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Risen<\/a><\/i> had a modest drop at the box office in its second week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The film earned an estimated $7 million between Friday and Sunday, which was good enough for fourth place \u2014 behind the third week of Deadpool<\/a><\/i>, the disastrously low opening weekend for Gods of Egypt<\/a><\/i>, and the fifth week of Kung Fu Panda 3<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n

Risen<\/i>\u2019s second-week gross was only 40.7% less than what the film made in its opening weekend<\/a>. That\u2019s comparable to the second-week drops of The Passion of the Christ<\/a><\/i> (36.5%) and The Nativity Story<\/a><\/i> (27.2%) and gentler than the second-week drops for Son of God<\/a><\/i> (59.5%), Noah<\/a><\/i> (61%) and Exodus: Gods and Kings<\/a><\/i> (66.4%).<\/p>\n

Risen<\/i>\u2019s cume now stands at $22.7 million. More on that in a minute.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Deadpool<\/i> earned $31.5 million in its third week to bring its domestic total up to $285.6 million \u2014 making it the third-highest-grossing R-rated film<\/a> in North America ever, behind 2004\u2019s The Passion of the Christ<\/i> and 2014\u2019s American Sniper<\/a><\/i>. And it is comfortably ahead of where those films were in their<\/i> third weekends.<\/p>\n

Deadpool<\/i> is already well ahead of both of those films overseas, but the $324.2 million it has earned overseas currently ranks behind eight other R-rated movies.<\/p>\n

However, when you add the domestic and foreign figures, Deadpool<\/i> is now the third-highest-grossing R-rated movie worldwide, behind The Matrix Reloaded<\/a><\/i> and The Passion of the Christ<\/i> \u2014 and it should pass The Passion<\/i> by tomorrow.<\/p>\n

In other news, Gods of Egypt<\/i> became the year\u2019s first big flop.<\/p>\n

The film, which cost $140 million to produce, made just a tenth of that at the North American box office this week, and the $14 million that it earned was easily the lowest opening for an Alex Proyas film<\/a> in wide release since 1998\u2019s Dark City<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n

As Deadline<\/a> notes, Gods of Egypt<\/i> was originally going to come out in April, two weeks after the release of Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice<\/a><\/i> \u2014 but when Ben-Hur<\/a><\/i> moved out of the February 26 release date<\/a>, Gods of Egypt<\/i> took the Bible epic\u2019s place.<\/p>\n

Alas, Gods of Egypt<\/i> got out of the way of Batman V Superman<\/i> only to get trounced by another superhero movie, the incredible success of which no one saw coming.<\/p>\n

Lionsgate, the studio behind Gods of Egypt<\/i>, had hoped their film would launch a new franchise, but that obviously won\u2019t happen now. The question now is whether the demise of this ancient-mythic sword-and-sandals flick will affect Lionsgate\u2019s plans for The Odyssey<\/a><\/i>, which the studio has also been talking up as a potential franchise<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Finally, Hail, Caesar!<\/a><\/i> dropped off the weekly top ten list in its fourth week at the North American box office. The Coen brothers\u2019 parody of (or homage to) Bible movies and other 1950s movie genres has grossed $28.4 million total so far.<\/p>\n

Now for a little more data about Risen<\/i> and where it sits relative to similar films:<\/p>\n

Risen<\/i> had the fourth-best first weekend of any \u201cfaith-based\u201d film last week, but \u2014 thanks to the fact that films like God\u2019s Not Dead<\/a><\/i> and War Room<\/a><\/i> barely dropped at all in their first few weeks \u2014 Risen<\/i> had only the seventh-best second weekend:<\/p>\n