{"id":72512,"date":"2022-01-30T15:44:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T23:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=72512"},"modified":"2022-01-30T15:44:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T23:44:24","slug":"box-office-redeeming-love-drops-48-in-its-second-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2022\/01\/box-office-redeeming-love-drops-48-in-its-second-week.html","title":{"rendered":"Box office: Redeeming Love<\/i> drops 48% in its second week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Just a quick note on how Redeeming Love<\/a><\/i> did in its second week at the box office.<\/p>\n

The film, which sets the biblical story of Hosea and Gomer during the California Gold Rush, earned an estimated $1.9 million<\/a> this weekend.<\/p>\n

This represents a drop of 47.6% from the film\u2019s opening last week, despite the fact that it played in slightly more theatres (1,963 this week compared to 1,903 last week).<\/p>\n

It was the steepest drop of any film in wide release. Scream<\/i> dropped 39.8%, while all other films in the top ten had drops below 22% \u2014 or, in the case of American Underdog<\/i>, Ghostbusters: Afterlife<\/i> and Licorice Pizza<\/i>, went up<\/i> compared to last week.<\/p>\n

Even so, with no new movies in wide release, Redeeming Love<\/i> held on to its position as the 4th-highest-grossing movie of the week, behind Spider-Man: No Way Home<\/a><\/i> ($11 million), Scream<\/a><\/i> ($7.4 million), and Sing 2<\/a><\/i> ($4.8 million).<\/p>\n

Moviegoing as a whole went down this week. As Tom Brueggeman notes at IndieWire<\/a>, this was the slowest weekend at the box office in over eight months:<\/p>\n

In its absence (and without any other wide opening), the three day total [for all movies combined] will come to only $35 million. That makes it the weakest weekend since May 21-23 last year, just before \u201cA Quiet Place II\u201d opened and theaters started seeing steady improvement. . . .<\/p>\n

This weekend only grossed 43 percent of what the same date did in 2020, pre-COVID. That weekend had the Super Bowl to contend with (two weeks later this year) and, as usual, only minor distributor interest in launching new titles. The storm, though it reduced sales by perhaps $5 million this weekend, is far less a factor than the game normally is.<\/p>\n

With this weekend added, our four-week rolling comparison (a far better gauge than any one week) to the same period two years ago is now at 45 percent. Obviously a lack of titles is a major reason, but the shortfall also reflects an overall drop in performance for most films compared to what previous results would have been.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I believe this would be the lowest four-week rolling comparison since The Suicide Squad<\/i> opened on August 6. Brueggeman said the average was 44%<\/a> then.<\/p>\n

Prior to that, I think you\u2019d have to go back to mid-June<\/a> \u2014 to a point between the releases of A Quiet Place Part II<\/i> and F9<\/i> \u2014 to find an even lower four-week rolling comparison (when three weeks were between 42% and 45% and the fourth week fell to 23%).<\/p>\n

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Here is how Redeeming Love<\/i> currently ranks at the North American box office next to other Bible-themed movies that have played in theatres over the past 43 years:<\/p>\n

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  1. 2004 \u2014 The Passion of the Christ<\/i> \u2014 $370.8 million\n<\/li>
  2. 1998 \u2014 The Prince of Egypt<\/i> \u2014 $101.4 million\n<\/li>
  3. 2014 \u2014 Noah<\/i> \u2014 $101.2 million\n<\/li>
  4. 2014 \u2014 Exodus: Gods and Kings<\/i> \u2014 $65 million\n<\/li>
  5. 2014 \u2014 Son of God<\/i> \u2014 $59.7 million\n<\/li>
  6. 2017 \u2014 The Shack<\/i> \u2014 $57.4 million\n<\/li>
  7. 2009 \u2014 Year One<\/i> \u2014 $43.3 million\n<\/li>
  8. 2017 \u2014 The Star<\/i> \u2014 $40.9 million\n<\/li>
  9. 2006 \u2014 The Nativity Story<\/i> \u2014 $37.6 million\n<\/li>
  10. 2016 \u2014 Risen<\/i> \u2014 $36.9 million\n<\/li>
  11. 1981 \u2014 History of the World, Part I<\/i> \u2014 $31.7 million\n<\/li>
  12. 2016 \u2014 Hail, Caesar!<\/i> \u2014 $30.5 million\n<\/li>
  13. 2016 \u2014 Ben-Hur<\/i> \u2014 $26.4 million\n<\/li>
  14. 2002 \u2014 Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie<\/i> \u2014 $25.6 million\n<\/li>
  15. 1979 \u2014 Monty Python\u2019s Life of Brian<\/i> \u2014 $20 million\n<\/li>
  16. 2018 \u2014 Paul, Apostle of Christ<\/i> \u2014 $17.6 million\n<\/li>
  17. 1980 \u2014 Wholly Moses!<\/i> \u2014 $14.2 million\n<\/li>
  18. 2021 \u2014 Christmas with The Chosen: The Messengers<\/i> \u2014 $13.7 Million\n<\/li>
  19. 2006 \u2014 One Night with the King<\/i> \u2014 $13.4 million\n<\/li>
  20. 1988 \u2014 The Last Temptation of Christ<\/i> \u2014 $8.4 million\n<\/li>
  21. 2022 \u2014 Redeeming Love<\/i> \u2014 $6.5 million<\/b>\n<\/li>
  22. 2016 \u2014 The Young Messiah<\/i> \u2014 $6.5 million\n<\/li>
  23. 1985 \u2014 King David<\/i> \u2014 $5.1 million\n<\/li>
  24. 2018 \u2014 Samson<\/i> \u2014 $4.7 million\n<\/li>
  25. 2003 \u2014 The Gospel of John<\/i> \u2014 $4.1 million\n<\/li>
  26. 2014 \u2014 The Song<\/i> \u2014 $1.0 million\n<\/li>
  27. 2007 \u2014 The Ten Commandments<\/i> \u2014 $952,820\n<\/li>
  28. 2018 \u2014 Mary Magdalene<\/i> \u2014 $124,741<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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