He is really arising. One week before Easter, three of the top 10 titles on Cash office This weekend was faith -based stories about the life of Jesus Christ, including Angel Studios animated “The King of Kings” as well as ”The selected: Last supper ”parts 2 and 3, which are released by Fathom entertainment.
“The King of Kings” opened for $ 19.3 million this weekend from 3,200 screens and ended No. 2 behind “A Minecraft movie“Who had a strong second weekend and only dropped 50 percent for another staggering $ 80.6 million features, giving its domestic sum to $ 280.9 million. (Jason Momoa looks a bit like Jesus, right?)
And for “The Chosen”, part 3 of Season 5 opened this weekend and ended up in sixth place and took $ 6 million in domestic, while Part 2 held at place # 10 and earned $ 932,000. So far through its third weekend in theaters, all three sets of section have collected a combined $ 36.3 million, including $ 19.3 million for Part 1. This weekend for Easter Sunday, all three parts will be available in theaters for a ticket price so you can bend the entire season in theaters.
Let’s start with how big a performance “The King of Kings” is for Angel studios. $ 19.3 million is only shy for the opening for “Sound of Freedom”, which of course ended to collect $ 250 million worldwide. It would be a surprise about this animated family film If Jesus did well, but it will easily become Angel Studios second highest gross title ever, and with an A+ Cinemascore, a rating that only 128 films have earned and one of only five animated films not made by Disney or Pixar to do so, it should carry well.
Angel stated that it is the biggest opening for an animated faith -based movie ever and knocked out “The Prince of Egypt” about the history of Moses from 1998. That movie opened for $ 14.5 million, which with inflation would have been $ 28.3 million, but it ended to earn $ 218 million worldwide, so perhaps a similar loft for “King of King” would not be a “king of king.
“King of Kings” has an impressive voice herd including Oscar Isaac as Jesus Christ, Pierce Brosnan, Kenneth Branagh, Uma Thurman, Forest Whitaker, Jim Cummings and Ben Kingsley, all of which Angel exclaimed in their marketing. Angel also heavily pushed the film through social media and framed it as an impact-driven event for families. But Angel also talked up his Angel Guild in his messages, which meant that the film simply acted because its many Angel Guild members had already seen and approved the film and in some cases literally invested in their success.
Angel is planning another Animated biblical epic is called “Young David” That it hopes will have a similar level of success.
For “The Chosen” it is remarkable to see how the series has grown theater and how big the title it has become for Fathom. While an Angel Studios is originally released, Fathom has been the theater partner for creator Dallas Jenkin’s show since 2021.
Fathom released the first two episodes of season 5 to an opening of $ 11.7 million, which was before Season 4’s opening of $ 7.4 million. But Fathom learned a thing or two for the roll-out of season 5 and has asked the rolling every week so that people who did not see the first two episodes in week 1 would have the opportunity to binge all episodes to that point, and it will culminate in the Easter weekend Binge-A-Thon available via 500 theaters. “Events” may not be in Fathom’s company name anymore, but it still thinks about all its views as event shows to optimize voter turnout and through the average per screen.
If there is someone who should look at how “The Chosen” still creates event buzz week after week, it is Sam Mendes and his four Beatles movies, like Sony intends to release everyone in April 2028. Whether these movies are released at once or have waived one every week of the month, it will have to be marketed as an event that makes people want to come back every week or bend all four movies together for a single ticket price.
John Lennon once said that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus, but we will see if it ends up.
