UPDATE: 2025-07-08 08:36 EST BY BRENNAN KLEIN
The King Of Kings' Week 2 Drop Has Been Adjusted For Sunday
On Sunday, new projections showedThe King of Kingsdropping 11% rather than 9%, as reported on Saturday. It is now the 39th smallest week 2 drop of all time (behindHappy Feet’s -10.8%) rather than the 35th.
A new hitbiblical moviehas accomplished an amazing feat during its sophomore weekend. Biblical movies have been part of cinema more or less since the beginning of the art form. In Hollywood history, this largely took the form ofbiblical epicssuch as 1956’sThe Ten Commandments, which was directed by iconic Oscar-winning filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille, and 1959’sBen-Hur, which is tied withTitanicandThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the Kingas the movie that has won the most Oscars in history with a total of 11, including Best Picture.
In the modern era, there have been fewer major wide-release religious movies at that scale, though the biblical movie has never entirely vanished. In fact,they exhibit a range of genres that is potentially even widerthan in the 1950s. While biblical epics still exist, such as the 2014Darren Aronofsky movieNoah, and the same year’s Ridley Scott movieExodus: Gods and Kings, other recent biblical movies include the horror-inflected 2004 dramaThe Passion of the Christ, the animated comedyThe Star, and the musicalJourney to Bethlehem.
The King of Kings Is Set For A Record-Setting Sophomore Weekend
The Movie Stars Oscar Isaac As Jesus Christ
The King of Kings has continued its record theatrical run with a new major achievement. The 2025 animated movie, which was written and directed by Seong-ho Jang, is adapted from the Charles Dickens children’s bookThe Life of Our Lordand follows Dickens himself (Kenneth Branagh) telling the story of the life of Jesus Christ (Oscar Isaac) to his son Walter (Roman Griffin Davis). TheKing of Kingsreleasekicked off by debuting with $19.4 million andbreakingThe Prince of Egypt’s record for the highest-grossing opening weekend for a biblical animated movie.
The voice cast ofThe King of Kingsalso includes Uma Thurman as Catherine Dickens, Pierce Brosnan as Pontius Pilate, Ben Kingsley as High Priest Caiaphas, Forest Whitaker as Peter, and Mark Hamill as King Herod.
PerDeadline, as of Saturday morning,The King of Kingsis projected to take in a 3-day total of $17.5 million by the end of its sophomore weekend at the domestic box office, during which it is playing in 3,535 theaters. This will see it have a week-on-week drop of just -9% following its debut. As reflected in theBox Office Mojo, this will see it surpassing 2004’sMeet the Fockers(-9.5%) asthe 35th smallest week 2 drop of all time for a saturated wide releaseplaying in 3,000 theaters or more.
Our Take On The King Of Kings' Sophomore Weekend
The True Measure Of The Movie Will Be Week 3
The sophomore weekend ofThe King of Kingsis a remarkable achievement, putting it among heavy-hitters such asCrazy Rich Asians(-6.4%),Avatar(-1.8%), andThe Greatest Showman(+76.3%). However,the likely cause of this narrow drop is the fact that it is Easter weekend, when abiblical movieabout Jesus would likely most appeal to its core demographic. The true test of the movie’s box office mettle will likely be its third week. If it continues to have slim drops, that will be more concrete proof that it is performing well on its own merits.
