Exodus: Gods And Kings ($268,031,828)

detective392 wrote:Just going to wait for the directors cut/extended edition on BD.

WyldeMan wrote:

detective392 wrote:Just going to wait for the directors cut/extended edition on BD.

Which version?

The Director's Cut / The Extended Edition / The Complete Edition / The Epic Edition or my personal favorite The Final Edition, which will be released six months BEFORE the Epic Edition.

Weekend Report: 'Exodus' is Weak 'King'

by Ray Subers


Exodus: Gods and Kings missed the mark this weekend, though it still easily ruled over another very quiet weekend at the box office.

Meanwhile, Chris Rock's Top Five got off to a decent start, and Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice did big business at a few theaters in New York and Los Angeles.

The Top 12 earned $76.7 million, which makes this one of the slowest weekends of the year. Business will pick up next weekend, though it does look like this will be one of the worst Decembers in recent memory.

Playing at 3,503 locations, Exodus: Gods and Kings opened to an estimated $24.1 million this weekend. That doesn't compare favorably to this year's previous Biblical movies, as its nearly $20 million lower than Noah's debut and roughly on par with the much-less-expensive Son of God.

That's not really an apples-to-apples comparison, though, as opening weekends in December are historically muted. Still, Exodus doesn't look all that impressive against past December releases, either: it was roughly on par with The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader ($24 million) and The Golden Compass ($25.8 million).

While this is definitely not a good debut, it would be premature to write the movie's obituary. If Exodus holds up like the third Narnia movie, it will wind up eclipsing Noah's $101.2 million; that's a fine result when considering the movie's international potential.

At the same time, though, there's reason to believe the movie won't hold up nearly as well as Narnia. It's received horrible reviews (27 percent on Rotten Tomatoes), and word-of-mouth seems mixed (it has a poor "B-" CinemaScore). There's a chance, then, that Exodus plays like The Golden Compass, which would translate to a total below $70 million. That would be a hugely disappointing result.

It's likely that Exodus winds up somewhere in between those two. If it follows the pattern of the last two Hobbit movies—which opened on the same weekend over the past two years—Exodus would wrap up in the $85 to $90 million range.

The movie's audience was 54 percent male and 65 percent over the age of 25. 3D screens accounted for 44 percent of the gross, which is an above-average result for the format.

ForeverBlu wrote:ROTFLMAO!

WyldeMan wrote:

ForeverBlu wrote:ROTFLMAO!

Is that your review of the movie or just a comment. Judging by what i've read, it could really go either way.

joey con carne wrote:So with all those confirmed versions coming out for this movie, any chance they can slip in an Unrated or Definitive Edition? I think they might do something like that because people will want to see what the movie contained before the big wigs got their hands on it (Director's vision and what not).