Angel Studios’ “King of Kings” is flirting with massive breakout territory as it enters Friday with nearly $17M worth of presold tickets. This would imply we're looking at over $25M worth of tickets sold through Sunday — and we haven’t even reached Easter/Holy weekend yet. This one will have legs.
The animated biblical epic, which retells the life story of Jesus Christ, debuts in theaters today; the voice cast includes the likes of Oscar Isaac, Uma Thurman, Kenneth Branagh, Pierce Brosnan, Mark Hamill, and Forest Whitaker. The faith-based film has a 66% on Rotten Tomatoes, but audience scores are, unsurprisingly, through-the-roof amazing.
The film, loosely based on the Charles Dickens book "The Life of Our Lord," was directed by VFX expert Seong-ho Jang, and comes to us from the distributor of “Sound of Freedom,” a breakout indie hit that managed to gross nearly $250M domestically back in the summer of 2023.
The film is set to shoot in fall 2027. The idea would be to release it in December 2028, timed to Trump's exit from office. Oh, and it's now Warner Bros.' indie label, Clockwork, that's backing the film.