{"id":117376,"date":"2025-08-04T05:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T05:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/117376\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T05:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T05:09:08","slug":"box-office-kingdom-struggles-to-sustain-momentum-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/117376\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: Kingdom Struggles to Sustain Momentum in US"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"BO:<\/p>\n

The North American box office can be unforgiving.<\/strong> No matter how strong the opening, a film that doesn’t receive unanimously positive feedback tends to falter quickly\u2014sometimes within its very first weekend. Vijay Deverakonda\u2019s Kingdom is the latest example.<\/p>\n

The film surprised everyone, including its makers, with a stellar start \u2014 earning over $900K from Thursday premiere shows.<\/p>\n

Despite Vijay Deverakonda not delivering a hit in recent times, Kingdom posted a phenomenal $1.2 million by the end of Day 1, surpassing Nani\u2019s HIT 3. Many expected it to easily cross the $2 million mark over the extended weekend.<\/p>\n

However, the momentum didn\u2019t last. From Friday onward, collections began to decline, and by Sunday, the film had nearly collapsed, earning just $67K.<\/p>\n

The box office numbers are as follows: Premieres and Day 1 brought in $1,202K, Day 2 added $189K, Day 3 collected $168K, and Day 4 (Sunday) contributed $67K, bringing the total weekend gross to $1,626,000.<\/p>\n

While the total may seem impressive in isolation, Kingdom needs to gross $2 million in the U.S. to break even. At the current pace, that milestone looks increasingly unlikely.<\/p>\n

The sharp drop is being attributed to a weak second half and the absence of hit songs \u2014 factors that failed to sustain the buzz beyond the initial hype.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The North American box office can be unforgiving. No matter how strong the opening, a film that doesn’t…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":117377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[171,62630,53,67,132,68,73413,63627],"class_list":{"0":"post-117376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-kingdom","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-usa-boxoffice","15":"tag-vijay-devarakonda"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114968773579026543","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}