--- title: Box Office: 'Noah' Washes Away Competition description: The biblical drama directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Russell Crowe rises above a flood of controversy to earn a $44 million opening canonical: https://time.com/42934/noah-box-office/ author: Richard Corliss article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-30T18:50:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T07:02:21.403Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Box Office: 'Noah' Washes Away Competition og:description: The biblical drama directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Russell Crowe rises above a flood of controversy to earn a $44 million opening og:url: https://time.com/42934/noah-box-office/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt96ddb9595aa50bb4/6986880ce8524b5663602197/film-review-noah_yang1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1500 og:image:height: 844 og:image:alt: Noah og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Box Office: 'Noah' Washes Away Competition twitter:description: The biblical drama directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Russell Crowe rises above a flood of controversy to earn a $44 million opening twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt96ddb9595aa50bb4/6986880ce8524b5663602197/film-review-noah_yang1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Audiences Say Yes to _Noah_, 'Hasta la Vista, Baby' to Arnold > Sponsored content. 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The word was not so good for another ancient figure of almost biblical stature: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s new movie tanked. Starring Russell Crowe as the Patron of the First Ark, _Noah_ had affronted some Christian literalists with its giant rock men, its weird visions and the occasionally dark motives of its protagonist. But [the film corralled enough religious leaders](http://time.com/35667/noah-movie-religious-leaders/), including [Pope Francis](http://time.com/30136/russell-crowe-pope-meeting/) (with whom Crowe snagged an audience), to salve canonical objections. More important, the noise, whether in praise or condemnation, gave the risky venture reams of free publicity that paid off here and abroad, where _Noah_ has earned another $51.1 million. Costing a hefty $130 million to produce, the movie has a prayer of achieving Hollywood’s version of a papal blessing: the black ink of profit on its ledger. (**MORE:** [Corliss Reviews _Noah_](http://time.com/38365/noah-movie-darren-aronofsky-russell-crowe/)) Attracting an audience that was split evenly between men and women, but skewed older — 74% were over the age of 25 — _Noah_ got pasted with a toxic C rating in the CinemaScore survey of first-nighters. Of recent big-budget entries, only _The Wolf of Wall Street_ posted a score that low. But two things: 63% of those polled rated _Noah_ A or B, 23% C and 14% D or F, indicating that the rating is closer to a B or B-minus. And if it equals the nearly $400 million worldwide gross of Martin Scorsese’s coke-broker drama, Aronofsky and Paramount will say hallelujah. (**MORE:** [Seven Other Movies Based on the Bible](http://time.com/31090/noahs-upon-us-7-other-movies-based-on-the-bible/)) Fundamentalist Christians proved their clout by sustaining _God’s Not Dead_. The no-budget movie that debates the existence of the Almighty (and guess who wins) opened last weekend to $9.2 million on 790 screens; this time it added 400 screens and held steady at $9.1 million. It should easily match the mid-$30 million grosses of the 2008 _Fireproof_ and the 2011 _Courageous_, proving that Bible Belters can be the most enthusiastic members of the indie-film community. When they see the movie light, they go. (**MORE:** [The Man Who Helps Hollywood Get Religion](http://business.time.com/2013/04/01/behind-the-hit-bible-miniseries-the-man-who-helps-hollywood-get-religion/)) Elsewhere in the top 10, _Divergent_, the _Twilight_/_Hunger Games_ wannabe, fell 51% from its winning total last weekend to secure second place. In 10 days the YA adventure has earned $95.3 million, or a bit more than the $94.9 million that the animated feature _Mr. Peabody & Sherman_, another recent winner, has amassed in 24 days. _Muppets Most Wanted_, in third place, fell just 33% from its opening weekend, to $11.4 million; but the Jim Henson brand can’t guarantee a substantial theatrical hit. Per theater, the weekend’s biggest tally behind _Noah_ was Wes Anderson’s _The Grand Budapest Hotel_, which earned $8.8 million in about a thousand venues. (**MORE:** [Corliss’s Rave for _The Grand Budapest Hotel_](http://time.com/17897/wes-andersons-the-grand-budapest-hotel-make-that-the-great/)) With these films appealing to kids, young women, Christians and art-house denizens, the male audience — once the most cherished and reliable of all Hollywood demographics — should have made a red-meat item like Schwarzenegger’s _Sabotage_ a smash. But the R-rated killer thriller, with Ahnold as the boss of a rogue DEA team, could summon only $5.3 million. By almost any standard, that is the puniest of the muscle man’s career, dating back to the original _Conan the Barbarian_ in 1982. (**MORE:** [Corliss Reviews _Sabotage_](http://www.airingnews.com/articles/947658/review-sabotage-sends-schwarzenegger-back-to-brutal-basics/)) By comparison, the $6.3 million opening for last year’s _The Last Stand_, Schwarzenegger’s return to starring roles after two terms as California’s governor, seems almost lofty. That film eventually earned $12.1 million domestic and $36.3 million in foreign markets, where customers still have some nostalgic love for the awesome Austrian, now 66\. With help from abroad, maybe _Sabotage_, budgeted at a thrifty $35 million, will claw its way to break-even. But in North America, when Arnold says, “I’ll be back,” moviegoers say, “Don’t bother.” Here are the Sunday estimates of this weekend’s top-grossing pictures in North American theaters, as reported by [Box Office Mojo](http://www.boxofficemojo.com/): 1\. _Noah_, $44 million, first weekend 2\. _Divergent_, $26.5 million; $95.3 million, second week 3\. _Muppets Most Wanted_, $11.4 million; $33.2 million, second week 4\. _Mr. Peabody & Sherman_, $9.5 million; $94.9 million, fourth week 5\. _God’s Not Dead_, $9.1 million; $22 million, second week 6\. _The Grand Budapest Hotel_, $8.8 million; $24.5 million, fourth week 7\. _Sabotage_, $5.3 million, first weekend 8\. _Need for Speed_, $4.3 million; $37.8 million, third week 9\. _300: Rise of an Empire_, $4.3 million; $101.1 million, fourth week 10\. _Non-Stop_, $4.1 million; $85.2 million, fifth week ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/42934/noah-box-office/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/42934/noah-box-office/"},"headline":"Audiences Say Yes to Noah, 'Hasta la Vista, Baby' to Arnold","datePublished":"2014-03-30T18:50:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T07:02:21.403Z","description":"The biblical drama directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Russell Crowe rises above a flood of controversy to earn a $44 million opening, while Arnold Schwarzenegger's new movie, Sabotage, sinks at $5.3 million","url":"https://time.com/42934/noah-box-office/","keywords":["Arnold Schwarzenegger","Noah","Russell Crowe"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt96ddb9595aa50bb4/6986880ce8524b5663602197/film-review-noah_yang1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Richard Corliss","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt96ddb9595aa50bb4/6986880ce8524b5663602197/film-review-noah_yang1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Noah","caption":"Noah","creditText":"Niko Tavernise—Paramount Pictures/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/42934/noah-box-office/","name":"Audiences Say Yes to Noah, 'Hasta la Vista, Baby' to Arnold"}}]}] ```