And to think, that every time they poll their best friends at the country club in Santa Monica, they can't find a single person who likes pro-Christian, pro-military, and pro-traditional entertainment!
The Holy Spirit moves in interesting ways...
The Hollywood phrase is: “Non-recurring phenomenon.” That way they don’t have to think about it. Today, the vast sums earned by “The Passion of the Christ” have been forgotten by Hollywood. “Sugar tits” is remembered...
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sherwood-pictures-courageous-248204
Box Office Shocker: How Moviemaking Georgia Church Behind ‘Courageous’ Outperforms Hollywood
Before the filmmakers for Sherwood Pictures shot the first frame of Courageous, they prayed. It’s right there in the press materials. They did the same thing with Sherwood’s previous theatrical releases, Facing the Giants in 2006 and Fireproof in 2008. None of these Christian-themed movies is up to Hollywood production standards, though by one metric — box office compared to budget — they’re some of the most profitable films in modern history.
While Iron Man 2 and Thor earned three times their production budgets, Giants was made for $100,000 and took in $10.2 million domestically, 102 times its budget. Fireproof cost $500,000 but earned $33.5 million, a multiple of 67 on its budget, and Courageous, made for $2 million, earned eight times that in its first 10 days. It bowed No. 4 at the box office with$9.1 million from 1,161 theaters.
It seems Sherwood — a company few in Hollywood have even heard of — has discovered the secret for making films on a shoestring that people will line up to see in theaters. Maybe it’s all that praying.
The History Chennel used to be my favorite channel, by far.
Then, after about a decade of pawn shops, ice truckers and ghost hunting, I stopped watching completely.
I assumed that ‘The Bible’ would be presented in an offensive manner, so I haven’t tuned in. Is it any good?
It's almost like they're a bunch of blowhard elitists...
It's almost like they're a bunch of blowhard liberal elitists...
Maybe it has something to do with the business still being run by people who grew up watching the old epics like The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur, The Greatest Story Ever Told, etc., and it still seems old-fashioned. In other words they are bad at their jobs.
>They missed the boat on “Passion of the Christ,” and now the Bible miniseries.<
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If Mel Gibson would only produce “Acts of the Apostles” starting with the Resurrection. That would be one heck of an adventure story.
Gee,I wonder why????????????????????????????????????
People are lookng for TRUTH. God has placed eternity in the hearts of man and he instinctively knows it will not be found apart from God.
Of course, that might make George W. Bush and out military look good, so they will never do it.
But there's a ton of money to be made
Hollywood will counter with a Quran Series ,if they can find enough fake blood
#1 nonscripted show (reality) is Duck Dynasty.
No swearing, no naked drunken partiers, no pregnant teens, no homosexual deviance in your face. Just Christian folk. AND THEY PRAY AT THE END OF EACH EPISODE! GASP!
Hollywood just cannot understand how this can possibly be popular.
Perhaps some people don’t want to watch perpetual-partying, foul mouthed, drunken homosexual sex all over the TV.
Well it’s also free and in your home, taping it, eating your own grits. Hollywood robbers can’t match that without changing the script perhaps replacing Jerusalem with Sodom and Gomorrah.
Yes, it is hard to imagine a program such as ‘navy Log’ appearing anywhere on television today.