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Box Office: 'Noah' Winning Over Faith-Based and Mainstream Moviegoers
Hollywood Reporter ^ | Saturday, March 28, 2014 | Pamela McClintock

Posted on 03/29/2014 2:59:16 PM PDT by Star Traveler

Darren Aronofsky's controversial biblical epic Noah is winning over faith-based and mainstream moviegoers alike at the North American box office, ending weeks of speculation as to whether the filmmaker's darker take on the story of Noah and his Ark would be a turnoff for more devout moviegoers.

The Paramount and New Regency movie easily topped the Friday chart with $15.2 million from 3,567 theaters for a projected $41 million to $43 million weekend, a strong start. Overseas, Noah is likewise prospering, grossing an early $28.3 million from only 21 markets (many of those opened Friday) and coming in ahead of Gravity. The film's global total through Friday was $43.5 million.

In North America, Noah received a C CinemaScore, indicating that it is still polarizing. But Christian moviegoers are turning out in force. According to those with access to grosses, half of the theaters doing the most business on Friday were in cities traditionally considered faith-based markets, including Salt Lake City, Reno, Tulsa, Mobile, Ala., Houston, San Antonio, and Orlando. Hispanics, many of whom are Catholic, are helping to fuel the film. (Hispanics are the most avid moviegoers in the U.S.)

(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bible; movies; noah; noahthemovie
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To: Graybeard58

NO Bible-believing Christian would be fooled by Hollywood. If this was a poll, it must have been taken by MSNBC or the White House!


41 posted on 03/29/2014 4:16:08 PM PDT by lu shissler (ecause)
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To: Hot Tabasco; Star Traveler
If you don't like the movie, fine, but don't don't preach to me and tell me what I should or should not watch..........

Where did it all go wrong?

I'd say at the point you wrote "don't...tell me what I...should not watch."

Star Traveler had not told anyone not to watch. Basically he informed about the movie's bad reviews and it's lack of biblical fidelity.

There's the barest possibility that could be called "preaching"...

42 posted on 03/29/2014 4:16:08 PM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: Star Traveler

The Cinemascore rating of the “movie” is going to kill it’s potential box office. Word of mouth is pretty bad for this flick, and with Captain America opening next week I suspect Noah drops some 65%+ at the box office next weekend.


43 posted on 03/29/2014 4:26:33 PM PDT by gallandro1
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To: xzins
What a bunch of LIARS at the Hollywood Reporter if they think Christians are actually approving of this movie. There are some Christians going to "check it out" so they can report on it to all the other Christians. BUT, now ... "the word is out" ... this is the MOST UNBIBLICAL presentation of a Biblical story EVER!

Ummmmmm, what? This is from your homeboy who didn't even watch the movie........LOL!


44 posted on 03/29/2014 4:29:50 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Under Reagan spring always arrived on time.....)
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To: gallandro1

This movie needs to GO INTO THE TOILET!

I’m more than overjoyed now - that the Christians are getting the message that this ATHEIST DIRECTOR has done everything he can to make an UNBIBLICAL movie, to fit his atheistic agenda ... and ... his “green agenda” (which is unbelievably in this movie, too)!


45 posted on 03/29/2014 4:31:32 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Star Traveler

Darker tale of Noah? As if this has anything to do with the Biblical tale


46 posted on 03/29/2014 4:37:40 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Hot Tabasco

I’m not sure why listening to trusted reviewers is a bad thing. As I recall, that’s why Siskel and Ebert used give thumbs up and down.

My own take on it, after reading about 5 or 6 reviews now, is that I’ll wait and borrow the DVD. It sounds like it should have been titled “The Valley of the Nephalim” and the guy’s name been Nahon and not been Noah. Then it could have been a fantasy scifi and folks could’ve talked about it being an allegorical knockoff...maybe... of a bible story.

I’d take you more seriously if you also launched against the authors of the article for “preaching at you and telling what you SHOULD go watch...”


47 posted on 03/29/2014 4:41:43 PM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Why would anyone want to see a movie where it is obviously intended as a slam on Christians? I wouldn’t watch it for free


48 posted on 03/29/2014 4:41:57 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Star Traveler

For any IDIOTS who are reading this far and haven’t yet understood what this movie is about ... here’s something from Randall Price (who had dealt with Noah’s Ark before in his archeological work, on a professional basis) ...


The pre-release advertising promoting the movie Noah made a point of stating that while the director took artistic license in the production it was still faithful to the biblical story. Early theater previews were carefully edited to appeal to people of faith, but this is the least biblical “biblical film” of all time!

However, to be charitable, the bare outline of the Flood story is present, but after that artistic license has taken the film so far afield of anything resembling the Bible that it is offensive to people of faith. To say that the biblical story was watered down (pardon the pun) is much too mild.

Those who know the Bible were aware of how little the script followed Scripture. Those who didn’t know the Bible still didn’t know it when the final credits appeared. It is to the movie studio’s credit that they chose to even make a film with a biblical theme, but the torturous fiction that was the final cut partly written and directed by an atheist is a discredit to both the studio and the actors and is, in result, worse than having not made it at all. Remember the old adage of making a bottle of poison look nicer by removing the ugly skull and crossbones label and replacing it with one that read “essence of peppermint?” The bottle now looks pretty, but is even more deadly because of its deceptive label.

To a generation that already rejects the Genesis account as pure fiction, mixing a little Bible with a film of impure fiction is even worse – and certainly more dangerous to faith. For those who have not seen the movie and may think my judgments too harsh, please consider the following.


More at the link ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3138756/posts


49 posted on 03/29/2014 4:43:05 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Hot Tabasco

So what if he hasn’t seen it? What does that matter?


50 posted on 03/29/2014 4:45:38 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Star Traveler

The Noah Movie: Our Detailed Review [Christian Review]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3138815/posts

Noah director and writer Darren Aronofsky told The New Yorker magazine that his movie is “the least biblical film ever made.”

“Darren Aronofsky Gets Biblical,” The New Yorker, March 10, 2014, http://www.newyorker.com/services/presscenter/2014/03/17/140317pr_press_release.


51 posted on 03/29/2014 5:04:54 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Jonty30

“it’ll be out of theatres in a few weeks at most”

15 million is dismal. It won’t last two weeks at that rate.


52 posted on 03/29/2014 5:25:19 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Star Traveler

A collection of FREEPER threads on the movie - Noah ...

Religious tide turns against ‘Noah’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3138393/posts

Noah: a classic blunder
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3138403/posts

Nine problems with the movie “Noah”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3138569/posts

Don’t Get Punked by Paramount’s Pagan Noah Film
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3138604/posts

Noah – The Emperor’s New Movie (The Utter Embarrassing Mess of ‘Noah’)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3138663/posts

‘Noah’ Review: Brilliantly Sinister Anti-Christian Filmmaking
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3138716/posts

Noah, The Film: All Washed Up
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3138756/posts

Box Office: ‘Noah’ Winning Over Faith-Based and Mainstream Moviegoers
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3138788/posts

No meat at ‘Noah’ party
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3138805/posts

The Noah Movie: Our Detailed Review [Christian Review]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3138815/posts

The Noah Movie: Deconstructing Noah’s Ark; Godawful Storytelling
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3138821/posts


53 posted on 03/29/2014 5:42:09 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Star Traveler

That was my first thought. What are the odds a Hollywood reporter would actually *know* *any* Faith-Based and Mainstream Moviegoers?


54 posted on 03/29/2014 5:50:38 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (WoT News: Rantburg.com)
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To: 353FMG

Same here.


55 posted on 03/29/2014 6:09:09 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is)
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To: Star Traveler

Saw a bunch of people coming out of the theater after Noah. many were saying it was a bad movie, don’t waste your money.


56 posted on 03/29/2014 6:14:58 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Dalberg-Acton

Here is where I get my bibles.
http://www.bibles-direct.co.uk/

These are R L Allen bibles, the best quality in the world.

Don’t get their song books (Hymns old and new)as they are for a fringe Christian group.


57 posted on 03/29/2014 6:15:12 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: dennisw

***Aronofsky’s decision to include big special effects-laden battle scenes is curious at best and disastrous at worst.***

Any worse than SODOM AND GOMORRAH?(1962).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056504/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1


58 posted on 03/29/2014 6:19:04 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: Star Traveler

15 million...that’s nothing! Twilight made 70 million its opening weekend.


59 posted on 03/29/2014 6:30:44 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Never heard of it ... I wonder why ... :-) ...


60 posted on 03/29/2014 6:34:03 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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