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I just searched the TV Guide online listings to see if a movie I recently viewed and thought quite inspirational, Facing The Giants, would be showing again in the near future. "Facing The Giants" was nowhere to be found in the search results. Astonishingly, in the list of approximately 500 films that the search yielded, the first two films (neither of which, note, contain either "Facing" or "Giants" in their titles) are: "Sex And The City: The Movie," and "The Golden Compass" - two films that are the polar opposite in message and tone of "Facing The Giants"!!! I did...

"We didn't make this movie to make money. We want people to walk out of the theater and desire a closer walk with God." Three years ago, the folks at Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia, believed God wanted them to make a movie. Now, says a report in the Washington Post, the low budget film funded by church donations, Facing the Giants, is playing at more than 400 theaters around the country. According to the report, the movie -- whose female lead is a homemaker and male lead is an associate pastor, both with no acting experience-- has...

One of the most profound movies to hit the silver screen in recent years wrestles with profound issues of God, faithfulness, and success. The film comes not from Hollywood but Albany, Georgia. Facing the Giants opened in 441 theaters across America and in that limited release was the 12th highest grossing film in America. What caused hundreds of thousands of America to watch a film featuring actors no one has heard of from a town few outside the South have heard of? A Different Type of Christian Film With the notable exceptions of the Passion of the Christ and Jonah:...

CBN.com – RATED “PG” FOR USE OF JESUS? Michael Catt is the pastor of the 3,000 member Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia. He is also Producer and Director of the football movie, Facing the Giants. The movie was written, directed, produced, financed and cast by volunteers from his church. Only five professionals were paid for work on the movie. Facing the Giants is about a high school football coach who draws up a new game plan after running a losing team for six years. The coach dares to trust God to do the impossible, and through Him, he and...

It is no secret that most Americans believe Hollywood is out of touch with mainstream America. Some of the films they have produced over the years with their explicit lewd and violent scenes would make anyone's grandmother blush. Yet, for all the hype of these their prize films, box-office receipts have declined a consistent 7 percent over the last three years. Hollywood executives have seemed confounded to understand why Americans are no longer turning out for movies in the same force as they used to. Until last week, when Walt Disney Company's new president of production, Oren Aviv, announced, in...

WASHINGTON -- A Christian-themed movie about a football coach's faith in God is finding an audience in Congress -- not so much for its inspirational message, but for the PG rating it received. House Majority Whip Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and other lawmakers are demanding explanations after hearing complaints that the movie "Facing the Giants" was rated PG instead of G due to religious content. The Motion Picture Association of America claims the controversy arose from a miscommunication with the filmmakers. It says religion was not the reason for the rating. "This incident raises the disquieting possibility that the MPAA considers...

A low-budget, inspirational football movie made by Baptist pastors in Georgia has triggered a flood of attacks by Christian groups that accuse Hollywood's main trade association of penalizing the film by giving it a PG rating. In the last week alone, the Motion Picture Assn. of America, which oversees the rating board, has been swamped with more than 15,000 e-mails arguing that "Facing the Giants" deserves a more family-friendly G rating. The complaints — the number of which may be 10 times the previous record for reaction to a ratings decision — say the movie is being unfairly targeted for...