" we often say that the fathers in this generation are misrepresenting God and children are growing up thinking that God is like their earthly father."ĭuring a reception after Sunday's announcement, Kendrick said not all the stories of the four fathers in "Courageous" will have happy endings because the purpose is to get male viewers to walk away from the theater asking themselves what kind of man they want to be. "God calls Himself our father and … a father is supposed to represent the Lord to his children," stated Kendrick. In their announcement, Sherwood Pictures noted that 4 of 10 marriages end in divorce and more than a third of all children live away from their biological fathers.
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"We believe God is calling us as a church family and through a movie to call men to rise up to spiritual leadership in their families," announced Stephen Kendrick, co-screenwriter of "Courageous," to about 1,300 people gathered at Sherwood Church in Albany, Ga. The four men will go through a tragedy together that will challenge them to fulfill the role of fathers as God intended it to be. "Courageous," the fourth film by movie-making church ministry Sherwood Pictures, will follow four police officers as they wrestle to make different decisions that will impact the lives of their families. – After much anticipation, the makers of runaway hits "Fireproof" and "Facing the Giants" announced Sunday night that their next film project will be about the need for godly fathers. “On Sunday, I think there will be some distribution execs around town who will be asking ‘What the hell is Fireproof?’ ” The studios did.Facebook Twitter Email Print Img No-img Menu Whatsapp Google Reddit Digg Stumbleupon Linkedin Comment 0ĪLBANY, Ga. “Just between you and me, keep your eye on the Fireproof per screen averages this weekend,” a source at Grace Hill Media, which markets to the religious community but wasn’t involved with this movie, tipped me. Faith-based “Action Squads” bought up blocks of tickets. (The evangelical actor claims he donated his pay from Fireproof to a camp for seriously ill kids he runs with his wife.) It had the year’s highest grossing opening weekend return of any film (except 3-D Hannah Montana) released on 1,000 screens or less. The reason why is that the pic used grassroots methods to directly reach churches on behalf of the PG film starring the grown-up star of TV’s Growing Pains, Kirk Cameron.
Samuel Goldwyn Films is the theatrical distributor, while Provident Films handled Fireproof‘s outreach and marketing to Christian audiences. It debuted to a $2.3M Friday and $2.6M Saturday for a $6.5M gross weekend though released into only 839 dates and costing just $500K.
The movie is the latest from Sherwood Pictures, a nonprofit ministry of Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia, that previously put out the popular Facing the Giants and the lesser-known Flywheel.
A big surprise at the box office this weekend was the 4th place opening of Provident/Samuel Goldwyn’s Fireproof, the small budget and limited release pic about a firefighter who recommits to his marriage and his faith.