Friday, October 13, 2006

Filmmakers Say God Was Their Co-Producer

"Facing the Giants" is doing well at the box-office, despite the critics and the skeptics that say a shoestring-budget (try $100,000!) movie can't make it. It has, and is, as seen in this Washington Post article. Registration may be required.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/09/AR2006100901131.html

To quote:
Now, "Facing the Giants," the low-budget feature film about faith and high school football they made with church donations and Bible-inspired moxie, is playing at more than 400 theaters around the country -- a gigantic release for any independent movie, let alone one created by near-novices.
The movie has made $2.7 million in 10 days, and ticket sales were good enough last weekend to place it 13th in the box office rankings, one notch below "Flyboys," a war movie with a $60 million budget and starring James Franco.
The "Giants" box office tally doesn't even include some of the nation's largest metropolitan markets, which distributors skipped over in recognition of the cultural divide in this country.
Congrats to them. It might come near me in the theatre, but I might have to wait until it comes out on DVD. So far, I am also liking "Friday Night Lights" on NBC/Global Tuesday nights, and I am not a big football fan.
Speaking of Christian-themed movies, "One Night with the King" opened in select theatres tonight. I hope that it also does well at the box-office.

2 comments:

Chris Meirose said...

Ken,
You asked on my blog how to access Mark Driscoll's sermon(s). The way I do it is to download them via iTunes. iTunes is a free software program that runs on both Mac and PC (I only have PC's). Once you have the software all you have to do is subscribe to the Mars Hill Church Podcast and choose to download the sermons.

If you only want a single sermon, you can access them via the Mars Hill Church web site. The sermon is titled "Glorifying God" http://media.marshillchurch.org/. I promise this will not be a wasted hour of your life. Mark Driscoll is leading the largest Evangelical church in one of the least Christian cities in the country, and he regularly interact with how to meet our culture with Christ. Mark is a very gifted communicator, is enormously funny, while bringing hard Biblical Truths to the table. He is a bit edgy for those not familiar with him. The videos of Mark Driscoll are VERT large. Many/most exceed 250MB, which means you MUST have high speed internet, or spend an entire day downloading a single message. I burn his videos to CD's, and can only fit 2 per disk on most sermons.

Big Chris
Because I said so blog

Ken DV said...

DVD of "Facing the Giants" released Feb 13=07.