come anticipate Kevin Sarbo as an evil atheist philosophy professor in the new film from Pure Flix Entertainment, GOD'S NOT DEAD

Took me a while to realize but one of my students was wearing this shirt today:
http://www.familychristian.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/300x/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/2/5/259218.jpg

And I, as a raging liberal agnostic soon-to-be-college-professor...helped him with some questions he had about HTML and CSS.

"sure, I can help you fix that line of code... IF YOU ADMIT THAT GOD IS DEAD!"

He'll just come back with his DVD copy of pi.

Why do you hate JAVA?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bux3vnJIYAEC_Js.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0OJqNp6aJU

What a banner year this is turning out to be.

Lotsa scare-quotes in that advert

Not to mention multiple record-scratch sound effects

I predict a sudden rash of conversions among 30-something female marketing executives with killer wardrobes, dream apartments and great friends as a result of this movie. Jesus will be proud.

plz tell me they got Trent Reznor to do the soundtrack for this

Hwyneth Gayden

hey, that's my thing

sorry, switching letters guy

Freestyle Releasing

My heart weeps for Stephen Tobolowsky.

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt3398066/

Not only is he co-starring in it, Corbin Burnsen is writing, directing, _and_ producing! Just like Orson Welles!

My heart weeps for Stephen Tobolowsky.

eh, I prefer to look at it as great fodder for one of his podcasts down the road. people joke about Samuel L Jackson, but Tobolowsky really is the actor that won't say "no"

Just like Orson Welles!

Ha!

Is Burnsen a crispie, or just an opportunist?

Here's the guy doing the music:

http://m.imdb.com/name/nm4209833/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H9A9zTorrw

Perusing the list of us domestic gross. Pretty good year for religious films!

21 Noah $101,200,044
24 Heaven is for Real $91,443,253
32 God's Not Dead $60,755,732
33 Son of God $59,700,064

...

but not so good for:

88 Magic in the Moonlight $7,189,545
91 The Wind Rises $5,209,580
93 Snowpiercer $4,428,209

There's a light at the end of the tunnel, Armond!

you're kind of comparing apples and oranges there - the bottom three were all limited releases that played in far fewer theaters

the wind rises played on 500 screens nationwide, magic in the moonlight under 1,000, snowpiercer at under 400

noah, son of god and heaven is for real all played at over 3,000 screens

also if you compare global gross

Noah - $359m
The Wind Rises - $118m
Heaven Is For Real - $100m
Snowpiercer - $86m
Son of God - $67m

and Magic In The Moonlight hasn't even opened in most woody-favoring countries

I'm comparing movies I thought were bigger with movies I thought were smaller (apart from Noah I mean).

Apples, oranges. What about the bananas?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ogyWXNsKt3I/SwTfnhLupOI/AAAAAAAABLw/sYdTGbyXPq4/s400/kirkbanana.jpg

so basically, yes, movies about biblical characters with wide openings did far better than foreign-oriented and upper east side-oriented movies in limited release

i bet snowpiercer could have done better if the weinsteins put any promotional weight behind it, but they hedged their bets

Also I was talking about domestic and I still am.

it's not like all these films were released with the same amount of accessibility and promotion and america just ran to the jesus shit

Pretty good year profits for the financial backers of religious films!

fixed

I didn't realize how many screens God's Not Dead had played on. I thought it maybe did some bible belt screens and then went to VOD.

don't get me wrong cheap jesus movies are potentially even more profitable than cheap "ack! i just filmed a monster on my camera!" found footage movies

it's not like all these films were released with the same amount of accessibility and promotion and america just ran to the jesus shit

I know, I was just surprised. Sheesh man

i'm just saying it's no surprise. the fact that they did better than art movies (and for better or worse, distributors releases snowpiercer and wind rises like art movies)...well, the fix was in before we even had a say

Snowpiercer is an action movie with Captain America in the lead. Everyone I know saw it, some more than once. I thought it was much bigger.

well now you know you have hip cool friends that saw a movie based on internet buzz while the distributors decided it wasn't worth pushing the film outside of urban markets

more evocative numbers

title US Box Office Number of screens released
Sex Tape $38,029,974 3,062
Deliver Us From Evil $30,577,122 3,049
Heaven is for Real $91,443,253 3,048
Million Dollar Arm $36,457,627 3,019

gah i swear i spaced those out more damn formatting

noah's relative standing is less impressive

Hercules (2014) $70,264,908 3,595
Noah $101,200,044 3,571
Blended $46,290,741 3,555
Edge of Tomorrow $99,992,247 3,505
300: Rise of An Empire $106,580,051 3,490

jeeeeeez that's a pretty good per-screen rate for Heaven is for Real

meanwhile

Snowpiercer /$4,446,463 /356
Fading Gigolo /$3,769,873 /356
Veronica Mars /$3,322,127 /347

Veronica Mars is sort of a religious movie tbh.

this suggests the weinsteins probably should have given the odd foreign-born action movie they bought starring someone from captain america 2 a chance

Son of God /$59,700,064 /3,271
Earth to Echo /$38,173,560 /3,230
The Expendables /$29,202,472 /3,221
Lucy /$115,079,315 /3,202

Veronica Mars is sort of a religious movie tbh.

The old gods?

Well, at least in terms of how it was marketed and received.

They had marshmallows for communion wafers at the door.

i wonder how many people funded the movie, got their lil doodads and still paid to see it opening week