She definitely used violence, but she didn’t use gore. Can you talk about why a Christian writer would do that?īRN: The thing missing in that question is how Flannery used those things. Q: You’re a devotee of Flannery O’Conner, who often depicted violent and otherwise objectionable material. How can they not make the sequel? But with DVC, if it’s half a hit, we will see a spate of knockoffs. But now they almost can’t NOT make another Narnia film, because now it’s probably going to pass $300 million in the United States alone. #Safelist automailer movieWhy? Because that is the kind of movie Hollywood wants to make anyway, and hit status will give them economic affirmation as well.ĭisney did not green light the second movie of the Narnia franchise until it was clear the movie was going to make a quarter of a billion dollars because it is not the kind of movie the creative elites in Hollywood want to make. If the "Jesus is a fraud and the Church is a corporate criminal movie" is a huge hit, we will see 10-12 clones of it before too long. #Safelist automailer codeBut if we just ignore The Da Vinci Code and let your kids go, then you are voting for that kind of movie to be made. If we take all of our kids and ourselves intentionally to Over the Hedge, and we let the industry know we are going to see this other movie on purpose as a way to register our vote, we can make a much more impressive statement that if we all just stay away from the theaters that weekend. We want everybody in the business to wake up Monday morning and see that this little silly movie won the weekend - or at least ate a chunk of the tally from DVC. There is a fun little animated family movie by Dreamworks called Over the Hedge. Which reminds me, with The Da Vinci Code, (scheduled for May 19, 2006) we want everybody to turn out to see another movie to skew the box office away from the blasphemy movie as a signal to the industry. If you are going to have an impact on this industry, you are going to have to be much more aware of how you are voting at the box office. So, going to a movie on opening weekend is like voting. There is a formula and they’re amazingly right most of the time. By Sunday morning in America, they can tell you pretty much the kind of money a movie will make in Brazil on its DVD sales. #Safelist automailer tvThey will then expand it to 1,000 in the next few weeks, which means now they have to support it with wider spray of ads - more TV and newspaper - so the whole promotional thing kicks in even bigger and becomes more of a cultural phenomenon.Īfter a movie’s opening weekend, they know how many weeks it is going to be in the theaters, they can predict the global box office. Let’s say a film opens on 500 screens and does really well opening weekend. They have also decided by Sunday morning of opening weekend about how how many copies of the DVD will be struck, and how much money they will spend to promote it. By Sunday morning industry watchers can pretty much tell you how many more prints of the film they are going to strike and distribute, and whether the theater run is going to be expanded to include more theaters, and how much money they will be spending on supporting media and p.r. Q: Why is it important for Christians to get their rear-ends to the theater on the opening weekend of a worthwhile film?īRN: Right now, opening weekend is the measuring stick for all of the future investment in a project by the industry.
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