It's a Healthy Marriage of Faith and Filmmaking
Written by BellaTheMovie
Posted on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 01:31 PM.
An almost all-volunteer cast and crew, including a star who was an '80s teen heartthrob, and a plot about a firefighter who saves his marriage by turning to God â it hardly sounds like a recipe for box office success, let alone a best-selling book. But that's what the film "Fireproof" has spawned.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/movies/06fire.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
'Fireproof' Shows Christian Movies Sell
You can almost picture the Hollywood studio execs scratching their heads.
A film that was made for $500,000, relied more on word of mouth than television and print ads, and is headlined by an actor best known for a 1980s television show, opens at No. 4 in the country and rakes in $6.8 million in ticket sales.
"Where did this come from? We didn't see this on the radar," actor Kirk Cameron imagined the execs saying. "What is 'Fireproof?'"
After this week, few will be left wondering. The Christian-themed film, which stars Cameron as a firefighter whose marriage is on the rocks, is the latest aimed at the 80-million strong evangelical audience. And, like the instant popularity of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, it's a sign that the strength of the evangelical community has not waned.
"We just smiled," Cameron, the former "Growing Pains" star, told ABCNews.com, referring to himself and the filmmakers. "We knew that no one would expect it to do well."
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=5941016&page=1
