It was funneled into the building of an 82-acre sports park for the Albany community with baseball and softball diamonds and soccer fields.Įmboldened by box office success, the two Associate Pastors began working on their third movie. What did the church do with the profit from Facing the Giants? No perks for these mini-moguls. Giants showed great playability and finished with $10.17M domestic. The picture rolled out on 441 screens in September of 2006 and delivered $1.34M on opening weekend for a $3,046 Per Theatre Average. When the record people saw the movie, they got parent company Sony involved, and, faster than you can say an “Our Father,” the movie had a distribution deal with IDP Films/Samuel Goldwyn.
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When the Kendrick brothers finished a rough cut, they approached a Christian record label called Provident Music Group in order to license some music for Facing the Giants. Still, there were no paid actors and the bulk of the crew was untrained volunteers from the Sherwood Baptist Church congregation.
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They raised the stakes with a budget of $100,000, mostly to pay for a 5-person professional crew from Orlando and the equipment necessary to shoot a “real” movie. The newly-minted, non-profit Sherwood Studios hoped to sell 10,000 copies of Flywheel on DVD, and to-date the movie has sold 200,000 units.īased on that relatively modest success, Alex and Stephen Kendrick proposed a movie about a Christian high school football coach called Facing the Giants. The movie proved to be very popular playing for six weeks and expanding to two other Carmike locations. “We thought it’d be neat to show the movie at the local movie theatre,” Alex Kendrick told me, and Carmike’s Wynnsong 16 Theatres in Albany agreed to a limited four-day engagement. The Kendricks intended to sell the DVD online with the proceeds being pushed back into the church’s ministries. The movie was made for $20,000 and shot on a Canon XL1 digital camera with a cast and crew made up entirely of church volunteers. Their first effort was the 2003 movie Flywheel about a car salesman with a crisis of conscience. Their church has about 3,000 members with about 1,500-1,700 attending services on the average Sunday, so Sherwood is not one of the so-called mega-churches, but Catt agreed to let them try their hand at filmmaking. They are in “the prayer business” full-time.Ībout seven years ago, the Kendrick brothers approached Sherwood Senior Pastor Michael Catt with the idea that making movies should be part of the church’s ministry. They are both Associate Pastors at Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia, 3 hours south of Atlanta. Although Alex and his brother, co-writer and producer Stephen Kendrick, “grew up making silly movies in the backyard with a video camera,” they have no formal training in the business.
This movie was bathed in prayer.” He is serious. “Before we shot a tough scene, we prayed. The answer, according to director Kendrick, is prayer. So how did a little church in Georgia score the 4th-best gross of the just-completed weekend? The cost of development, production, a director, actors and marketing make the craft of filmmaking prohibitive. and New York are filled with talented film professionals who spend countless hours and millions upon millions of dollars making movies.
They don’t make a lot of movies that lift our standards and morality.” That’s what director Alex Kendrick told me in a telephone interview on Monday after his new movie Fireproof (IDP Films/Samuel Goldwyn) opened with a downright shocking $6.5M opening weekend. “I’m not impressed with Hollywood in general.
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