While Fireproof undoubtedly won’t make as much money at the box office as Speed Racer lost, those who see this powerful story will find themselves moved in a way that Speed Racer-and most big budget movies today-can’t seem to pull off.
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They filmed at movie locations available at no cost.Īnd the men who produced, directed, and wrote the film are on the pastoral staff at the church. Fireproof was big budget for the church-it cost $500,000 to make. The average movie made in Albany, Ga., costs about $70,000. Since 2003, Sherwood Baptist Church has produced three full length motion pictures: Flywheel, which played in local theaters for eight weeks and later sold 40,000 DVDs Facing the Giants, the 2006 film that cost $100,000 to make and earned $10 million in domestic box office receipts, and has gone on to sell more than 1.5 million DVDs and their latest film, Fireproof, which opens in theaters on September 26.
These days, the average Hollywood produced movie costs more than $100 million to make. Some of those movies set new box office records (think The Dark Knight). Some hemorrhage money (think Speed Racer, if you can remember it. Cost to make-$160 million. Domestic box office receipts-$45 million. That’s a lot of millions lost).
Fireproof: A Powerful Film About a Crumbling Marriage September 2008