Six weeks following the opening of Sherwood Films’ COURAGEOUS, the film continues to experience tremendous success at the box office.
COURAGEOUS premiered September 30th on 1,200 screens, garnering $9 million in revenue and one million viewers. It finished opening weekend as the #4 movie in the country; though, considering it opened against films showing on nearly three times as many screens, COURAGEOUS’ per-screen average of $7,752 almost doubled its closest competitors. Sherwood’s previous effort FIREPROOF earned nearly $7 million on opening weekend.
Even before the film’s completion, Propeller began engaging national ministry partners throughout the United States – setting up partnerships for grassroots promotion, holding private screenings and working with ministry and police leaders to develop teaching curricula relevant to the film’s central theme of men upholding their responsibilities as leaders to their families.
In addition, the film, based on the lives, trials and conquests of four small-town police officers and their role as fathers, has received critical praise from major entertainment press outlets including TIME and Box Office Mojo. Variety magazine responded to COURAGEOUS by saying, “Time and again, the pic effectively emphasizes how the deputies are reminded on a daily basis what eventually can happen to at-risk children who don’t have fathers involved in their lives. Little wonder, then, that they’re moved to ask God’s help to hone their own paternal skills.”
After six weeks in theaters, COURAGEOUS has grossed over $31-million in total box-office revenue.
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