Fireproof drops from #8 to #10

Fireproof dropped from #8 last weekend to #11 this weekend, dropping from $4,680 per theater to $3,640 per theater.   Fireproof is still successful, making $3.1 million this past weekend, taking it to a total gross of $16.9 million so far.  Still quite good for a $500,000 budgeted film. Interestingly, Fireproof still beat Religulous, the Bill Maher anti-religion screed, but Religulous took in more money per theater for the second week in a row. It remains to be seen if Fireproof has the long lasting success of Facing the Giants, or if it made most of its money in the opening weeks. Edit: in the time between I wrote this and published it, boxofficemojo updated their figures to put fireproof back in the top 10 at #10. Subscribe to the SuperCandid Podcast, the number 1 podcast for Christian movies Subscribe to the SuperCandid Blog Save This Page

Fireproof starts a fire in the box office!

WOW!  Fireproof  blew up this weekend!

Fireproof  grossed a total of $6,514,000 over the weekend!  That's 13 times its budget!  One weekend and it's twice as big a profit, percentage wise, as Star Wars: Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith!

Even more amazing, it averaged $7,764 per screen, which puts it in the neighborhood of Evan Almighty, which had a budget over 10,000% higher!  

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed , which was made a huge splash as the 12th highest grossing documentary of all time, averaged only a little more than $2,000 on its best weekend.  

Congrats to Sherwood Pictures, the Kendrick Bros. and whoever is making all the money off this film (probably MGM, the parent company of distributor Samuel Goldwyn).  Hopefully we'll see it next week!

(Box Office Mojo) 

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