The new faith-based movie Jesus Revolution opened massive this previous weekend, ending at quantity 3 on the field workplace. 

It introduced in an estimated $15.5 million. This was greater than double the unique estimate of between $6 million – $7 million. 

As CBN News reported, the movie tells the true story behind the Jesus Movement of the Nineteen Seventies, together with how Pastor Chuck Smith welcomed hippies on the lookout for fact at his church. It gave start to one of many best religious awakenings in American historical past. 

Despite combined crucial critiques, the movie has a exceptional 99% viewers score on the evaluation aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes (as in comparison with the 53% critics’ rating). Additionally, Jesus Revolution has earned a uncommon A+ CinemaScore from opening day audiences, in line with Collider.com.

The film is predicated on Pastor Greg Laurie’s guide, Jesus Revolution, which outlines “the true story of the national spiritual awakening in the early 1970s and its origins within a community of teenage hippies in Southern California.”

After being saved, Laurie would later begin Harvest Christian Fellowship, in Riverside, California, which is now one of many largest church buildings within the nation. The church has sponsored its native SoCal Harvest occasion for 3 many years, making it one of many longest-running evangelistic events within the nation, attended by hundreds of thousands of individuals.

The movie’s solid contains Kelsey Grammer who portrays Chuck Smith. Grammer, 67, is a Christian. He’s well-known for the character of Frasier Crane whom he performed for 20 years within the tv sequence Frasier and Cheers.

Jesus Revolution is a Kingdom Story movie in collaboration with Lionsgate. Filmmaker Jon Erwin of I Can Only Imagine and American Underdog directed the movie. 

Other members of the solid embrace The Chosen’s Jonathan Roumie, Joel Courtney, Anna Grace Barlow, and Kimberly Williams-Paisley.

Watch Jesus Revolution’s trailer under.

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