Its fantastic to see that our Church members can make movies that become popular - good, clean wholesome movies. I hope 17 Miracles can somehow get to Australia, though no doubt eventually it can be purchased on DVD. I hope there will be more such wholesome movies with a religious theme. We are so blessed to have such talented people among our members that they can independantly make these movies. soldier on Saints and bring out more. I wanna see it.
Utah isn’t the only state with recent access to movies the LDS culture might appreciate. Excel Entertainment, a division of Deseret Book Company, is working quickly to keep up with the significant demand from multiple theater managers in cities across the nation who want to show the entertainment group’s most recently released movie.
17 Miracles, the new film from producer/director T.C. Christensen, who helped bring us Testaments, and Only a Stonecutter, released June 3. In its first week, the film played in 10 theaters along Utah’s Wasatch Front. In the second week, five additional theaters added the movie to their listings. The third week, three more theaters in Utah and two in Nevada started showing the movie. Now in its fourth week, 17 Miracles will be playing in a total of 23 locations, including newly added theaters in Arizona and Idaho. As of July 22, the film will be playing in Plano, Texas.
“In virtually all of these theater expansions, the theaters are callings us – which is the opposite of how it usually works,” said Dave Brown, business operations manager for Excel Entertainment. “There have been some theaters that have called us to request the movie because moviegoers were complaining that their local theater wasn’t playing 17 Miracles. People really want this film in their area.”
In Monday, June 20, more than two weeks after its release, 17 Miracles saw its highest box office gross yet, which, according to Brown, is practically unheard of.
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