"Kirk Cameron is the best actor in the world and so personal. You'd think they were meeting Brad Pitt or Daniel Day Lewis. The capper is that they get to meet Kirk Cameron himself. I didn't realize spousal abuse was family friendly. The funniest thing, after reading your review, was thinking back to the fact that Ma and Pa Duggar go on-and-on about how "family friendly" this film was and that it was the first film many of their children (from zero to 19) had been allowed to see. The Duggars christen it the "BEST FILM EVAH!" and rank it up their with their other favorites: Sound of Music, a Veggie Tales Bio Pic (kidding), and some other films I've never heard of. The Duggars go to the Fundy Christian Film Festival, all-the-while bashing the media (from which they make their living), and see Fireproof. You need to check out the latest 17 Kids and Counting episode. Reply DeleteĬomments aren't working on the blogger's page. It's sort of like what the Blair Witch Project did for indie horror (substitute the internet for the church), or what Hoodwinked did for animation (substitute brilliant timing and marketing for the church).Īs someone who has worked on a number of terrible movies (and only a few good ones), I can say that it's just as hard to make a bad one as a good one, and more power to `em. The ulterior motive to me seemed to be to use Fireproof as a really cheap inroad to mainstream theater distribution, and then crow about how Hollywood was out of touch based on its success.
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I wasn't knocking their right to make the film, or even participate in it. My understanding was that no one got paid here, including Kirk. Sometimes there's even an understanding that if the film makes it mainstream, pay might be involved. It's true that a lot of indie films don't pay the actors up front, and there are a lot of end-runs folks have done to get around the SAG for that. And? Last I also checked, most Hollywood movies are too. As a nice bonus for them, they ended up making a pile of money off it. They just wanted to make the kind of movie they wanted to see. I can't see any ulterior (not "alterior") motives going on here. They were just excited to be making a movie.
#Fireproof the movie producers for free#
And if they were members of the sponsoring church, I'm sure they didn't care they were working for free either. For Fireproof, I suspect Cameron got whatever his rate his, probably not much more than a shade above SAG scale, and then most everyone else worked for free. On a 500K budget, you certainly aren't paying for top talent, and your crew is likely to consist of friends willing to comp you their time. I've probably had more non-paying jobs than paying jobs.
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Spajadigit, this is where I put on my ten-gallon movie-business-professional's hat and say, "Not so fast, hoss." To be perfectly factual, most low budget indie films are worked on by unpaid crews. More on his flailing attempts to be a Hollywood hotshot here, for your amusement.
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But while Matt's off on his company's website pleading with the public to help get his movies into theaters, along come the producers of Fireproof, who whip together their little movie with pocket change, score a distribution deal with Samuel Goldwyn that eventually gets it out on almost 900 screens, and then sit back while the money rolls in. Crouch has always fancied himself God's Producer, and has been very personally invested in being the Christian mogul who will bring Christian movies to the masses and reap huge box office rewards thereby. What amuses me about the success of Fireproof is that TBN's Matthew Crouch, producer of such big-budget (by indie standards) flops as Megiddo ($22M budget, $13M B.O.) and One Night with the King ($20M budget, $14M B.O.), is probably as green as a leprechaun's left ball with envy and would doubtless be sticking pins in doll effigies of Fireproof's producers if he could find a way to justify it in a Christian context. Well, fine, I think it's great if Christians want to make movies for themselves that reflect their, ahem, values. By following the "market directly to churches" approach of Passion of the Christ, they really banked. While we're all chuckling, get this: Fireproof was the most successful independent movie of 2008, and one of the most profitable if not the most profitable movie of the year, costing only half a million to produce and taking in $33 million at the box office.