The opening weekend of His Only Son took the box office’s No. 3 spot.
Moviegoers continued to support the newly released biblical film, which depicts the account of when God asks Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac. Last month, His Only Son made history when it became the first crowdfunded film.
BIBLICAL FILM HIS ONLY SON TAKES STAND FOR ‘HIGHER LEVEL OF ARTISTRY’ IN FIRST CROWDFUNDED THEATRICAL RELEASE
His Only Son grossed $5.5 million while showing in less than 2,000 theaters across the country. The film trailed Paramount Pictures’s Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, which grossed $38.5 million in its first weekend, and Lionsgate’s John Wick: Chapter 4, which has grossed nearly $123 million in two weekends.
Film review site Rotten Tomatoes featured a critics’ score of 80% with comments that suggested His Only Son is “not material for an epic,” while others called the film “mesmerizing.” Audience members, however, gave the film a 97% score.
“I didn’t set out to do Christian films,” His Only Son director David Helling said. “I set out to do biblical films because they’re for the sake of the Gospel — not the typical Hallmark with a Jesus tinge over it.”
His Only Son is being distributed by Angel Studios, the same platform behind The Chosen.
"We know [people] are eager for the kind of stories Angel has to offer, so we've worked hard to reach families and let them know they have a home at Angel,” Angel Studios CEO and co-founder Neal Harmon said. “The audience is finding that home, and they're showing up to support both our projects and projects from friends like [Jesus Revolution director] Jon Erwin that also amplify light. It's a thrilling time to be in this space.”
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Jesus Revolution, which features Frasier star Kelsey Grammer in the role of Southern California pastor Chuck Smith, who invites hippies into his church, beginning the real-life Christian movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, has surpassed original earning expectations by grossing more than $50.8 million domestically.
It remains in the box office’s top 10 after six weeks of showing on the big screen.