# The  Resurrection of Gavin Stone movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 14, 2017, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-resurrection-of-gavin-stone-movie/777125 "2017-01-14T17:25:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-resurrection-of-gavin-stone-movie/777125/21 "2017-01-20T00:17:00Z")
I’d be more worried about it being WWE produced than if it’s a Christian movie. Most of their movies are pretty bad. I do find the reformed biker played by Shawn Michaels to be an interesting idea, though, fits pretty well in with his own life. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-resurrection-of-gavin-stone-movie/777125/22 "2017-01-20T00:21:27Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > A movie can even have it’s core theme be Christian, such as City of Angels, the Prophecy, or The Rapture, and not be a “Christian” movie. For example, you can watch a vampire movie, knowing full well that vampires don’t exist, but _in the world of the movie_ you can accept that they do, and enjoy the movie. Same with the angels in IAWL. You don’t have to believe in angels to empathize with Seth in City of Angels\*, and the sacrifice he made for love. That story can resonate with anyone who did that. In fact it’s\*\* better\*\* if you don’t believe in angels, since this one misrepresents them as dead people too. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-resurrection-of-gavin-stone-movie/777125/23 "2017-01-23T14:16:55Z")
So, weekend estimates have it at 18th place with $1,356,900, with an average of $1,590 per screen. Guessing an average of $8 per ticket and 8 screening per day for 3 days, that is an average of around 8 attendees for each screening. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-resurrection-of-gavin-stone-movie/777125/24 "2017-01-23T15:13:12Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > So, weekend estimates have it at 18th place with $1,356,900, with an average of $1,590 per screen. In fairness, it was apparently made on a budget of $2M. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-resurrection-of-gavin-stone-movie/777125/25 "2017-01-23T16:09:16Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > In fairness, it was apparently made on a budget of $2M. Still [terrible numbers](http://www.boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?id=christian.htm&sort=opengross&order=DESC&p=.htm). Let’s say it has similar performance to the next movie up on the list (_Hillsong–Let Hope Rise_) which had almost the same opening weekend (on a handful fewer screens.) _Hillsong_ ended up with around 2.34 million total. The theater takes somewhere in the realm of half of that, so it would still end up as a money loser in the theater (though with that minuscule a budget, easy to make up for on home media sales.) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-resurrection-of-gavin-stone-movie/777125/26 "2017-01-23T17:27:48Z")
On Rotten Tomatoes [https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the\_resurrection\_of\_gavin\_stone](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_resurrection_of_gavin_stone) it got a 42% “splat” score, and 94% of the audience liked it…but as one reviewer said > [@](#): > > The end result merits a paraphrase of the memorable appraisal by Miss Jean Brodie: For those who like that sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they probably will like. . ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-resurrection-of-gavin-stone-movie/777125/27 "2017-01-23T17:39:07Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > So, weekend estimates have it at 18th place with $1,356,900, with an average of $1,590 per screen. Guessing an average of $8 per ticket and 8 screening per day for 3 days, that is an average of around 8 attendees for each screening. I’d say the avg. price is higher and the number of screenings is far lower. But still in the mid-teens. This an typical average for that range in the rankings. The surprising thing is how low it is. And likely to rank lower once the official numbers are in. (There’s a lot of films that don’t get estimates on Sunday but pop into the list somewhere at 10 or lower. These push others further down once the weekend actuals come in.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-resurrection-of-gavin-stone-movie/777125.md?page=1)