Roadside Attractions’ A Great Awakening nabbed the no. 6 spot at the domestic box office with a solid $2.1 million on 1,289 screens. The Sight & Sound production in honor of America’s 250th anniversary ths year explores the friendship between firebrand preacher George Whitefield and Benjamin Franklin, and how Franklin’s resulting recognition of the role of faith changed history.
The film stars John Paul Sneed as Franklin, Jonathan Blair as Whitefield and is directed and co-written by Joshua Enck.
“We are very excited about Roadside’s first partnership with producers Sight & Sound” on A Great Awakening, said Roadside co-president Howard Cohen. “The film showed in our exit polls that it brought in both faith-based viewers and history buffs.” It also received an A+ Cinemascore, boding well for play in the weeks to come.
CinemaScore data showed the audience at 79% 35+ and 57% female. Some 66% were
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