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Entertainment Angel Studios new movie 'His Only Son' makes crowd funding History
from His Grace Magazine
by His Grace
ThisBiblical drama is one of the emotional parts of scripture in the Bible; it's where God comes to Abraham and asks him to sacrifice his only son to Him, and it has made funding history.
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"His Only Son" is the first theatrical movie to crowd fund for marketing funds so it could pay for the distribution and the advertising costs of the movie. The movie has been said to be "Biblically accurate." The movie was released on March 31st in theaters by Angel Studios, the streaming platform behind the most successful Christian crowd funded shows, The Chosen. Thousands of funders very quickly took advantage of an opportunity from Angel's crowd funding investment for the movie, "His Only Son" to pay "P&A," this in the entertainment industry is known as "Prints & Advertising."
Neal Harmon, the made up of Angel investors from every show, have rated this film with one of the highest scores we have
CEO and co-founder of Angel Studio said, "Crowdfunding for "His Only Son" reached capacity in 100 hours; we are responding to the demand from the audience by at least tripling the theater count nationwide and throwing our most valuable marketing resources behind the film. The Angel Guild, ever received in our system."
The movie story follows how the Lord God tests Abraham, as He tells him to go the mountain of Moriah and take his son who was promised by God, with him, where he is to sacrifice him there on the mountain, as it says in Genesis Chapters 12-22 in the Old Testament of the Bible. The scripture tells us that God had told Abraham that he would be the father of nations, then He continued to test Abraham after giving him his son Isaac. Here is a description of the movie that is on Angel Studio's website. It says, "This feature film illustrates that striking account, following Abraham, his son, and their two servants as they journey for three days to the place of the offering. Along the way, the men encounter dangers and trials as Abraham silently relives memories spanning the decades he and his wife, Sarah, longed for the son God had promised...the son he must now lay upon the altar."
Edaan Moskowitz who plays Isaac, follows his father Abraham who is played by Nicholas
Mouawad as they journeyed to the mountain of Moriah.
The studio investors who watched the motion picture on screen have described the movie as "The Chosen meets The Passion."
The movie's director, David Helling, is a U. S. Marine Corps veteran; he said it took him five years to make "His Only Son."
While he was serving his country in Iraq, he started reading the Bible. His strong faith has led him to make it his life's journey to bring Bible stories to theatres.
"His Only Son" stars Lebanese movie and TV actor Nicholas Mouawad as Abraham. Sara Seyed, Jasmine in the Netflix original series Young Wallander, portrays Abraham's wife, Sarah.
Angel Studio is a family friendly, movie making strength who is behind the national distribution of "His Only Son." They have produced many successful shows which include: The Chosen, Dry Bar Comedy, and The Wingfeather Saga.
The Chosen is the first ever TV series, which is about the life of Jesus Christ. This was the first project for Angel Studio and it has brought hundreds of millions of people viewing it from around the world.
Christians who love movies are screaming for more movies on the Bible.
In January, when the creators of The Chosen decided to premier the last two episodes of season three in theaters, people bought tickets so fast that it actually crashed the ticket website.
"His Only Son" also follows the very successful faith movie of Jesus Revolution. The movie potrays the true story of the Jesus Movement which took place in the 1970s. It showed how Pastor Chuck Smith welcomed hippies into his church as they were searching for the truth.
The movie was from Greg Laurie's book, Jesus Revolution, which shows "the true story of the national spiritual awakening in the early 1970s and it's origins within a community of teenage hippies in Southern California."
After Greg Laurie was saved, he later started the Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, California, and it is one of the largest churches in the country. The church has now sponsored its local SoCal Harvest event for the past three decades as it makes it one of the longest running evangelistic events in the country, as millions of people have attended the event.
Jesus Revolution stars Kelsey Grammer and Jonathan Roumie. Jonathan plays Jesus in the series Chosen.
Movie maker Jon Erwin of I Can Only Imagine, October Baby, I Still Believe, Mom's Night Out and American Underdog also directed Jesus Revolution
As of March 14th, the movie has made more than $39 million dollars at the box office.