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“The Chosen” series typically deconstructs traditionally masculine qualities as negatives within its male characters, so it was especially nice to see that balanced out here.
Joseph, a figure often overlooked in such stories, gets some welcome character development as well, being both admirably leader-like and protective and adorably clueless in equal measure. Showing Mary privately recite the song she sang to her cousin Elizabeth (recounted in Luke 1:46-50) to herself - as a comfort throughout the events of the story and as an example of the way she keeps precious things close to her heart - is a clever and effective move. It’s exactly the kind of thing that made “The Chosen” so popular. The short film does a heartfelt and satisfying job of retelling the beats we expect from the classic Nativity story, while also adding deeper character development for Mary and Joseph that helps them - and therefore their story - come more alive. While the string of beautifully shot Christmas carol music videos is certainly fun to sing along with if you’re in the company of friends willing to sing them aloud in an otherwise-empty theater - an admittedly very specific context that I will neither confirm nor deny I had the pleasure of participating in - the content itself is not far beyond what you could find by a good musical group on YouTube.īut “The Messengers” more than lives up to the hype around it. The highlight of “Christmas with The Chosen” is clearly the premiere of “The Messengers” short film. The excitement around “The Messengers” is largely around its status as a sort of sequel to the pilot that initially launched “The Chosen.” The show started out as a short film called “The Shepherd,” which told the story of Jesus' birth from the perspective of a crippled shepherd who was mistreated by society but got to see Jesus' birth along with the other shepherds told about Jesus by the angels. The last bit of the film is a new short episode of “The Chosen” titled “The Messengers,” which tells the story of the birth of Jesus from the perspective of his mother Mary. The majority of the film is a combination of music videos of classic Christmas carols by different Christian music artists, interlaced with interviews with those artists, mini sermons by Dallas Jenkins and conversations of “The Chosen” cast members about how awesome the show is - or the meaning and message of Christianity and the Christmas season.
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The movie is essentially split into two parts. This success is especially surprising given how unconventional “Christmas with The Chosen” actually is.
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This is despite the fact that “The Chosen” crew was committed to keeping with its original plan to release the special for free to fans on YouTube and on The Chosen app the following weekend, which it did on Dec. But “Christmas with The Chosen” was so successful they decided to extend the run through the Christmas season. Typically, films distributed by Fathom only get an extremely limited theatrical run. I don't care about things like this like I used to, but it's still fun to see what God is doing in the culture. Especially considering we did more in one night than Gavin Stone did its entire run. Truly.īut when we just found out Christmas With The Chosen, of all things a music and episode Special about Jesus, is #1 at the box office in the entire country, it felt a little like a God wink. I don't need box office success or accolades.
And for the first time in my life, I surrendered and got to a place where all I care about is pleasing God. It broke me.īut from a message from God through a friend, I realized it's not my job to feed the 5,000 it's only my job to provide the loaves and fish. My film The Resurrection of Gavin Stone had an opening weekend of $1.5m, way below hopes, not even in the top ten. In 2017, I experienced my biggest career failure.
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To put that in context, once “Christmas with The Chosen” tops $13.5 million at the box office, it will have passed almost every award-season Oscar contender so far, except “Dune,” “House of Gucci” and possibly “West Side Story.”ĭallas Jenkins, director and showrunner of both “Christmas with The Chosen” and “The Chosen” TV series, was tearful and grateful at the news. This made it the highest-grossing opening weekend of all time for a movie released by Fathom Events, an AMC-owned distributor, and the fourth-highest grossing movie of the weekend. (REVIEW) “Christmas with The Chosen,” the theatrically released Christmas special tie-in to the hit TV series about the life of Jesus, has made headlines by breaking box office records its opening weekend.įans of “The Chosen” TV series shocked the entertainment industry by rocketing the tiny Christmas special - which is essentially a Christmas carol show with a short Christmas-themed episode of “The Chosen” attached to it - to over $10 million at the box office its opening week.
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