Post-Hollywood Theater
Thanks for bringing this to our attention!
"And it was made by a single church in Memphis!! I had no clue from watching it that it was an indie." Reminds me of Fireproof (2008) Website iMDB -- I'd like to watch it again, but it was painfully powerful and impressively portrayed.
The ubiquity of videotech and Internet spells the end of Television as we knew it. I haven't had a TV, no tuner, no antenna, cable, or dish, in years. The creativity available online is astonishing and bountiful. In similar fashion, the dominance of theaters by Hollywood is being eroded by the independent producers. Movies aren't really dead. They're just morphing.
There's a significantly different spirit behind some of these new indies. In the iMDB trivia for Fireproof: "Kirk Cameron, a Christian evangelist, refuses to kiss any woman other than his wife. ...filmmakers had to dress Cameron's real-life wife... as the wife character... and shoot the kissing scene in shadow." Notably, it says, "distributor Samuel Goldwyn's highest grossing movie-to-date." And in this article about the making of Fireproof: "During my time on set in November 2007, I had the opportunity to get to know some of the cast and crew and experience their passion for making films that glorify God. Below, they tell their own stories. Their love for Christ was contagious on set."
I'm sure I read something very similar about the making of [insert latest big Hollywood movie].