An annual
study of the major movies released theatrically in the United States
continues to show that movies with very strong Christian worldviews do
much better at the box office than movies with non-Christian worldviews.
The Christian
Film & Television Commission ministry’s Annual Report to Hollywood,
compiled by Chairman Ted Baehr and his staff of expert reviewers, shows
that movies released in 2001 with a very strong Christian worldview
earned nearly twice as much money (86 percent more) on average,
$43,593,518, than movies with a very strong non-Christian or
anti-Christian worldview (including humanist, pagan, Romantic,
Communist, feminist, occult, homosexual, and anti-patriotic worldviews),
which averaged only $23,422,536 when combined together.
Taken
separately, movies released in 2001 with a very strong Christian
worldview earned:
• About 18
percent more money on average than movies with a very strong secular
humanist worldview, which earned only $37 million on average in 2001;
• About 60
percent more money on average than movies with a very strong occult
worldview, which earned only $27.3 million on average in 2001;
• About 80
percent more money on average than movies with a very strong pagan
worldview, which earned only $24.2 million on average in 2001;
• About 209
percent more money on average than movies with a very strong Romantic
worldview, in a theological and philosophical sense, which earned only
$14.1 million on average in 2001;
• About 570
percent more money on average than movies with a very strong Communist
worldview, which earned only $6.5 million on average in 2001;
• About
8,407 percent more money on average than movies with a very strong
homosexual worldview, which earned only $0.5 million on average in
2001;
• About
9,004 percent more money on average than movies with a very strong
feminist worldview, which earned only $0.48 million on average in
2001.
• About
129,000 percent more money on average than movies with a very strong
anti-patriotic worldview, which earned only $33,842 on average in
2001.
These numbers
are similar to the Christian Film & Television Commission box office
figures in 2000, when movies with a very strong Christian worldview
averaged $42,882,055 at the box office, while movies with a very strong
non-Christian worldview averaged only between $17,565 and $23,620,686.
