New Three-Year Study Shows: Moviegoers Overseas Favor Clean Movies with Strong Christian, Moral and Redemptive Content

"Moviegoers clearly prefer clean movies...They want good to triumph over evil and justice to prevail. They want to be inspired."

(Los Angeles, CA)—Family advocate and Christian media scholar Dr. Ted Baehr, publisher of Movieguide®: The Family Guide to Movies and Entertainment, announced recently that a new three-year study of the Top 25 movies released in 2006-2008 earning the most money overseas shows that international moviegoers prefer movies with strong or very strong Christian, moral and/or redemptive content and values.

"This study is significant because it matches our annual study of the Top 25 Movies at the Box Office in America and Canada and the top home video sales annually," Dr. Baehr asserted, "and because Hollywood now makes more money overseas than it does in the United States."

The Movieguide® study found that 20 of the Top 25 Movies Overseas in 2006-2008, or 80%, contained strong or very strong Christian, moral, redemptive, and even Biblical content, earning $8.39 billion out of $10.59 billion total, or 79.2% of the money among the Top 25.

"That’s an average of $419.5 million per movie!" Dr. Baehr exclaimed.

For just a couple of the best examples, Dr. Baehr cited SPIDER-MAN 3 and INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL, both of which actually made it into the Top 10 Movies Overseas in 2006-2008....(more)

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A Reminder: "Call 2 Fall" Day of Prayer and Declaration of Dependence on God is Coming this Sunday, July 5th

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