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'Unplanned' Smashes Canadian Box-Office Expectations On Opening Weekend: 'No. 2 Highest Per-Screen Average In All Of North America'"We're not sure exactly how many Canadians consider themselves pro-life ... but we're confident the number is larger than it was a week ago. This is a film with the power to change hearts and minds." -Chuck Konzelman (Toronto) — [LifeSiteNews.com] The controversial pro-life movie Unplanned smashed box-office expectations with a "phenomenally strong" opening weekend in more than 50 Canadian theatres. (Image: Faceboook-Unplanned Movie/via LifeSiteNews) The film brought in $352,510 CDN at 49 theatres that reported revenues, according to B.J. McKelvie, pastor and president of the Fredericton-based Cinedicom, Unplanned's Canadian distributor. "It shocked me ... That's a phenomenally strong opening for 49 reported theatres," McKelvie told LifeSiteNews. "The per-average theatre number is the second highest in North America" for that weekend, he added. Unplanned dramatizes Abby Johnson's conversion from a director of a Planned Parenthood abortion facility to full-time pro-life advocate and founder of And Then There Were None, a nonprofit proactive ministry dedicated to helping people leave the abortion industry. The movie was written, produced, and directed by Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman, who were also taken aback by its Canadian debut. "We expected a solid opening, but the No. 2 highest per-screen average in all of North America is something we couldn't have predicted," Konzelman told LifeSiteNews in an email... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here Continue reading here.
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