{"id":274854,"date":"2025-10-03T15:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/274854\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T15:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:17:13","slug":"trailer-for-the-film-a-great-awakening-about-benjamin-franklin-and-reverend-george-whitefield-geektyrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/274854\/","title":{"rendered":"Trailer for the Film A GREAT AWAKENING About Benjamin Franklin and Reverend George Whitefield \u2014 GeekTyrant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The studio Roadside Attractions has acquired the rights to Sight &amp; Sound\u2019s second movie, <strong>A Great Awakening<\/strong>, and they\u2019ve set a theatrical release for April 3, 2026, Easter weekend. The film\u2019s release is also timed to the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The news comes in the wake of the faith-based entertainment company\u2019s theatrical release of Noah, which opened to $1.5M at the Sept. 18-20 box office, landing in the top 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">A Great Awakening follows the unlikely friendship between the Reverend George Whitefield and Benjamin Franklin. \u201cWith the colonies on the brink of collapse, the Reverend George Whitefield ignites the first Great Awakening, uniting an entire generation with his thundering and faithful sermons and proclamations of liberty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cIn a miraculous turn of events, one of Whitefield\u2019s closest friends and greatest promoters becomes none other than Benjamin Franklin. With the nation\u2019s freedom hanging in the balance, the founders discover true liberty cannot only be written into law \u2013 it must be awakened in the hearts of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Joshua Enck, President of Sight &amp; Sound and director of A Great Awakening, said of the film, \u201cOur mission is to bring powerful stories of redemption to life on stage and screen, and this film highlights a profound event in our nation\u2019s history that united a generation with the belief that faith and liberty are undoubtably intertwined. Partnering with Roadside Attractions for a 2026 cinematic release allows us to share this timely message amid America\u2019s 250th\u00a0year, when the topic of liberty will be at the forefront of conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Sight &amp; Sound\u2019s first feature film, I Heard the Bells, was released via Fathom Entertainment in 2022. Originally scheduled to be only a four-day theatrical\u00a0event,\u00a0 the release was extended to eight weeks with additional locations added due to high demand, ultimately grossing $5.6M.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Roadside Attractions has soared in the faith-based sector before with 2018\u2019s I Can Only Imagine, which grossed north of $83M at the domestic box office after a $17.1M weekend debut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">A Great Awakening seems like a movie you might watch in school or on a field trip to a historical site. It\u2019s cheesy and the acting is over the top, but it also seems like a feel good watch with a tiny bit of history thrown in. Check out the trailer below, and watch A Great Awakening in theaters next Easter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The studio Roadside Attractions has acquired the rights to Sight &amp; Sound\u2019s second movie, A Great Awakening, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":274855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[171,53,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-274854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115310903056644462","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}