now<\/em>.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Further:\u00a0If you are interested in setting up a screening for your family or for a Church group (e.g., an elders quorum, or Young Men, or Young Women, or a stake), click on the button marked \u201cBuy a Private Screening.\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019m told that such screenings can be arranged, in many cases, for a quite reasonable price.<\/p>\n
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And, finally:\u00a0\u00a0 If you yourself happen to own a theater, or if someone whom you know owns a theater, please click on the \u201cOwn a Theater?\u201d button on the Witnesses Film<\/em> website.\u00a0 There, you will be in a position to book the film for your theater.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Please, too, tell all the people that you know about Witnesses<\/em>.\u00a0 (Of course, if you see it and you don\u2019t like it, please take a vow of silence!)<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
I\u2019m deeply grateful for all of those who have made this possible and who have brought the project to this point.<\/p>\n
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The Witnesses<\/em> film is, for good or for ill, now finished.\u00a0 If it hasn\u2019t already been sent out to theaters, it will be sent out before the end of today.\u00a0 We who worked to create it can only sit back at this point and wait to see how it\u2019s received.\u00a0 Will people go to watch it?\u00a0 Will it engender the conversation that we\u2019ve hoped it would?\u00a0 Time will tell.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
As I\u2019ve explained here before, I\u2019ve learned that a movie\u2019s performance on its opening weekend \u2014 for us, in the specific case of Witnesses<\/em>, basically 4-5 June (Friday and Saturday) of next week (but also, in some areas, Wednesday, 2 June, and Thursday, 3 June) \u2014 is vitally important.\u00a0 If a film tanks at the box office, it will probably soon disappear from theaters and finding additional screens on which to show it will become considerably more difficult.\u00a0 If it performs well, if people go to see it, it will likely last longer in theaters and the case for yet other theaters to pick it up will become much more persuasive.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
So I, personally, am very excited that the week of the premiere has finally arrived.\u00a0 It\u2019s taken us a long time and a very great deal of work to get here.\u00a0 But, although I\u2019m confident that the film is a good one and I\u2019m happy that most who have seen various iterations of it thus far have liked it, I\u2019m also, quite unavoidably, just a tad nervous.\u00a0 Anticipation can be exciting.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 *** \u00a0 I\u2019m excited to announce that the number of theaters where the Interpreter Foundation\u2019s dramatic film\u00a0Witnesses will soon be available has just vastly increased.\u00a0 Vastly.\u00a0 Please take a look at the \u201cGet Tickets\u201d section on the Witnesses Film website and see whether there will now be a screening near you.\u00a0 Please don\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,259,1809,2905,1812,1815,7113,788,55,1667,5688,4003,921,6384,21713],"class_list":["post-91382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-book-of-mormon","tag-book-of-mormon-witnesses","tag-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints","tag-latter-day-saint","tag-latter-day-saints","tag-lds","tag-lds-church","tag-mormon","tag-mormonism","tag-mormons","tag-three-witnesses","tag-witness","tag-witnesses","tag-witnesses-film","tag-witnesses-of-the-book-of-mormon"],"yoast_head":"\n
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