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$\"\"$ <\/a>Ever since Son of God<\/a><\/i> opened in theatres on February 28, there has been at least one \u201cfaith-based\u201d movie in the North American top ten every week \u2014 and sometimes there have been two. But that streak could end after this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Heaven Is for Real<\/a><\/i>, which is now in its sixth week, landed in the #10 spot this weekend with an estimated $1.95 million, thereby raising its domestic total to $85.8 million. The film has earned another $2.5 million overseas, for a worldwide total of $88.2 million.<\/p>\n

All of the other \u201cfaith-based\u201d films in theatres right now were well behind Heaven Is for Real<\/i> this week, and there are no major \u201cfaith-based\u201d releases planned for next week (not to my knowledge, at any rate), so if Heaven Is for Real<\/i> gets bumped down another notch or two next week, that would mark the end of the streak.<\/p>\n

Still, three months is quite a run.<\/p>\n

The only other \u201cfaith-based\u201d films for which estimates were available today are Moms\u2019 Night Out<\/a><\/i> ($800,000 bringing its domestic total up to $8.8 million) and Noah<\/a><\/i> ($200,000 bringing its domestic total up to $100.6 million).<\/p>\n

Going into the weekend, as of Thursday, Son of God<\/i> had earned $59.7 million and God\u2019s Not Dead<\/a><\/i> had earned $59.3 million in North America.<\/p>\n

No foreign figures were reported for any of those films this week, so their foreign totals are all unchanged since last week\u2019s update<\/a> \u2014 except for God\u2019s Not Dead<\/i>, which has inched up to $1.4 million overseas, giving it a worldwide total of $60.7 million.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"