By Jessilyn Lancaster
Dear Leonardo DiCaprio,
I heard you were bemoaning the change in movie theaters and how they’re no longer the entertainment powerhouses they once were.
You told The Times: “It’s changing at a lightning speed. We’re looking at a huge transition. First, documentaries disappeared from cinemas. Now, dramas only get finite time and people wait to see it on streamers. I don’t know…Do people still have the appetite? Or will cinemas become silos — like jazz bars?”
People definitely still have the appetite for movie theaters. ZOOTOPIA 2, which has only been at the box office for a little over a month, crossed the $1 billion mark at the global box office just 17 days after its theatrical debut. This milestone makes it fastest PG-rated and one of the quickest animated films ever to reach this marker worldwide, according to Disney News.
The highest-grossing movies of the year all have one thing in common: they’re geared toward families and contain positive, uplifting values that promote Christian and biblical themes.
Where did ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER land on the yearly round-up? No. 30. Wanna know why? It’s not because moviegoers have lost their appetite for going to the theaters. It’s because your movie contained at least 142 obscenities (including at least 113 “f” words), 13 GD profanities and five light profanities. According to our thorough analysis, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER also has a strong humanist, communist worldview that’s anti-American and anti-capitalist, plus a secret racist cabal of white men are Christian (which fits in with the movie’s anti-Christian communist worldview).
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Meanwhile, A MINECRAFT MOVIE, took first place at the box office for 2025. According to the Movieguide® review, A MINECRAFT MOVIE contains a strong redemptive, morally uplifting worldview where five new friends band together to fight the evil, greedy queen who wants to create a dark world where there can be no joy or creativity. Friends find strength and love through building friendships with each other, a self-absorbed character risks his life to save his friend, and hero rebukes villain by telling her that cowards choose to destroy things because it’s easier but building things is better.
Need more proof?
The live-action LILO & STITCH came in second place. Our review found LILO & STITCH promoted a very strong moral, pro-family worldview, with some Christian, redemptive content extolling sacrifice and offering an allegorical death and resurrection where answered prayer helps a lonely little girl find a friend she can love who will love her back.
OK, OK, I hear you. Those are children’s movies. You don’t make movies for children. You’re here for the adults.
In that case, let me draw your attention to James Gunn’s DCU debut of SUPERMAN. Once again, here’s a movie with a strong moral pro-life worldview with a light redemptive tone promotes doing the right thing, compassion, justice, fighting and overcoming tyrannical evil, setting the captives free and protecting and saving lives.
Hot on SUPERMAN’s box office ranking is JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH. I bet you can guess what I’m going to say next: Strong moral pro-family worldview with a caring father, a pro-life theme that life will find a way, a strong act of sacrifice, and people say, “Thank God” several times.
This one had a bit more language than the others, though, with 13 obscenities (mostly “h” words, a few “s” words, an SOB and 12 light exclamatory profanities).
I think you get my point.
Would you rather watch Leonardo DiCaprio on screen or a family movie?
So to answer your question on if people have lost the appetite for theaters? No. But they have lost their appetite for filth. Life is heavy enough. We don’t want to go to the theaters for an assault on our senses. Instead, we go to feel good. We want to see good defeat evil. We want redemption, forgiveness, sacrifice.
According to our Annual Movieguide® Report to the Entertainment Industry,
About 33.45 million Christian children and teenagers in the U.S. and Canada go to movies at least once a year.
In addition, about 6.35 million Christian children and teenagers in North America go to movies at least 12 times a year, buying nearly 76.27 million tickets.
Hollywood can’t afford to ignore the faith and values of these millions of Christians, including the faith and values of millions of Christian children and teenagers who see movies.
You told The Times, “I just hope enough people, who are real visionaries, get opportunities to do unique things in the future that are seen in the cinema. But that remains to be seen.”
It takes the weakest form of creative to rely on excessive language, violence, sex, drug use and immorality. Instead, the real visionary is one who rises above.
What are the chances you can be the one who uses your God-given ability to sort through the filth and instead create something inspirational?
That’s our prayer.
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