Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Amid another difficult year for cinemas, the small speciality distributor Fathom Events has enjoyed a 45 per cent rise in revenue driven by religious programming, anime and old movies instead of big-budget releases from Hollywood.\u00a0The company\u2019s hits this year include faith-based titles The Chosen, which has drawn religious audiences that might avoid mainstream movies with profanity or racy content. \u201cFaith has been a big category for us,\u201d says Ray Nutt, chief executive.\u00a0Colorado-based Fathom\u2019s success in drawing audiences who crave religious content comes as Hollywood executives are asking whether they need to adjust their programming to reach a middle American market following Donald Trump\u2019s decisive election victory. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of people that aren\u2019t in New York and LA and we\u2019ve got to make sure we\u2019re making movies and TV shows for everyone,\u201d says one executive.\u00a0Nutt pointed to the success this year of The Chosen, an eight-episode series about the life of Jesus Christ that grossed more than $31mn\u00a0at the box office, despite being available for free on its own streaming app. Response from Christian audiences was strong, thanks in part to the company\u2019s outreach to churches and \u201creligious influencers\u201d who helped get the word out.\u00a0\u201cPeople looked at us like we had two heads and said: \u2018that will never work in a movie theatre\u2019. But we knew the audience,\u201d Nutt said. \u201cPeople bought tickets in droves to see it.\u00a0It says something about the moviegoing experience and people wanting to gather communally.\u201dFathom\u2019s revenues of $145mn set a record for the 20-year-old company, though they are roughly equivalent to Universal\u2019s marketing budget for its latest blockbuster, Wicked. But Fathom\u2019s growth has outperformed that of the broader box office, which is down from 2023 due to a shortage of movies early in the year caused by the Hollywood strikes.\u00a0So far the US box office has grossed $7.8bn with less than three weeks left to match or exceed last year\u2019s total of $9bn, according to Box Office Mojo figures. The holiday season is off to a good start, however, thanks to Disney\u2019s Moana 2, Wicked and Paramount\u2019s Gladiator II. Cinemas are also hoping for a strong showing from Paramount\u2019s Sonic the Hedgehog sequel and Disney\u2019s Mufasa: The Lion King, both out on December 20.Fathom\u2019s holiday offerings include A Drummer Boy Christmas Live, a concert film of the Christian duo For King and Country, the Christian-themed I am the Immaculate Conception and a re-release of the 70-year-old Bing Crosby classic White Christmas. \u00a0The company, which is rebranding itself as Fathom Entertainment next month, has also had success by re-releasing anime classics such as Studio Ghibli\u2019s 2003 film Howl\u2019s Moving Castle. Other popular re-releases included Coraline, a stop-motion animated film from 2009 based on a book by Neil Gaiman, which grossed $34mn this year. \u00a0Nutt said that with the decline in major studio output since the pandemic, combined with the rising options on streaming, audiences are looking for more experiences at cinemas, whether concerts or speciality programming.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The company began adopting a more traditional release strategy in 2023 with The Blind, a biopic of Phil Robertson of \u201cDuck Dynasty\u201d, a reality TV show based on a family business in Louisiana that sells gear to duck hunters. That film was released far more widely than the bespoke approach it had taken with previous films, and it followed that strategy with 11 films in 2024. Despite its appeal to middle America, Fathom also caters to niche audiences with more highbrow tastes \u2014 including live transmissions of The Metropolitan Opera, which kick off next year with Aida on January 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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