Mill Creek Entertainment Selects June 11 As The DVD Debut Date For The Dove Award-Winning Forty-Seven Days With Jesus

Mill Creek Entertainment has selected June 11 for the DVD debut of the writing and directing team of David M. Gutel and Emilio Palame’s Dove Award-winning film, Forty-Seven Days with Jesus.

This was a limited Fathom Event release with a reported one-night box office gross of $348,317 … the ARR works out 88 days.  However, Pinnacle Peak Pictures in association with the Faith Content Network, have also held numerous church-hosted screenings of the film (box office revenues unknown) … all generated by word of mouth.

Forty-Seven Days with Jesus is a different faith-based film than one might expect.   The opening framework is not atypical in that Joseph and Juliana Burdon are parents struggling with family tensions.  

Joseph and Juliana are played by two stars of the very popular theatrical and broadcast series, The Chosen.  Audiences drawn to this film are likely familiar with, and fans of, both Yoshi Barrigas, who plays Philip in series and recording artist Catherine Lidstone as Mary (plus such films — Dead in the Water, Guardian Angel, Proof Sheet, Salvation Street, etc.).  

This is a major selling point for Mill Creek Entertainment’s DVD release of Forty-Seven Days with Jesus on June 11.

As the film begins, they feel that a family visit to Joseph’s parents, Poppa (Emilio Palame) and Noona (Norma Maldonado) is in order, so off they go with their two children, Daniel (Adam Perez Courtney) and Emma (Aliyah Camacho) in tow.   

Once there, the conversation eventually gets around to family problems and Poppa, who is having health issues of his own.  He begins to tell his heartfelt story about the final days of Jesus.  It is here that the film opens up to be more than just a faith-based family drama.   

Through Poppa’s words we, as the audience, are transported back in time to the very events that he is talking about.  Among the cast members introduced at this point are recording Jonathan Byram as Jesus, Erin Etoroma in her film debut as Mary Magdalene, Stephen Hailo as Judas, Cameron Arnett as Pontius Pilate and Cassie Byram as Mary.

As Poppa’s story unfolds, the parallels become clear.   Mill Creek Entertainment’s June 11 DVD debut of Forty-Seven Days with Jesus has a built-in audience, and perhaps, with the Dove Award, solid reviews and its faith-based message a wider following for the film might be in the offing.