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ALCON ENTERTAINMENT PICKS UP FEATURE “HILLSONG – LET HOPE RISE”

An Up Close and Personal Journey with the World’s Most Successful Worship Band

 

LOS ANGELES, CA, July 1, 2014—Alcon Entertainment has acquired HILLSONG – LET

HOPE RISE for worldwide release by Warner Bros. Pictures, it was announced today by Alcon

principals Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson.

 

The full-length feature documentary, directed by Michael John Warren (Jay-Z’s “Fade to

Black”), chronicles the spectacular rise to prominence of the Australia-based Christian worship

band Hillsong UNITED. Matthew Weaver of MediaWeaver Entertainment and Jonathan Bock

of Grace Hill Media are producing. B. Wayne Hughes, Jr. and Greg Campbell of Cantinas

Entertainment, which is financing the feature, are executive producing. Warner Bros. Pictures

will release the film on April 3, 2015.

 

The movie will present the band’s remarkable journey from a youth group band at Hillsong

Church to worldwide sensation, routinely performing sold-out stadium concerts and selling more

than 16 million albums all over the world.

 

In a joint statement, Kosove and Johnson said, “In terms of reach, Hillsong UNITED is one

of the biggest bands out there, Christian or otherwise. But at their core, they’re just a group

of unassuming individuals impacting the world with their music. We’re thrilled to be part of

bringing their extraordinary story to the big screen.”

 

Led by Joel Houston, son of Hillsong Church founders Brian and Bobbie Houston, all of

Hillsong UNITED’s 11-member band are volunteers or employees of the church. Their songs are

so popular is it estimated that on any given Sunday, more than 30 million churchgoers around the

world are singing one of Hillsong’s worship songs.

 

“With songs like Mighty to Save, Oceans, Hosanna and From the Inside Out, anyone who

regularly attends a church knows Hillsong’s music by heart. That’s how influential they’ve

become,” Bock said. “And yet despite the fame and adulation, they’re still just a simple worship

band trying to do what tens of thousands of other worship bands try to do every week — glorify

God through their music. How they balance that is a fascinating and surprising story.”

 

The filmmakers will follow the band as it completes its current tour and prepares to record its

next album. The film will marry live concert footage with a narrative structure.

 

“It’s a little weird and a lot humbling to have a movie made about us,” Joel Houston said. “But

we didn’t say ‘yes’ to this to draw attention to ourselves. It’s our hope that by sharing an up-
close and unvarnished look inside our music and lives, we can shatter pre-conceived notions of

what it means to follow Jesus in today’s modern world.”

 

Hillsong Church spans 12 global locations with more than 100,000 weekly attendees, including

thriving congregations in New York and Los Angeles. In addition to its music efforts, Hillsong

sponsors worldwide ministry work – examples include feeding and educating children in the

slums of India, building housing for those living with AIDS in Africa and rescuing victims of

human trafficking around the globe – outreaches paid for in part through proceeds from Hillsong

UNITED music and merchandise sales

 

ABOUT ALCON ENTERTAINMENT

Co-founders and co-CEO’s Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson founded Alcon Entertainment in 1997

with partner Frederick W. Smith, the Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of FedEx. Warner

Bros. distributes Alcon’s motion pictures via the companies’ long-term output distribution agreement.

 

Alcon has financed and produced, and/or co-financed/produced 23 films to date, including My Dog

Skip; Insomnia, starring Al Pacino, Robin Williams, and Hilary Swank and directed by Chris Nolan;

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants; P.S. I Love You, starring Hilary Swank; the Academy Award

nominated Best Picture The Blind Side, which earned Sandra Bullock a Best Actress Oscar; The Book of

Eli, starring Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman; the hit family film Dolphin Tale, starring Morgan

Freeman, Harry Connick Jr., Ashley Judd and Kris Kristofferson; Prisoners, the critically acclaimed

thriller directed by Denis Villeneuve starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal; and Transcendence,

starring Johnny Depp. Alcon’s next release is Dolphin Tale 2, a sequel to the 2011 box-office success that

reunites the original cast. Alcon is currently in pre-production on Point Break, a reimagining of the classic

action movie, starring Edgar Ramirez.

 

Alcon Television Group is currently producing the drama pilot Hysteria with Shaun Cassidy and Adam

Schroeder for Amazon; a four-hour mini-series documentary for HBO about the life and times of Frank

Sinatra, directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney; and The Expanse, a ten-episode epic space

thriller for Syfy Network.

 

ABOUT CANTINAS ENTERTAINMENT, LLC

Cantinas Entertainment, LLC, founded in 2014 by Greg Campbell and B. Wayne Hughes Jr., seeks to

inspire and engage audiences disillusioned with the landscape of cynicism – and to offer a dependable

choice in entertainment. Upcoming projects include a film based on Brenda Spahn’s book “Miss Brenda

and the Loveladies,” with Donald Petrie (“How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days,” “Miss Congeniality,”) set to

direct.