Robbie Brenner Gary Safady Deborah Giarratana Craig Chapman Mark Forster
Starring
Gerard Butler Michelle Monaghan Michael Shannon
Cinematography
Roberto Schaefer
Edited by
Matt Chessé
Music by
Asche & Spencer
Production companies
Apparatus Safady Entertainment 1984 Private Defense Contractors Mpower Pictures Virgin Produced
Distributed by
Relativity Media (North America) Lionsgate (International)[2]
Release dates
September 11, 2011 (2011-09-11) (TIFF)[1]
September 23, 2011 (2011-09-23) (United States)[2]
Running time
129 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$30 million[3]
Box office
$3.3 million[3]
Machine Gun Preacher is a 2011 American biographical action drama film[3] directed by Marc Forster and starring Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, and Michael Shannon. It tells the story of Sam Childers, a former gang biker turned preacher, and his efforts to protect, in collaboration with the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), the children of South Sudan from the atrocities of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). The screenplay by Jason Keller was adapted from Childers' book Another Man's War[4] and Ian Urbina's Vanity Fair article "Get Kony".[5]
The film premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival[6] and opened in the United States on September 23, 2011.[2]
^""Machine Gun Preacher" Premiere - 2011 Toronto International Film Festival". 93.3 WMMR. June 29, 2017. Retrieved June 25, 2020.
^ abc"TOLDJA! Relativity Taking Over Distribution Of 'Machine Gun Preacher' From Lionsgate; Release Date Set For Sept. 23". Deadline.com. July 7, 2011. Retrieved July 10, 2011.
^ abc"Machine Gun Preacher (2011)". Box Office Mojo. December 1, 2011. Retrieved January 29, 2015.
^"Machine Gun Preacher - review". London Evening Standard. November 4, 2011. Retrieved November 4, 2011.
^Urbina, Ian (May 2010). "Get Kony". Vanity Fair.
^"Machine Gun Preacher: Toronto Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. September 12, 2011. Retrieved June 25, 2020.
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