{"id":1977,"date":"2012-02-15T09:30:09","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T14:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/faithmediaandculture\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2012-02-15T09:30:09","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T14:30:09","slug":"man-on-a-mission-rick-bieber-the-5th-quarter-signs-3-movie-deal-with-major-faith-based-distributor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2012\/02\/man-on-a-mission-rick-bieber-the-5th-quarter-signs-3-movie-deal-with-major-faith-based-distributor.html","title":{"rendered":"Man on a Mission: Rick Bieber (&#8220;The 5th Quarter&#8221;) signs 3-movie deal with major faith-based distributor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are today&#8217;s dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture.<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0 <strong>Rick Bieber on a mission.<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/missionpicsintl.com\/\">Mission Pictures International<\/a> has inked a three-picture production deal with Rick Bieber,\u00a0 the writer,director and producer of the Golden Crescent Best Film award-winning film <em><a href=\"http:\/\/the5thquartermovie.com\/\">The 5<sup>th<\/sup> Quarter<\/a>.<\/em> The movies will be co-produced by Mission&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/faithmediaandculture\/2011\/08\/cindy-bond-and-chevonne-oshaughnessy-are-on-a-faith-filled-cinematic-mission.html\">Cindy Bond and Chevonne O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/a>. <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The 5<sup>th<\/sup> Quarter<\/em>, which stars Aidan Quinn, Andie McDowell and Ryan Merriman,\u00a0is based on a true story that began with a tragic fatal car crash that took the life of fifteen-year-old Luke Abbate. Wearing Luke&#8217;s number 5 jersey, his brother Jon leads his underdog Wake Forest Demon Deacons to the ACC Championship, the most successful season in their 105-year history. The inspirational film was released in theaters last March and is currently available on Blu-Ray and DVD via Fox Home Entertainment.<em>\u00a0 <\/em>The inspirational film garnered over a dozen festival awards and has been endorsed by The Dove Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"The 5th Quarter Trailer 2011 (HD)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f7Tz0nq2OdI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the deal, Bieber says \u201cI was immediately drawn to Cindy and Chevonne&#8217;s shared belief that important movies can not only entertain, but teach and hopefully inspire as well&#8230;They have been great partners, and I&#8217;m very excited about now extending our relationship to include co-producing a new slate of films together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the<em> The 5<sup>th<\/sup> Quarter, <\/em>Bieber also directed, co-wrote and produced the biopic <em>Crazy, <\/em>about legendary guitarist Hank Garland. That film stars <em><\/em>Waylon Payne (<em>Walk the Line) <\/em>and Ali Larter (<em>Heroes) <\/em>and has collected seventeen major festival awards<em>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>Along with the production of over 30 television and cable movies, Bieber has also produced or executive produced several feature films including <em>Aurora Borealis<\/em> (starring Josh Jackson, Juliette Lewis and Donald Sutherland), <em>Flatliners<\/em> (directed by Joel Schumacher and starring Julia Roberts, Keifer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin and Oliver Platt), <em>Made in America<\/em> (starring Whoopi Goldberg and Ted Danson), <em>Radio Flyer<\/em> (directed by Dick Donner and starring Elijah Wood, Lorraine Bracco and John Heard), <em>Hard Promises<\/em> (starring William Peterson and Sissy Spacek) and <em>The Illusion<\/em> (starring Michael Goorjian and Kirk Douglas), among others.<\/p>\n<p><em>Encourage one another and build each other up \u2013 <\/em>1 Thessalonians 5:11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are today&#8217;s dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 1.\u00a0 Rick Bieber on a mission. Mission Pictures International has inked a three-picture production deal with Rick Bieber,\u00a0 the writer,director and producer of the Golden Crescent Best Film award-winning film The 5th Quarter. The movies will be co-produced by Mission&#8217;s Cindy Bond and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,24,29],"tags":[35,2416,2412,2421,2413,2422,2418,2411,2424,2417,2409,2419,2431,2423,2425,2426,2430,2414,2428,2408,2429,2407,2410,1491,2432,2415,2420,2427],"class_list":["post-1977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-matters","category-movies","category-sports","tag-1-thessalonians-511","tag-acc-championship","tag-aidan-quinn","tag-ali-larter-heroes","tag-andie-mcdowell-and-ryan-merriman","tag-aurora-borealis-starring-josh-jackson","tag-biopic-crazy","tag-cindy-bond-and-chevonne-oshaughnessy","tag-flatliners-directed-by-joel-schumacher-and-starring-julia-roberts","tag-fox-home-entertainment","tag-golden-crescent-best-film","tag-hank-garland","tag-hard-promises-starring-william-peterson-and-sissy-spacek","tag-juliette-lewis-and-donald-sutherland","tag-keifer-sutherland","tag-kevin-bacon","tag-lorraine-bracco-and-john-heard","tag-luke-abbate","tag-made-in-america-starring-whoopi-goldberg-and-ted-danson","tag-mission-pictures-international","tag-radio-flyer-directed-by-dick-donner-and-starring-elijah-wood","tag-rick-bieber","tag-the-5th-quarter","tag-the-dove-foundation","tag-the-illusion-starring-michael-goorjian-and-kirk-douglas","tag-wake-forest-demon-deacons","tag-waylon-payne-walk-the-line","tag-william-baldwin-and-oliver-platt"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Man on a Mission: Rick Bieber (&quot;The 5th Quarter&quot;) signs 3-movie deal with major faith-based distributor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2012\/02\/man-on-a-mission-rick-bieber-the-5th-quarter-signs-3-movie-deal-with-major-faith-based-distributor.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Man on a Mission: Rick Bieber (&quot;The 5th Quarter&quot;) signs 3-movie deal with major faith-based distributor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here are today&#8217;s dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 1.\u00a0 Rick Bieber on a mission. 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