Tyler Perry’s The Gospel of Christmas premieres on Netflix on Wednesday, November 11, adding to the streamer’s early Christmas line-up. The film follows a struggling pastor who moves his family to New York to save a neglected neighbourhood church from foreclosure before Christmas.
The film is written and directed by Tyler Perry and stars Fantasia Barrino Taylor, Durrell “Tank” Babbs, Ricco Ross, John Gray, Chanté Moore, Yolanda Adams, Fred Hammond, Mason Douglas, Smokie Norful and Jekalyn Carr, according to Film Music Reporter. It is one of several Netflix originals arriving on Wednesday, alongside the series The Body and Alicia’s Law.
Christmas comes early to Netflix
Netflix viewers are already getting into the Christmas spirit, according to Hollywood Outbreak, which reports that A Dog’s Perfect Christmas landed at number one on the Netflix Top 10 chart for English-language movies, with 8.6 million views in its first week. The Gospel of Christmas joins that festive slate, and its November 11 release gives it six weeks to find an audience before Christmas Day.
The film’s premise is classic Perry: a family in crisis, a community at stake, and a deadline that forces a reckoning. The pastor’s move to New York puts his family in a troubled neighbourhood, where they must save the church from foreclosure, according to the synopsis carried by Sinema Focus.
A busy Wednesday for Netflix
The Gospel of Christmas arrives on a crowded day for the streamer, with The Body, Alicia’s Law, ChiaroScuro and the documentary Avedon all landing on the same date. Netflix’s November line-up also includes the film Heartland on Friday, November 13, and the second season of Love Is Blind, Habibi on Thursday, November 12.
Whether The Gospel of Christmas can match A Dog’s Perfect Christmas, which took the top spot with 8.6 million views, will be clear when next Tuesday’s Top 10 figures are published. For now, Perry’s film gives Netflix another Christmas title for viewers who have already started their festive watching in early November.
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