Okay, I exaggerate. But not by much. Remember how I said there would be no screenings in Vancouver of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, except for a preview scheduled mere hours before the film’s release? It turns out that that film was shown in a few other cities, such as New York, a day earlier than that. Now 20th Century Fox is doing the exact same thing with Live Free or Die Hard. The film opens across the... Read more
My review of A Mighty Heart is now up at CT Movies. Read more
My article on Ark Almighty, a good-deeds program created as part of the promotion for Evan Almighty, is now up at CT Movies. Read more
LOS ANGELES, CA — It has been four years since Bruce Almighty conquered the box office, and a lot has happened at the intersection of faith and film since then. Many Christians were leery of the film when they heard that it starred Jim Carrey as a man who is endowed with supernatural powers after he complains that God isn’t doing a good enough job of running the world. But many Christians were pleasantly surprised to discover that, despite its... Read more
Wanda Sykes is on Late Night with Conan O’Brien right now, as I type this, talking about how she was interviewed by a bunch of religious reporters, including a nun, at the press junket for Evan Almighty. This is funny to me, because I was sitting next to the nun in question at the time, and I remember certain aspects of the conversation that Sykes is riffing on. I even have it on mp3. Read more
My first report from the junket for Evan Almighty is now up at CT Movies. Two more are in the pipeline… Read more
On a recent sunny Saturday afternoon on the Universal Studios back lot, several journalists are preparing to interview the cast of Evan Almighty, many with one question on their minds: Where’s God? Most everyone here is impressed by the performance of Morgan Freeman, who is back playing God four years after he, um, created the role in Bruce Almighty. But Freeman himself is nowhere to be found. This is not too surprising, as Freeman is a busy actor whose talents... Read more
Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood Daily has some interesting comments on the box-office prospects for Evan Almighty, which opens this Friday. Given that this is rumoured to be the most expensive comedy ever made, it sounds like the studio has good reason to be concerned it might not make its money back. It’s an interesting read, and you can make what you will of it, but one paragraph leaves me scratching my head: Universal moguls have convinced themselves that religious... Read more
The Hollywood Reporter, via Reuters, reports that Italian state attorneys have launched a criminal investigation into The Da Vinci Code (2006), following a complaint filed earlier this year by Catholic clergy who allege that the film violates an Italian law forbidding “obscene” treatments of religion in film. Ten people, including director Ron Howard and author Dan Brown, are named in the complaint, and could in theory be fined or sent to jail. The authorities say they have no idea why... Read more
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