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Review:
Resurrection
(dir. Ciaran Donnelly, 2021)
This re-edited version of A.D. The Bible Continues makes the Resurrection of Jesus the hinge...
October 2020
October 09, 2020
The New Gospel
casts African activist as Jesus
The film compares the Jesus movement to the struggle for migrant workers' rights in Italy...
October 09, 2020
Jim Caviezel says the
Passion of the Christ
sequel is still happening
Caviezel says the script has now gone through three drafts -- or is it five?
July 2020
July 14, 2020
Is Michael Jackson’s daughter playing Jesus in a new film?
Habit wouldn't be the first movie to cast a woman as Jesus -- if that...
May 2020
May 06, 2020
Simon of Cyrene and his family, on film.
Why does Mark tell us who his sons were? Did Paul know his wife?
March 2020
March 08, 2020
Interview:
The Chosen
writer-director Dallas Jenkins on harmonizing the gospels, finding the emotional impact of Jesus’ ministry, and how his series resembles
The West Wing
and
Friday Night Lights
The Chosen aims to be the first multi-season series about the life of Jesus.
February 2018
February 02, 2018
Newsbites: The upcoming Jesus- or Messiah-movie edition!
Brief updates on Mary Magdalene, Messiah, Jesus Christ Superstar Live! and The Passion of the...
February 04, 2017
The Passion of the Christ
is back — and dubbed in English?
How will the new English-dubbed version of Mel Gibson's controversial film handle the bit from...
November 2016
November 02, 2016
Will there be demons in Mel Gibson’s
Resurrection
movie?
Gibson says his sequel to The Passion of the Christ will have bad guys from...
September 2016
September 09, 2016
Brad Pitt still wants to make that movie about Pontius Pilate
But he says it certainly won't be for fans of The Passion of the Christ.
September 06, 2016
Mel Gibson’s
Passion
sequel will jump back and forth in time between the Resurrection and the Old Testament
Gibson says "you can correlate them in an uncanny way."
August 2016
August 31, 2016
Mel Gibson talks about
Passion
sequel
The Resurrection
Plus: a new faith-oriented resources website for Gibson's upcoming war movie Hacksaw Ridge.
July 2016
July 10, 2016
The first four clips from
Ben-Hur
are now online, and a few other things we learned about the movie today
Some thoughts on how this new film will be different from all earlier versions of...
June 2016
June 29, 2016
A virtual-reality Jesus movie is coming this Christmas from the makers of
Left Behind
and
The Passion of the Christ
Plus: an actor who played one of the apostles in Risen plays a different apostle...
June 09, 2016
Is Mel Gibson making a sequel to
The Passion of the Christ
?
Frequent collaborator Randall Wallace has confirmed that he's writing a script about the Resurrection for...
March 2016
March 13, 2016
The Young Messiah
: rounding up the other interviews
Co-star Sean Bean (The Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones) says The Young Messiah...
February 2016
February 12, 2016
Watch: Four new TV spots, behind-the-scenes footage and a new featurette linking
Risen
to
The Passion of the Christ
Risen was edited by Steve Mirkovich, who also supervised The Passion Recut, the less-violent version...
January 2016
January 13, 2016
Watch: New featurette uses evangelical jargon to sell
Risen
Did you know that movies are "tools" that can be "leveraged"?
October 2015
October 31, 2015
A few brief words on horror and scary movies for Halloween
Why would Christians watch -- or make! -- scary movies?
May 2015
May 09, 2015
The prophet Isaiah at the movies: a quick round-up
Despite his prominence in the Old Testament, there are very few, if any, dramatizations of...
October 2014
October 06, 2014
National Geographic unveils the cast for
Killing Jesus
The adaptation of Bill O'Reilly's book will feature an actor born in Lebanon as Jesus,...
July 2014
July 26, 2014
“Drug dealers, money launderers, and kidnappers”:
Esquire
looks at what happened to Benedict Fitzgerald and his proposed prequel to
The Passion of the Christ
I've been tracking news about Myriam, Mother of the Christ -- later called Mary Mother...
July 25, 2014
Christ the Lord
gets an Easter 2016 release date
The adaptation of Anne Rice's novel about the early years of Jesus will come out...
April 2014
April 21, 2014
The Battle of the Bible Films — the article’s up!
My latest look at the Bible-epic revival is a feature article for Christianity Today that...
April 13, 2014
Box office update:
Noah
slips in N. America but stays strong overseas, while
God’s Not Dead
sets a new record
Darren Aronofsky's Noah is now the second-highest-grossing Bible adaptation of all time worldwide, behind only...
April 11, 2014
On asking questions, not assuming answers, about
Noah
A response to Brian Godawa's response to my response to him: Can we appreciate Darren...
March 2014
March 06, 2014
Noah
news round-up: New images, a Mexico City premiere, a Muslim ban, some unusual merchandising, and more
Here are several items that have popped up in recent days about Darren Aronofsky's Bible...
March 03, 2014
Is seeing a Bible movie on opening weekend more important than going to church? Is it a way of “honouring God”?
Son of God had one of the best openings ever for a movie aimed specifically...
February 2014
February 18, 2014
Paramount comes out swinging against
Variety
’s
Noah
story
The studio responds to a poorly-written story that slammed the film's box-office prospects. Is this...
February 14, 2014
Church groups “taking over” theatres for
Son of God
Churches across the country are booking entire multiplexes for the life-of-Jesus movie the night before...
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