1. The ratings for Kings, the TV series that modernizes the story of Saul and David, have not been very good — so NBC has decided to move the show from its current Sunday-night slot to Saturday night, “where expectations are extremely small.” Four episodes have been aired so far; the fifth will hit the airwaves April 18. — Variety, Hollywood Reporter
2. The MPAA has upheld the R rating it gave to Year One, despite an appeal from producer Judd Apatow and writer-director Harold Ramis for something more lenient. The film, a comedy about a couple of prehistoric hunter-gatherer types who wander through the Book of Genesis, received the rating for “some sexual content and language.” — Hollywood Reporter
3. Warner Brothers has acquired Methuselah, an “action adventure” named after the biblical figure who lived to be 969 years old. The film itself will concern a man who “ages at a similarly slow rate and has used all the extra time to develop an incredible set of survival skills.” — Variety
4. Megan Fox — having played Mother Teresa, sort of, in a movie-within-the-movie in How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) — is now set to play an angel in the indie drama Passion Plays. The film, set in 1950s Los Angeles, will star Mickey Rourke as “a down-on-his-heels trumpet player” and Fox as “a slender beauty with wings who is part of a carnival”, in whom Rourke finds redemption after he tries to save her from a gangster. — Hollywood Reporter (x2)
5. Julia Roberts will produce Jesus Henry Christ, a feature-length expansion of a similarly-titled short film by Dennis Lee. The story concerns a 10-year-old boy named Henry James Hermin who was “conceived in a petri-dish and raised by a loving, left-wing feminist”, but who is now looking for his biological father. What this has to do with Jesus Christ, I have no idea. — Hollywood Reporter
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