The Bible isn't the only Holy Week movie in town. A new version of Barabbas is getting its North American premiere on Reelz this week, while the National Geographic Channel just announced plans to adapt Bill O'Reilly's Killing Jesus. Read more
What do World War Z, Iron Man 3 and Star Trek into Darkness have in common? Based on their trailers, images of people being sucked out of airplanes (or starships) in mid-flight. Read more
If Jesus could appear in the Old Testament section of the Bible mini-series, why not have Moses or Elijah appear in the New Testament section? Here's a look at the (very) few Jesus films that have already depicted the Transfiguration. Read more
The third episode of The Bible -- which bridges the Old and New Testaments -- is a mixed bag like the others, but its treatment of Daniel and the Exile in Babylon is especially impressive. Read more
Several cartoons about Noah's Ark have been languishing in development hell for years -- but today one of them took a step closer to getting made, maybe. Here's an update on that film, and a few of the others. Read more
While we await the third episode of The Bible, I take a look back at 'The Bible Collection', a 13-part series of TV-movies released between 1993 and 2002. Read more
Yesterday I passed along the news that Exodus, Ridley Scott’s version of the life of Moses, was “gathering steam” at 20th Century Fox, even as Steven Spielberg had dropped out of directing another Moses movie over at Warner Brothers. Well, now comes word, via Deadline, that Fox and Scott are talking to Christian Bale — who landed one of his first acting gigs in Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun (1987) before growing up to star in the Dark Knight trilogy... Read more
First Ang Lee won the Oscar for Best Director that many people thought Steven Spielberg would get last month; now there are rumours that Lee might direct the life-of-Moses movie that Spielberg has been attached to for over a year. Deadline reports that Spielberg has decided not to direct Gods and Kings, the “epic-sized” Moses movie that Warner Brothers has been developing since at least 2010. Spielberg — who already alluded to the Moses story in Close Encounters of the... Read more