William Wilberforce and his friends and family sing it in Michael Apted’s Amazing Grace. And John Newton is moved to write it after he hears “an ancient East African melody” in Jeta Amata’s The Amazing Grace, which recently became the top-grossing film in Nigerian history. (It comes to the United Kingdom on July 16.) But wait. Newton died in England in 1807. And Wilberforce died in England in 1833. But the first evidence we have of that famous melody being... Read more
My second report from the junket for Evan Almighty is now up at CanadianChristianity.com. One more is in the pipeline… Read more
So says the Hawaii Tribune-Herald, at any rate. This doesn’t necessarily mean any part of the story will take place in Hawaii, though; the opening scenes in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) were filmed in Hawaii, but took place in South America. Interestingly, according to the same rumour mill which says that this film will concern aliens and Chariots of the Gods type stuff, this film — possibly titled Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods — may... Read more
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It was announced the other day that Marc Forster — director of Monster’s Ball (2001), Finding Neverland (2004), Stay (2005), Stranger Than Fiction (2006) and the upcoming The Kite Runner, among others — will direct the sequel to Casino Royale (2006). Forster, who was born in Germany and raised in Switzerland, is the first director of an “official” James Bond film to come from outside the British Commonwealth; until now, all the directors have come from the United Kingdom, New... Read more
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
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