{"id":1921,"date":"2006-11-13T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2006\/11\/newsbites-jesus-camp-invasion-frog-princess\/"},"modified":"2006-11-13T12:31:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-13T12:31:00","slug":"newsbites-jesus-camp-invasion-frog-princess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2006\/11\/newsbites-jesus-camp-invasion-frog-princess.html","title":{"rendered":"Newsbites: Jesus Camp! Invasion! Frog Princess!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span style=\"font-family: georgia\">Just a few quickies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">1.<\/a> <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2006\/novemberweb-only\/146-12.0.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Christianity Today<\/a><\/i> has another update on <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/newsbites-camp-donner-payback-clonus.html#1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the closure<\/a> of Becky Fischer\u2019s children\u2019s camp, which has come under attack since appearing in the documentary <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/jesus-camp-back-to-haunt-ted-haggard.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jesus Camp<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"2\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">2.<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2006\/11\/10\/invasion-wachowskis-to-rescue-kidman-movie\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">TMZ.com<\/a> reports that the Wachowski brothers (or \u201csiblings\u201d, as the website cheekily calls them), who wrote and directed the <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/08\/matrix-ordinations.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Matrix<\/a><\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/matrix-redux-spoilers-galore.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">trilogy<\/a>, have been brought in do an \u201cemergency rewrite\u201d on the ending of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/looks-like-its-invasion-after-all.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Invasion<\/a><\/i>, Oliver Hirschbiegel\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/nicole-kidman-in-yet-another-sci-fi.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">upcoming remake<\/a> of <i>Invasion of the Body Snatchers<\/i> (1956, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>TMZ.com makes it sound like the Wachowskis are working on the script right now, as we speak, but the film\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0427392\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">IMDB page<\/a> says an \u201cending re-shoot\u201d was finished in October.  Is <i>that<\/i> the ending that the Wachowskis wrote?  Or are they re-shooting the re-shoot?<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"3\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">3.<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/jimhillmedia.com\/blogs\/jim_hill\/archive\/2006\/11\/13\/6661.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jim Hill<\/a> parses some of John Lasseter\u2019s recent, and apparently controversial, decisions <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/disney-pulls-plug-on-toy-story-3.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">as head of<\/a> Walt Disney Feature Animation \u2014 especially where the upcoming <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0780521\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Frog Princess<\/a><\/i> is concerned.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"4\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">4.<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/comingsoon.net\/news\/indietopnews.php?id=17530\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">ComingSoon.net<\/a> has some more info, courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics, on <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/newsbites-borat-passion-abu-ghraib.html#3\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Errol Morris\u2019s Abu Ghraib documentary<\/a>, which is tentatively titled <i>S.O.P.<\/i> (for \u201cstandard operating procedure\u201d).<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few quickies. 1. 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