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1.<\/a> The ratings<\/a> for Kings<\/a><\/i>, the TV series that modernizes the story of Saul and David, have not been very good \u2014 so NBC has decided to move the show from its current Sunday-night slot to Saturday night, \u201cwhere expectations are extremely small.\u201d Four episodes have been aired so far; the fifth will hit the airwaves April 18. \u2014 Variety<\/a><\/i>, Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

2.<\/a> The MPAA has upheld the R rating it gave to Year One<\/a><\/i>, 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 \u201csome sexual content and language.\u201d \u2014 Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

3.<\/a> Warner Brothers has acquired Methuselah<\/i>, an \u201caction adventure\u201d named after the biblical figure who lived to be 969 years old<\/a>. The film itself will concern a man who \u201cages at a similarly slow rate and has used all the extra time to develop an incredible set of survival skills.\u201d \u2014 Variety<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

4.<\/a> Megan Fox \u2014 having played Mother Teresa, sort of, in a movie-within-the-movie in How to Lose Friends & Alienate People<\/i> (2008) \u2014 is now set to play an angel in the indie drama Passion Plays<\/i>. The film, set in 1950s Los Angeles, will star Mickey Rourke as \u201ca down-on-his-heels trumpet player\u201d and Fox as \u201ca slender beauty with wings who is part of a carnival\u201d, in whom Rourke finds redemption after he tries to save her from a gangster. \u2014 Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i> (x2<\/a>)<\/p>\n

5.<\/a> Julia Roberts will produce Jesus Henry Christ<\/i>, 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 \u201cconceived in a petri-dish and raised by a loving, left-wing feminist\u201d, but who is now looking for his biological father. What this has to do with Jesus Christ, I have no idea. \u2014 Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"