{"id":35128,"date":"2015-09-08T15:56:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T22:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=35128"},"modified":"2015-09-08T15:56:19","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T22:56:19","slug":"last-days-in-the-desert-gets-a-north-american-distributor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2015\/09\/last-days-in-the-desert-gets-a-north-american-distributor.html","title":{"rendered":"<i>Last Days in the Desert<\/i> gets a North American distributor"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2015\/09\/lastdaysinthedesert-cropped.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2015\/09\/lastdaysinthedesert-cropped-1024x363.jpg\" alt=\"lastdaysinthedesert-cropped\" width=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-35129\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eight months after <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/tag\/last-days-in-the-desert\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Last Days in the Desert<\/a><\/i> premiered at Sundance, the film, which stars Ewan McGregor as both Jesus and Satan, has finally got a distributor.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><i><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2015\/film\/news\/last-days-in-the-desert-broad-green-ewan-mcgregor-1201588183\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Variety<\/a><\/i> reports that Broad Green Pictures, which is handling such films as <i>A Walk in the Woods<\/i> and Terrence Malick\u2019s <i>Knight of Cups<\/i>, has acquired <i>Last Days in the Desert<\/i> and plans to release it through \u201cdo-it-yourself distributor\u201d Tugg.<\/p>\n<p>The company is currently eyeing a release sometime next year \u2014 presumably <i>after<\/i> the Jesus films <i>Risen<\/i> (January 22), <i>Ben-Hur<\/i> (February 26) and <i>The Young Messiah<\/i> (March 11) have come and gone. 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