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Looks like there will be one less Jesus movie this year.<\/p>\n

The Shack<\/a><\/i> \u2014 based on William Paul Young\u2019s best-selling novel about a grieving father who meets all three persons of the Trinity \u2014 was originally going to come out in August, and then it got bumped<\/a> to the Friday before the American Thanksgiving. But now, Deadline<\/a> reports that the film has been reassigned to March 3, which is the first Friday in Lent according to both the western and eastern traditions next year.<\/p>\n

In November, the film would have opened against the Harry Potter<\/a><\/i> spin-off Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them<\/a><\/i>. Now, it will open against the third Wolverine<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n

No reasons were given for the change in release date, though two come to mind.<\/p>\n

First, the studio behind the film, Lionsgate, has just announced that it will release Mel Gibson\u2019s war movie Hacksaw Ridge<\/a><\/i> on November 4 to give it a shot at winning some end-of-the-year awards \u2014 and Deadline reports that Hacksaw Ridge<\/i>, which concerns a Seventh-Day Adventist<\/a> who became the first conscientious objector to win the Congressional Medal of Honor, has \u201cfaith-based nuances\u201d of its own.<\/p>\n

So presumably the studio didn\u2019t want two of its own movies \u2014 both of which have \u201cfaith-based\u201d elements \u2014 competing for the same audience at the same time.<\/p>\n

Second, it has become quite common in the last few years to release \u201cfaith-based\u201d films during Lent. From mid-February to mid-April this year, there was at least one \u201cfaith-based\u201d film in the weekly top ten every week, and sometimes two.<\/p>\n

So presumably Lionsgate thinks that would be an ideal time for The Shack<\/i>, too.<\/p>\n

The Shack<\/i> is set in the present day and does not, as far as I know, depict any scenes from the Bible \u2014 but it does include Jesus as one of its key characters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It would have been the last of several Jesus movies released this year \u2014 following Risen<\/a><\/i>, The Young Messiah<\/a><\/i>, Last Days in the Desert<\/a><\/i>, Ben-Hur<\/a><\/i> and even Hail, Caesar!<\/a><\/i> \u2014 but now, barring any further changes, it will have to be the first of next year.<\/p>\n

\u2014 The photo above shows Andrew Garfield as Desmond Doss in <\/i>Hacksaw Ridge.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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