SpeedCine
Veteran indie publicist Reid Rosefelt is launching a site called SpeedCine, which will launch in July as a database of all the movies that are legally available for viewing online. This will be a great resource for anyone who has moral issues with the so-called “free” content that the internet makes available. Until then, Reid is blogging about the industry.
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SpeedCine
Tom Hanks: Pawn of Satan?
“It’s sad that a great actor like Tom Hanks has become a pawn of Satan and is aiding the cover-up of the existence of the Illuminati today and is a part of Dan Brown’s fraud.” So says Mark Dice , author of The Illuminati: Facts & Fiction , of the movie star’s role in the upcoming film version of Angels & Demons , based on Brown’s book of the same title. A&D is a prequel to The Da Vinci Code .
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Tom Hanks: Pawn of Satan?
Newsbites: The ’80s live forever edition!
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WWJD: The Movie
According to a press release from Nasser Entertainment, Charles Sheldon’s classic Christian book, In His Steps , is being made into a film called What Would Jesus Do? Production by Nasser Entertainment begins in May, but no potential release date was given. The company specializes in made-for-TV programming
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Odysseus without the odyssey?
Warner Brothers sure likes its Greek myths and legends.
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Odysseus without the odyssey?
Yet another Nativity movie in the works.
Three years ago, New Line Cinema produced The Nativity Story . Next month, MGM will begin shooting Mary, Mother of Christ . And now, according to Variety , Fox Searchlight is “fast-tracking” the gospel musical Black Nativity , based on the Langston Hughes show that has been playing continuously in various cities since it premiered on Broadway in 1961; it was, in fact, one of the first plays written by an African-American to open there
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Yet another Nativity movie in the works.
Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw to play real-life evangelical couple
Patrick Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times reports that Warner Brothers is making a movie based on The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game , a book by Michael Lewis about “Michael Oher, a 6-foot-5, 350-pound African American teenager who is transformed from a homeless vagabond to a star football player, largely thanks to Leigh Anne Tuohy, a dynamic evangelical Christian who helps provide him with a surrogate family and a shot at success in life.” While the bulk of Goldstein’s column looks at Quinton Aaron, the 24-year-old, 6-foot-8 and 380-pound actor who has been hired to play Oher, Goldstein also mentions that Sandra Bullock is set to play Tuohy, and Tim McGraw will play Tuohy’s husband Sean. It’s anybody’s guess how prominent the religious themes will be in the film itself, but for what it’s worth, when Collin Hansen reviewed the book for Christianity Today two years ago, he called it “a gripping tour through the world of college recruiting, professional football strategy, and the volatile mix of faith and sports” — and the film is being written and directed by John Lee Hancock, who also directed the Dennis Quaid baseball movie The Rookie (2002), so that bodes well, at least.
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Newsbites: The biblical and religious edition!
1. Marlon Wayans has been hired to produce and star in the film version of The Year of Living Biblically . This is worrying, for two reasons: First, his surprisingly decent performance in Requiem for a Dream (2000) aside, Wayans is best known for really dumb comedy, whether as a supporting character in movies like Dungeons & Dragons (2000) or as a collaborator with his brothers on lowbrow fare like White Chicks (2004) and the first two Scary Movies (2000-2001).
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Slumdog’s Young Star for Sale?
News of the World claims that the father of Slumdog Millionaire child star Rubina Ali tried to sell his 9-year-old daughter to become a millionaire himself. The British tabloid got the alleged story by having a reporter pose as an Arab “sheik,” from whom the girl’s father supposed demanded millions of Indian rupees–worth about $300,000 in the U.S. NOTW quoted the father, Rafiq Qureshi, as saying he wanted his family to escape Mumbai’s slums, adding, “I have to consider what’s best for me, my family and Rubina’s future.” But People magazine says Qureshi refutes the report, saying it was a “lie made up by foreign journalists playing games with me.” He told People there had been an offer but insisted that he had feigned interest out of politeness: “In India, you never say ‘no’ directly, least of all to guests
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Ron Howard Fights Back
Catholic League president William Donohue has been dissing the upcoming Angels & Demons –the prequel to The Da Vinci Code –for a couple of months now, claiming the film to be a “smear” on the Catholic Church.
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Ron Howard Fights Back
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