‘Fireproof’ Still Hot
Fireproof , the 2008 sleeper hit from Sherwood Pictures, won the Gold Crown Award for Best Picture at last week’s International Christians in Visual Media ( ICVM ) Catalyst Conference in Denver, Colorado, according to a press release . Fireproof was also named Best Evangelistic Film and Best Screenplay
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Newsbites: The biblical spin-offs edition!
1. The Lion of Judah is the first computer-animated feature to be made in South Africa, and it happens to concern a bunch of barnyard animals who witness the events surrounding the first Easter. The eclectic cast includes Ernest Borgnine, Sandi Patty and Bruce Marchiano , who played Jesus in the Visual Bible adaptations of Matthew (1993) and Acts (1994) and will apparently do so again for this film.
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Most Easily Offended by Movies: Mormons
Just recently, we posted a blog bit about the top “faith-offending” films . Now we’ve learned which faith group is most easily offended: Mormons. According to a recent Religion News Service story , “Mormons are the faith group most likely to say Hollywood threatens their values, followed by Jehovah’s Witnesses and evangelicals, according to a new study by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.” The story also noted that “more than two-thirds of Mormons (68%) rebuffed the entertainment industry, followed by 54% of Jehovah’s Witnesses and 53% of evangelicals.
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Newsbites: The children’s literature edition!
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Yet another Darwin drama in the works!
Last week , I mentioned that there were one and maybe two new movies about Charles Darwin coming up in the near future, to coincide with the 200th anniversary of his birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species . Now comes word that yet another movie in that vein is in the works. National Geographic Television, which is best known for producing documentaries, announced a few days ago that they have just finished principal photography on their first-ever dramatic production, a two-hour movie called Darwin’s Darkest Hour that will air on the PBS series Nova October 6.
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Sand dunes in three dimensions, please!
Last year, in my review of Journey to the Center of the Earth , I wrote: Many of the more impressive scenes involve computer-generated backgrounds and other kinds of special effects, such as a sequence involving a loose bridge of levitating rocks that stretches across a deep, deep chasm. But there is wonder and awe to be had in some of the natural scenery, too.
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Archangels with machine guns at the end of the world
It’s getting to the point where you could almost base a small theology course on Paul Bettany movies.
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Nicky Cruz film update, and more
A new movie about former gang member Nicky Cruz, whose story was told in The Cross and the Switchblade ( the book and the 1970 film starring Pat Boone and Erik Estrada), is on track for release next summer. Run Baby Run , with a $12 million budget, will be intended for mainstream audiences, not just Christians, David Urabe, president of Convolo Productions, told the Colorado Springs Gazette . Cruz told The Gazette that it won’t be a “cheesy” Christian movie
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The Top Faith-Offending Films
The Los Angeles Times recently put together a feature called “Faith-Offending Films,” starting, interestingly, with Falling , the latest film from Richard Dutcher , the former Mormon who had already alienated LDS fans with edgier and edgier movies. ( LDS Review refused to review Falling because of its R rating, prompting quite a spirited debate in its comments.) Included in the Times list was The Passion of The Christ .
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Blue Like Effing Jazz?
Steve Taylor, director of the someday-upcoming Blue Like Jazz movie (based on the Donald Miller book of the same title), wonders just how many bad words to include in the film. Since the story is set on what the book calls “the most godless campus in America,” Taylor and his co-writers–including Miller–believed that truthful storytelling would include at least a bit of bad language, leaving some to wonder just how “blue” the script might be.
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