The Invention of … "blasphemy"?
MTV Movies Blog reports that writer-directors Ricky Gervais and Matthew Robinson are “planning big controversies” with their upcoming film The Invention of Lying .
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The Invention of … "blasphemy"?
A Few Films of Note
A few movies recently released to DVD that Christian audiences might want to check out: > Journey Films ( Bonhoeffer , The Power of Forgiveness ) has released Albert Schweitzer: Called to Africa , which it is billing as “the compelling story of a theologian, musician and philosopher who abandoned a life of fame and comfort in Europe at the age of 30 to dedicate his life to the medical care of Africans.” (See the trailer here .) > Sherwood Baptist ( Fireproof, Facing the Giants ) isn’t the only church in the movie-making business. Others are also making their own films, including Bethesda Baptist Church of Brownsburg, IN, which recently released The Board to DVD. A press release says the film “captures the elements of life transforming films such as Chariots of Fire and Fireproof , telling the poignant story of how God speaks to each person’s soul.
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A Few Films of Note
‘Wickedly Entertaining’
When Harvey Weinstein and Quentin Tarantino showed Inglorious Basterds –a fictional film about Jews enacting brutal revenge on the Nazis–to a group that included children of Holocaust survivors, the reaction was mostly positive. The Wall Street Journal was there when Miramax chief Weinstein and director Tarantino screened the film at the Museum of Jewish Heritage
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‘Wickedly Entertaining’
Dungy Kicks off HS Football . . . in Theaters!
I love high school football, even though I never played the game. (Well, one year in youth league.) I’ve probably been to 300 high school games in my life — you just can’t beat it on a fall Friday night. Tony Dungy, the former Super Bowl-winning coach of the Indianapolis Colts, loves high school football too, so he’s helping America’s 1.2 million players kick off the season with Tony Dungy’s Red Zone ‘09 , showing in theaters across the country for one night only — Tuesday, August 25.
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Group Wants to End MPAA Ratings
Movieguide, a very conservative Christian organization, has launched a petition to urge the MPAA to drop what it calls a “failed” ratings system and “return to a ’standards-based’ Code of Decency,” according to an article on its own site.
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Committed actor wrecks pastor’s antique cabinet
Pastors beware! If you’re a clergyman and you’re thinking of letting a film crew into your home or office, be prepared for the odd bit of property damage — at least if the film stars Hugh Dancy, the star of this summer’s acclaimed romantic drama Adam . In the film, Dancy plays a man with a form of autism called Asperger’s syndrome, and in one scene he throws a fit that causes him to get a bit violent with the furniture — and apparently Dancy got so carried away that he accidentally kicked his foot through an antique cabinet. Writer-director Max Mayer tells WENN : “It was actually the pastor’s apartment in the church on the Upper West Side (in Manhattan)
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Newsbites: The religious women edition!
1. Mary Mother of Christ has a new director, and a couple new cast members as well
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Cliff Clavin, Hercules in Christian flick
Jenkins Entertainment recently finished shooting for its next film What If… , starring Kevin Sorbo ( Hercules ) and John Ratzenberger (Cliff Clavin on Cheers ). According to a press release , the movie, the sixth film from the father/son duo of Jerry and Dallas Jenkins, “tells the story of Ben Walker (Sorbo) who 15 years ago left the love of his life
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Dem Bones
The new trailer for The Lovely Bones is now up at Apple. It’s pretty awesome.
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And the biggest cartoon of all time overseas is …
For proof, if you needed it, that the animation business is no longer owned by Disney or any of its subsidiaries, look no further than Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs . According to the Hollywood Reporter , the third film in this prehistoric series has now passed Finding Nemo to become the top-grossing cartoon of all time overseas. Variety even notes that IA:DotD is poised to become only the ninth film ever — live-action or otherwise — to gross over $600 million in the “foreign” market.* It’s a much different story in North America, where IA:DotD currently ranks 21st among animated films and 117th among movies in general .
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