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The Exorcist and Bible-movie actors — an update
A former Simon Peter plays a priest in The Exorcist: Martyrs, which just got its first trailer.
 • Peter T Chattaway
The Chosen – parable index
A quick list of which parables the life-of-Jesus series has included, and which parables it hasn’t.
 • Peter T Chattaway
The Chosen – season five, episode three
In which Jesus publicly confronts the religious leaders one last time. Also: notes on ominous predictions, visions of psalmists, Jerusalem sunsets…
 • Peter T Chattaway
Box office: Hathaway’s Verity hits while Cruise’s Digger bombs
Verity had the best opening of any live-action film in which Anne Hathaway has had top billing, while Digger had the worst opening of any film led by…
 • Peter T Chattaway

September 2026

The Chosen – season five, episode two
Some Gentiles come to the Temple to worship the Jewish God, John gets to know one of the high priest’s servants, Jesus performs a shocking act of…
 • Peter T Chattaway
Box office: Avengers: Endgame leads diverse slate of new-to-this-week releases
The superhero re-release was joined by an indie reality-TV drama, a major-studio survival thriller, and an animated tribute to female friendship.
 • Peter T Chattaway
Super-brief newsbites: The Chosen! Daniel! The Promised Land! The Flood!
The Chosen finishes shooting its final season, the Koomans celebrate Daniel and the Fiery Furnace’s release, and The Promised Land and The Flood: End of…
 • Peter T Chattaway
Daniel and the Fiery Furnace: a closer look at the opening scenes in Jerusalem
The movie condenses about 20 years of history into a few action-packed moments. Here are all of the Bible passages that the movie pulls together, and…
 • Peter T Chattaway
The Chosen announces a new Christmas episode coming in December
The episode — which is coming to Fox — will tie into the events of Season 6, which begins streaming on Prime Video in November and will conclude with a…
 • Peter T Chattaway
Box office: Resident Evil reboot outgrosses almost all of the earlier films in its first weekend
Other new releases this week included Daniel and the Fiery Furnace, Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom, and a 40th-anniversary re-release of…
 • Peter T Chattaway
House of David Season 3 starts filming in Greece
The third season of the hit Wonder Project / Prime Video series will see David reaching “his ultimate destiny as King.”
 • Peter T Chattaway
Interview: Matthew & Daniel Kooman on life in Babylon and bringing different Bible stories together in Daniel and the Fiery Furnace
The filmmaking brothers talk about connecting the story of Daniel to the stories of other prophets, how audiences can relate to very different…
 • Peter T Chattaway
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