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Box office: Michael retakes the top spot, while a horror movie made by a YouTuber exceeds expectations... again!
The Michael Jackson biopic has now grossed over $700mil worldwide, while Curry Barker's Obsession, like Markiplier's Iron Lung, opened to roughly double…
 • Peter T Chattaway
The Old Stories: Moses – episode one
Notes on the House of David spin-off's narrative structure, visual style, historical setting, and use of Exodus. Also: how two Moses movies made 30…
 • Peter T Chattaway
Prophet Joseph — an Iranian series about Joseph of Egypt
This 45-episode series — which fuses Judeo-Christian and Muslim traditions with secular Egyptian history — is one of several "biblical" epics that have…
 • Peter T Chattaway
How The Old Stories: Moses went from concept to streaming in just five months
Series creator Jon Erwin says he came up with the idea for the House of David spin-off just last Christmas, and he shot it in a week with the help of…
 • Peter T Chattaway
The Chosen – season four, episode one
The birth and death of John the Baptist, "unorthodox" marriages throughout Israelite history, the proper making and use of sacred oil, what secular…
 • Peter T Chattaway
Box office: The Devil Wears Prada 2 keeps top spot from challenger Mortal Kombat II
Prada, Kombat, and Michael each grossed over $35 million, making this only the second time this decade that three films grossed that much on the same…
 • Peter T Chattaway
The Old Stories: Moses comes to Prime Video's Wonder Project channel next week
The three-part House of David "companion special" starts streaming May 14.
 • Peter T Chattaway
Biblical horror movie The First Exorcist casts two lead actors, plans to start shooting later this year
The film, first announced two years ago, was originally going to be about a woman seeking a healer for her possessed daughter. Now it's about the man…
 • Peter T Chattaway
Box office: The Devil Wears Prada 2 kicks off summer with one of the best comedy openings ever
The fashion-media sequel also more than doubled the previous best opening for a film with an on-camera Meryl Streep performance.
 • Peter T Chattaway
Newsbites: The Resurrection! The Chosen! House of David! and... Narnia!
Mel Gibson's Passion sequel wraps, The Chosen releases a new Season 6 clip, Ayelet Zurer talks House of David, and Netflix gives The Magician's Nephew a…
 • Peter T Chattaway

April 2026

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