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Box office: F1 races to the top of the chart

The Chosen's Last Supper sequences

House of David Season 2 to premiere this fall... on a new subscription service

Box office: 28 Years Later sets series high, while Elio marks new Pixar low

Newsbites: The Chosen's Joseph! Scorsese's Jesus!

Watch: The disciples meet in a new clip from Light of the World

Box office: How to Train Your Dragon soars to franchise-best opening

Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints gets a second season

Interview: Testament director Paul Syrstad on expanding and modernizing the book of Acts

Newsbites: Testament! The Chosen! House of David! The King of Kings... in Korean!

Box office: Ballerina underperforms with the weakest debut of any John Wick sequel or spin-off

Box office: Karate Kid: Legends can't knock Mission: Impossible out of the #2 spot

The Chosen S5E1 to make its online debut on YouTube next week

Newsbites: The Chosen! Light of the World! The Resurrection of the Christ!

Flashback: The first four Karate Kid movies

Box office: The Lilo & Stitch remake beats the Mission: Impossible sequel in a record-setting weekend

Is The Passion of the Christ getting TWO sequels?

How many Andor actors have also been in Bible movies?

How many movies have depicted Matthias, the apostle who replaced Judas Iscariot?

Watch: Jesus meets Mary Magdalene in a clip from Light of the World

Box office: Final Destination scores the best R-rated horror debut of the decade

Lionsgate to co-produce Mel Gibson's The Resurrection of the Christ

Newsbites: The Carpenter's Son! The Faithful! Solomon! David!

Box office: Thunderbolts* holds well enough in a week with no new major films

Newsbites: The Chosen! The Resurrection of the Christ! The Way of the Wind!

Box office: Thunderbolts* has one of the lowest opening weekends of any summer-launching Marvel movie

Box office: Sinners has a super-good hold, while the top new movie of the week is... Revenge of the Sith?

Watch: The first full trailer for modernized-book-of-Acts series Testament

Bible movies on Netflix: the second-half-of-2024 viewership stats

Box office: Sinners wins Easter with the best opening weekend of any purely original film this decade

Box office: Jesus films take three slots in the top ten for the first time ever

Video round-up: King of Kings! Scorsese! Testament! Light of the World! Zero A.D.!

Box office: A Minecraft Movie has one of the best non-sequel, non-remake openings of all time

Box office: Jason Statham rises, Snow White falls

Video round-up: The Jesus-movie edition!

Box office: Snow White sets record low for live-action Disney-cartoon remakes

Box office: Novocaine tops the slowest weekend in over a year

Box office: Mickey 17 leads another soft weekend

Box office: Last Breath the only major new film in a slow Oscars weekend

Interview: House of David creator Jon Erwin on connecting David and Goliath to the wider biblical universe

Watch: The second trailer for House of David

Box office: Captain America plummets while foreign genre films hold well

Watch: New trailers for The Chosen Season 5, The Last Supper, The King of Kings

The Chosen announces Season 5 theatrical dates, exclusive Prime Video deal

Box office: Captain America is the year's first (North American) blockbuster, but opens at the low end for an MCU sequel

House of David – some of the actors hint at how their characters have been developed

Newsbites: House of David! R&B! Light of the World! Dead Sea Squirrels! Book of Clarence!

Box office: Dog Man tops a weaker-than-expected Super Bowl weekend

Watch: The trailer for The Last Supper

Box office: Dog Man is the year's first big hit

Watch: Goliath stands tall – very, very tall – in the trailer for House of David

Box office: Weak debuts for Mel Gibson, Steven Soderbergh, Angel Studios

Box office: One of Them Days challenges Mufasa for the top spot while the latest Wolf Man reboot flops

What sort of track record do "faith-based" sequels have?

Mel Gibson says he might shoot the sequel to The Passion of the Christ "next year"

Box office: Den of Thieves steals the top spot while Better Man flops

Box office: Mufasa takes the crown as holiday releases hold strong

Film Journal 2025

Mary lingers in a few local Netflix Top 10 lists in week 4

Flashback: the circumcision and baptism of Jesus in film