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Newsbites: Testament! The Chosen! House of David! The King of Kings... in Korean!
Two New Testament shows launch new seasons online; the Wall Street Journal looks at the money behind shows like House of David; and a Squid Game co-star…
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Peter T Chattaway
Box office: Last Breath the only major new film in a slow Oscars weekend
Meanwhile, the Oscars themselves gave most of their awards -- including all the highest-profile ones -- to films that haven't even cracked $16 million…
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Peter T Chattaway
Interview: House of David creator Jon Erwin on connecting David and Goliath to the wider biblical universe
The filmmaker, whose credits include I Can Only Imagine and Jesus Revolution, talks about digging into "the mythology of the giants" and exploring the…
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Peter T Chattaway
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Box office: Captain America plummets while foreign genre films hold well
Also: The Monkey was the week's biggest new film, while The Unbreakable Boy had one of the lowest opening weekends to date for the "faith-based" studio…
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Box office: Moana 2 sails into the American Thanksgiving record books
Also: Wicked would have had the 2nd-best Thanksgiving of all time if it hadn't been for that Disney cartoon; and Gladiator II is now Denzel Washington's…
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Box office: Wicked, Gladiator II set new records
Also: "faith-based" audiences turned out for Bonhoeffer and the third weekend of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever.
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Box office: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever is one of the bigger recent "faith-based" hits
The Dallas Jenkins-directed adaptation of the 1972 children's novel exceeded expectations, as did the religion-themed horror film Heretic.
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Interview: Andrew Erwin on producing The Best Christmas Pageant Ever and other faith-based films with cross-over appeal
The co-founder of Kingdom Story Company has also produced and/or directed faith-based hits like Jesus Revolution, Unsung Hero, and I Can Only Imagine.
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Peter T Chattaway
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Box office: Joker 2 has the worst debut of any major Batman or Joker movie
Also: White Bird, a sort of sequel to 2017's Wonder, had the worst opening weekend of any non-documentary released under the "faith-based" Kingdom Story…
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Newsbites: House of David! Carpenter's Son! Judas' Gospel! Noah's Ark 2!
The upcoming Amazon series about Saul and David may be pumping up the action; Nicolas Cage is attacked by bees; a revisionist Judas film gets a…
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Peter T Chattaway
House of David reveals its lead actors
The Amazon Prime Video series, now shooting in Greece, will star at least four veterans of the Bible-movie genre (one of whom is playing the same role…
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Box office: Furiosa, Garfield duke it out in worst Memorial Day weekend since 1995
Also: The Fall Guy had the best hold in the top ten despite already being available on PVOD, and Sight had Angel Studios' lowest opening yet.
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