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Box office: Kraven and the Rohirrim flop hard while musicals and holiday films keep going strong
This week's top ten also included re-releases of the similarly-named Interstellar, with an R, and Interstella, without.
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Box office: Moana 2 breaks another record as specialty releases pack the top ten
This week's list includes an Indian action film, a 10th-anniversary IMAX re-release, an anime TV show, a "faith-based" concert movie, and more.
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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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Did baby Jesus burp, redux.
Director Dallas Jenkins says this scene "might be the key moment of the movie".
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Box office: Red One does well for a movie that was made for streaming, not so well for an action film with a really big budget
Meanwhile, the top movie worldwide this week was Gladiator II, which hasn't even opened in North America yet. (It comes to the US and Canada next week.)
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Did the baby Jesus burp, cry, or get sick?
A few thoughts prompted by 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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Video round-up: Light of the World! The Book of Clarence! The Chosen!
A promo video, a music video, and an upcoming livestream.
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Newsbites: The Chosen universe! The Passion sequel!
Dallas Jenkins and Mel Gibson could both be diving into the Old Testament and bringing the Resurrection to the big screen in the next few years.
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Newsbites: Israeli Jesus! Feminist Mary! Funny Moses! and more!
Updates on The Promised Land and Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints; new trailers; and new soundbites from the makers of The Book of Clarence and…
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