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Newsbites: Scorsese's Jesus! Netflix's Mary! Mel's Passion! Gabriel's teaser!
Two Jesus movies (from Jesus-movie veterans) might not be quite as ready to go as we thought; Netflix buys a Bible movie; and an anime biblical fantasy…
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Peter T Chattaway
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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Peter T Chattaway
Box office: Deadpool & Wolverine breaks another R-rated record
The superhero action comedy passed The Passion of the Christ this week to become the biggest R-rated movie in North America before adjusting for…
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Peter T Chattaway
Box office: Deadpool & Wolverine breaks all the records – okay, just some of them
Looks like Ryan Reynolds' "merc with the mouth" will finally take the R-rated box-office crown from The Passion of the Christ, possibly as soon as by…
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Peter T Chattaway
Interview: Deaf Missions filmmaker Joseph D. Josselyn on making a Jesus movie in American Sign Language
Josselyn's previous credits, as producer and/or director, include the feature-length The Book of Job (2018) and the biblical short film Uncondemned…
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Peter T Chattaway
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Nicolas Cage to star as Joseph in a horror movie about Jesus' younger years
The Carpenter's Son is reportedly inspired by the Infancy Gospel of Thomas.
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Peter T Chattaway
Flashback: The Passion of the Christ turns 20
A look back at over two decades of my writing about this controversial film – plus some other Bible films that have major anniversaries coming up this…
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Peter T Chattaway
The nitpicker's guide to Journey to Bethlehem – part one
Who the Magi were, what the Star of Bethlehem was, what marriage customs were like, who Herod's son was, and more in the first half-hour of this movie.
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An Animated Moses: The Prince of Egypt
A detailed look at the making, and meaning, of the Bible film at the heart of one of the most revolutionary decades in the history of animation.
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