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July 2014

July 27, 2014

The Bible and Son of God: just how different are they?

Want to see which scenes from The Bible were deleted, shortened, or lengthened in Son...

May 2014

May 29, 2014

The Ascension of Christ in film: literalism, symbolism, etc.

How a dozen films (silent and sound, Hollywood and foreign, live-action and animated) have depicted...

May 16, 2014

Anne Rice’s Christ the Lord finally gets the green light

The film is one of three projects currently in the works that will look at...

April 2014

April 26, 2014

Another TV show on the “lost years” of Jesus in the works

Lifetime has The One. Now Fox has Nazareth.

April 22, 2014

How the movie Heaven Is for Real contradicts the book

Many Christians were involved in the making of this film, but it ignores and even...

April 18, 2014

The Vancouver Sun posts its list of the best Jesus movies

The top five films about Jesus, the top five films with a "metaphorical Christ", and...

April 04, 2014

Be as wise as serpents, but stay away from snakeskins!

Is the snakeskin worn by Noah's father, in Darren Aronofsky's Noah, a Gnostic symbol? Or...

April 01, 2014

No, Noah is not Gnostic. (Say that ten times fast!)

Is Darren Aronofsky's film influenced by Jewish mysticism? Certainly. But does it reflect a Gnostic...

March 2014

March 18, 2014

Two very different Jesus shows heading for television

The TV adaptation of Bill O'Reilly's Killing Jesus is expanded into a mini-series, while the...

February 2014

February 28, 2014

Review: Son of God (dir. Christopher Spencer, 2014)

The producers behind Son of God are attempting something that hasn’t been tried for years,...

February 24, 2014

Darwin Shaw on playing St Peter (and a Lego Bond villain)

The actor who plays Peter in Son of God, which opens this Friday, talks about...

February 16, 2014

The Prodigal Son: three filmed interpretations (and more)

Surprisingly, one of the most popular of Jesus' parables has been filmed only a few...

February 14, 2014

New movie about the young Jesus in the works at Lifetime

The One is described as a "coming-of-age story" set during the "formative years" of Jesus'...

February 09, 2014

The Publican and the Pharisee: four filmed interpretations

Films have interpreted this parable in a variety of ways, from simply showing Jesus recite...

February 07, 2014

Son of God: why is Jesus holding that stone in his hand?

Scenes that communicate their ideas visually, without words, can be open to multiple interpretations --...

January 2014

January 27, 2014

Jesus walks on water in new Son of God clip

The story of Jesus walking on the water appears in three of the four canonical...

December 2013

December 18, 2013

The Bible sequel A.D. gets the green light for spring 2015

The 12-hour follow-up could overlap significantly with this year's hit mini-series.

December 17, 2013

Newsbites: The first-century Jewish zealot edition!

The makers of The Bible are developing a mini-series about the siege of Masada, and...

December 04, 2013

How well have movies depicted Jesus the exorcist?

The History Channel is teaming up with a few horror-movie makers to produce a series...

November 2013

November 25, 2013

Son of God — the trailer is now online

Will audiences that have already seen The Bible on TV and DVD pay to see...

November 05, 2013

Abraham and the Three Visitors: five filmed interpretations

Five films, five different ways to interpret the mysterious story in which Abraham receives three...

November 04, 2013

Bible movie of the week: The Big Fisherman (1959)

One of the more obscure Bible films -- starring Howard Keel as the apostle Peter...

November 01, 2013

The latest attempt to film all four gospels word-for-word

The Lumo Project aims to film all four gospels by 2014. Clips from three of...

October 2013

October 29, 2013

How do you promote a Bible epic when you’re not religious?

Ridley Scott's recent comments about his life-of-Moses movie Exodus are very different from the comments...

October 24, 2013

Ben-Hur remake gets a rewrite, starts shooting in spring

The writer of 12 Years a Slave tackles a different 19th-century book about a free...

October 15, 2013

Quick updates on two of next year’s big Bible movies

Son of God gets a release date, and new Noah details surface thanks to a...

September 2013

September 20, 2013

Newsbites: Quick updates on two upcoming Jesus movies

Timur Bekmambetov "closes a deal" to direct the newest version of Ben-Hur, while the big-screen...

August 2013

August 30, 2013

The Bible producers ponder theatrical distribution offers

Between Noah and Exodus, I've already mentioned here a few times that next year could...

August 19, 2013

Timur Bekmambetov in talks to direct Ben-Hur remake

Will the Bible movie that set the record for most Oscar nominations ever be remade...

August 14, 2013

Newsbites: From Moses to Jesus to the end of the world

Ridley Scott's Exodus has a Pharaoh, the reboot of Left Behind has a new Chloe,...