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December 2023

December 22, 2023

Which Bible movies are getting the most views on Netflix?

Netflix released a huge list of its 18,000 most-watched shows. Noah and The Chosen both...

May 2022

May 24, 2022

Noah and Moses reunite for Thor: Love and Thunder!

Russell Crowe and Christian Bale, who co-starred in 3:10 to Yuma before starring in Noah...

April 2022

April 16, 2022

The Chosen and its unorthodox marketing campaign

Can demons be saved? An edgy ad campaign for the popular life-of-Jesus series is surprisingly...

December 2021

December 10, 2021

Saudi Arabian studio making a movie about Noah’s Ark

The film will explore what would happen if the Ark was discovered by the Red...

December 18, 2018

20 things about The Prince of Egypt, which turns 20 today.

Detailed notes on the making, and legacy, of the first successful Bible epic since the...

October 2016

October 13, 2016

Watch: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story has an actual space battle — and goes to Iceland — in its newest trailer

In which an actor from one of 2014's big Bible epics visits the location of...

September 2016

September 23, 2016

“Hollywood’s highest-ranking Evangelical Christian” — and a key figure in the Bible-movie revival — leaves Paramount

Rob Moore was vice chairman at Paramount Pictures when the studio produced both Noah and...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

Is Ben-Hur in box-office trouble?

Early tracking indicates that Ben-Hur might play like a "faith-based" film -- but it was...

June 2016

June 13, 2016

Noah and Exodus: Gods and Kings — the scholars speak!

Two collections of scholarly essays analyzing these films are due to come out in the...

May 2016

May 27, 2016

X-Men: Apocalypse and the legend of Nimrod’s arrows

A scene in the middle of the new X-Men movie explicitly references an apocryphal legend...

May 17, 2016

Review: X-Men: Apocalypse (dir. Bryan Singer, 2016)

As befits a film with the word “Apocalypse” in its title, there is a lot...

May 16, 2016

Russell Crowe still supports Darren Aronofsky’s Noah

It has been two years since the film came out, and the controversies it engendered...

March 2016

March 25, 2016

Noah turns two, and here’s a sneak peek at a line-by-line commentary I’ve been working on

In which I look at what the film’s sources are (both canonical and non-canonical), what...

February 2016

February 23, 2016

Watch: Gerard Butler confronts Geoffrey Rush miles above a flat Earth in the first clip from Gods of Egypt

What does this clip have in common with Proyas's earlier films, and why does it...

January 2016

January 29, 2016

Watch: The first full trailers for the new Of Kings & Prophets

This is at least the second Bible movie in which Ray Winstone plays a king...

January 14, 2016

Noah props and costumes to be auctioned off next week!

Over 300 items will be on the block.

January 11, 2016

Darren Aronofsky’s next film will star Jennifer Lawrence

The currently untitled film will be Aronofsky's first since Noah. How have other Bible-movie makers...

December 2015

December 01, 2015

Darren Aronofsky on Noah and the environment in Paris

The filmmaker, currently in Paris for the climate talks, recently talked about the "very important...

October 2015

October 25, 2015

Adam in Eden, and his glowing spiritual loincloth

Sometimes, in religious art, a person's face or entire body will glow to signify his...

October 12, 2015

A new, “accurate” Noah movie will apparently consist almost entirely of scenes that aren’t in the Bible

Ironically, a Christian film that appears to have been launched in response to Darren Aronofsky's...

July 2015

July 20, 2015

Noah: a list of the film’s deleted scenes, with pictures

Darren Aronofsky's film came out on Blu-Ray and DVD one year ago this month. Here's...

March 2015

March 19, 2015

Supercuts explore key visual motifs in Aronofsky’s films

One looks at how Noah, Black Swan and other films have focused on the eyes...

March 15, 2015

The chronological Noah: an illustrated integration of the three origin stories in Darren Aronofsky’s film

Darren Aronofsky's Noah is a "midrash" that fills in some of the gaps in the...

February 2015

February 04, 2015

Watch: A new ILM video on the visual effects of Noah

The film has been nominated for a Visual Effects Society award; the winner will be...

February 03, 2015

Exodus: Gods and Kings: Blu-Ray bonus features revealed

Plus an update on the film's global box-office performance.

January 2015

January 04, 2015

Noah, Exodus: Gods and Kings make the Razzies shortlist

For some reason, the Bible movie that got better reviews has more worst-of-the-year nominations.

December 2014

December 22, 2014

Sound editors give Aronofsky a special award + interview round-up with the sound editors and designers of Noah

The sound design was just as important to Aronofsky's film as the visuals and the...

December 19, 2014

Should Bible movies be relegated to the Christian ghetto?

Do Bible movies have to be made by Christians (or observant Jews, for that matter)...

December 15, 2014

Watch: Noah is one of seven films shortlisted for the Oscar for best makeup & hairstyling (for humans and animals)?

Is the Academy taking the makeup on the quasi-fantastical animals into account, too?

December 13, 2014

The character from the biblical story of Moses who appeared in Noah but not in Exodus: Gods and Kings

How a minor character from the story of Moses ended up in the story of...