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Agora finally has an American distributor, and the film may have its box-office success in its native Spain to thank for that. Directed by Alejandro Amenábar, the film, which depicts the growing clash between the female philosopher Hypatia and the " unstoppable surge of the Christians " in ...
Celebrities
The Sunday Mail reports that Jeremy Irons is going to star in The End Time , a film about St. Columba , the Irish monk who brought Christianity to Scotland in the 6th century. The film will be directed by Norman Stone, whose credits include the original C.S. Lewis biopic Shadowlands ...
Movies
Remember how Anne Rice's Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt was going to be turned into a film a few years ago? And how the producers sponsored a special section on religion and the movies in Variety magazine? And how Rice and the producers eventually parted ways ? The Boston Globe ran a ...
Celebrities
Anne Hathaway
Here are the figures for the past weekend, arranged from those that owe the highest percentage of their take to the Canadian box office to those that owe the lowest. Law Abiding Citizen -- CDN $8,580,000 -- N.AM $67,326,000 -- 12.7% The Men Who Stare at Goats -- CDN $2,440,000 -- N.AM ...
Movies
A Christmas Carol
Paranormal Activity
Push
I finally caught up with the bonus features on the Blu-Ray editions of the last few Star Trek movies this week, and one sentence kind of jumped out at me. It comes courtesy of Michael Fincke , an astronaut who appears on the Star Trek: First Contact (1996) disc via the featurette ...
Movies
Star Trek
Two years ago , I linked to a video (and a now-defunct website) which put forth the notion that too many movies were using the Trajan font in their posters and credit sequences. Now, Adrian Curry at The Auteurs says a number of posters produced over the past few years have begun to rely upon ...
Movies
Little Miss Sunshine
Here are the figures for the past weekend, arranged from those that owe the highest percentage of their take to the Canadian box office to those that owe the lowest. Law Abiding Citizen -- CDN $7,510,000 -- N.AM $60,704,335 -- 12.4% Couples Retreat -- CDN $9,470,000 -- N.AM $95,680,555 -- ...
Movies
Astro Boy
A Christmas Carol
Where the Wild Things Are
Paranormal Activity
Here are the figures for the past weekend, arranged from those that owe the highest percentage of their take to the Canadian box office to those that owe the lowest. Zombieland -- CDN $8,530,000 -- N.AM $71,181,556 -- 12.0% Law Abiding Citizen -- CDN $6,150,000 -- N.AM $51,485,280 -- 11.9% ...
Movies
Zombieland
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Astro Boy
Where the Wild Things Are
Paranormal Activity
Bits of this scene were included in the trailers for last summer's Star Trek reboot , but the scene itself was ultimately cut from the film. Star Trek comes out on DVD and Blu-Ray November 17.
Movies
Star Trek
Here are the figures for the past weekend, arranged from those that owe the highest percentage of their take to the Canadian box office to those that owe the lowest. Zombieland -- CDN $8,020,000 -- N.AM $67,308,000 -- 11.9% Law Abiding Citizen -- CDN $4,530,000 -- N.AM $40,318,000 -- 11.2% ...
Movies
Zombieland
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Astro Boy
Where the Wild Things Are
Paranormal Activity
This news is about a month old now, but better late than never. Variety reports that Rising India -- which, despite its name, is based in the United States, apparently -- is teaming up with Unified Pictures to produce and distribute their animated version of Noah's Ark , the development of ...
Celebrities
Variety
First the Pixar mascot finds himself at the centre of a lawsuit over Disney's unauthorized use of the Luxo brand in its merchandising. And now this . It's a sad, sad day.
Movies
Disney Studios
Three years ago, Bruce Marchiano -- who played Jesus in two Visual Bible productions in the early '90s and is apparently doing so again in the animated film The Lion of Judah -- announced that he hoped to finance a new word-for-word adaptation of the Gospel of John by persuading 250,000 ...
Movies
Here are the figures for the past weekend, arranged from those that owe the highest percentage of their take to the Canadian box office to those that owe the lowest. The Invention of Lying -- CDN $1,970,000 -- N.AM $15,497,164 -- 12.7% Zombieland -- CDN $7,100,000 -- N.AM $60,640,317 -- 11.7% ...
