Peter T. Chattaway

1 week ago | petertchattaway.substack.com | Peter T. Chattaway

Life’s been busy, so I haven’t kept my news alerts as up-to-date as I’d like, but here’s a quick round-up regarding three very different Jesus movies. Many people discovered The Chosen when series creator Dallas Jenkins started hosting livestreams of Season 1 during the Covid lockdowns in 2020. (At that time, the show’s first few episodes had already been out for almost a year.) The next three seasons made their online debuts through similar global livestreams.

1 week ago | petertchattaway.substack.com | Peter T. Chattaway

It’s a tradition older than the Marvel Cinematic Universe: for most of the past 20 years, the first weekend of the summer movie season has been led by a Marvel superhero flick. The roots of this tradition go back to the original Spider-Man, which came out the first week of May 2002 and was the first movie ever to gross $100 million in a single weekend.

2 weeks ago | petertchattaway.substack.com | Peter T. Chattaway

A few of this week’s highlights:Sinners had one of the best holds of any major film that didn’t get a second-week boost from one of the major holiday seasons. Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith had the 2nd-best opening of any Star Wars re-release, behind the 1997 edition of the original film. The Accountant 2 had the best opening of any non-superhero Ben Affleck movie since… well, since the original The Accountant back in 2016.

2 weeks ago | petertchattaway.substack.com | Peter T. Chattaway

Three weeks after releasing the teaser, Angel Studios has released the first full trailer for Testament, the series that sets the book of Acts in an alternate version of the present day—and with it, they have also announced the show’s release date: June 8, which, appropriately enough, is Pentecost this year. You can watch the trailer here:Among other things, this trailer appears to reveal or allude to:The empty tomb (Mark 16:1-8, Matthew 28:1-8, Luke 24:1-12, John 20:1-12).

3 weeks ago | petertchattaway.substack.com | Peter T. Chattaway

Previous stats: Jan-Jun 2023 | Jul-Dec 2023 | Jan-Jun 2024I’ve been busy the past few weeks, so I missed this when it was first announced, but Netflix released another “data dump” in late February, listing all the films and TV shows that were watched on their platform at least 100,000 times within a six-month period. This is the fourth such “data dump” that Netflix has released, and this time, the period it covered was July to December 2024.