Peter T. Chattaway
Film Critic at Patheos
Award-winning writer with a special interest in film and faith, and in the Bible movie genre specifically. 'Aqaba is over there. It's only a matter of going.'
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1 week ago |
petertchattaway.substack.com | Peter T. Chattaway
History was made this weekend, as movies about Jesus took three of the top ten slots at the box office for the first time since wide theatrical releases and weekly box-office reporting became standard across the industry roughly half a century ago.
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2 weeks ago |
patheos.com | Peter T. Chattaway
The King of Kings is the first animated film to be released in theatres by Angel Studios, the company behind His Only Son, Sound of Freedom, Cabrini, The Shift, Bonhoeffer, Homestead, and more.
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2 weeks ago |
petertchattaway.substack.com | Peter T. Chattaway
Time for another round-up of trailers, clips, and other videos. First up, an exclusive! Angel Studios gave me a clip from The King of Kings—an animated movie coming out this week, in which Charles Dickens (Kenneth Branagh) tells his son Walter (Roman Griffin Davis) the story of Jesus—to share with you all. In it, Walter watches as the three Magi meet King Herod (Mark Hamill). You can watch the clip above.
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2 weeks ago |
christianitytoday.com | Peter T. Chattaway
The star-studded new kids' movie "The King of Kings" cleverly tells the story of the gospels with a creative framing device. It's not uncommon for animated movies about Jesus to tell their stories from a child's perspective. The Miracle Maker-for my money, still one of the best Jesus movies in any format-is told partly from the point of view of Jairus's daughter.
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2 weeks ago |
petertchattaway.substack.com | Peter T. Chattaway
A few of this week’s highlights:The box-office drought is over: after three months of underperformers and other disappointments, A Minecraft Movie had the biggest three-day weekend of any film since last summer’s Deadpool & Wolverine, and it is currently on track to have one of the 25 biggest opening weekends of all time (and one of the four biggest openings for a film that is neither a sequel nor a remake). The Chosen had two spots in the top ten for the first time ever.
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#TheChosen's current season makes a big, big deal of the idea that the Last Supper was a Passover seder. But the historical Last Supper wasn't. And Jewish scholars largely agree that the modern seder didn't even *exist* until after the time of Jesus. https://t.co/AfRvpij79s
Whoa. Turns out #AMinecraftMovie did even better than estimated, and beat #Barbie to have the top opening of any non-sequel, non-remake, non-MCU-spin-off-featuring-already-established-characters.
#BoxOffice: #AMinecraftMovie has one of the four (maybe even two) biggest openings ever for a non-sequel non-remake, #TheChosen has two entries in the top ten for the first time ever, #SnowWhite has yet another record drop, and more. https://t.co/E9knl7wQPh https://t.co/1FCAqjZQc3
So, I'm guessing #TheChosen is doing a kind of #Memento thing this season? With one story moving forwards in time and another story (the prologues with the Last Supper sequences) moving backwards in time, and the two will meet at the end of the season...?
