Christian-oriented films opening in theaters and video-on-demand continue to be popular among moviegoers looking for family, faith based movies.
90 Minutes In Heaven and War Room are the latest examples performing strongly in theaters. After opening at number one over the Labor Day holiday, War Room was number 3 at the U.S. box office this past weekend and now stands at $40.5 million worldwide. 90 Minutes In Heaven debuted at number nine with a strong $2.2 million in ticket sales. With everyone trying for another Passion Of The Christ, this demographic of ticket buyers is one the studios can no longer afford to ignore.
Now comes the inspiring and unique story of seven-year-old Jesus Christ and his family as they come to a fuller understanding of His divine nature and purpose in the upcoming film, The Young Messiah.
Set for a March 11, 2016 and with millions of Christians worldwide celebrating Palm Sunday on March 20, 2016, followed...
90 Minutes In Heaven and War Room are the latest examples performing strongly in theaters. After opening at number one over the Labor Day holiday, War Room was number 3 at the U.S. box office this past weekend and now stands at $40.5 million worldwide. 90 Minutes In Heaven debuted at number nine with a strong $2.2 million in ticket sales. With everyone trying for another Passion Of The Christ, this demographic of ticket buyers is one the studios can no longer afford to ignore.
Now comes the inspiring and unique story of seven-year-old Jesus Christ and his family as they come to a fuller understanding of His divine nature and purpose in the upcoming film, The Young Messiah.
Set for a March 11, 2016 and with millions of Christians worldwide celebrating Palm Sunday on March 20, 2016, followed...
- 9/17/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Focus Features will be releasing the upcoming film, The Young Messiah, in theaters nationwide on March 11, 2016.
Ahead of the trailer debut on Thursday, September 17, here’s a first look at the film with this special featurette:
The inspiring and unique story of seven-year-old Jesus Christ and his family as they come to a fuller understanding of His divine nature and purpose.
Directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh (“The Stoning of Soraya M.”) with a screenplay by Cyrus Nowrasteh and Betsy Giffen Nowrasteh.
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Ahead of the trailer debut on Thursday, September 17, here’s a first look at the film with this special featurette:
The inspiring and unique story of seven-year-old Jesus Christ and his family as they come to a fuller understanding of His divine nature and purpose.
Directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh (“The Stoning of Soraya M.”) with a screenplay by Cyrus Nowrasteh and Betsy Giffen Nowrasteh.
Follow the film:
Twitter I Facebook I Instagram
#theyoungmessiah
The post First Look At The Young Messiah appeared first on We Are Movie Geeks.
- 9/15/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Ocean Blue Entertainment, Cj Entertainment, Echo Lake and Ingenious Media are moving ahead with a film adaptation of Anne Rice's novel "Christ the Lord Out of Egypt".
Cyrus Nowrasteh ("The Stoning of Soraya M.") helms the film and wrote the adapted screenplay with his wife Betsy Giffen Nowrasteh.
The fictional story follows a young Jesus Christ who learns the truth about his real identity and his birth as he travels from Egypt to Nazareth.
No cast members have been secured for the adaptation at this time. Shooting begins September 15th at Cinecitta Studios in Rome and on location in Matera, Italy.
Focus Features will distribute the film within the United States
Source: Cj Entertainment...
Cyrus Nowrasteh ("The Stoning of Soraya M.") helms the film and wrote the adapted screenplay with his wife Betsy Giffen Nowrasteh.
The fictional story follows a young Jesus Christ who learns the truth about his real identity and his birth as he travels from Egypt to Nazareth.
No cast members have been secured for the adaptation at this time. Shooting begins September 15th at Cinecitta Studios in Rome and on location in Matera, Italy.
Focus Features will distribute the film within the United States
Source: Cj Entertainment...
- 5/17/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
The Kings of Rome
Le Grisbi Productions and Dcm Productions are teaming for the feature "The Kings Of Rome" from a script by Don MacPherson ("Fleming").
The drama follows an American investigator sent to Rome to collect a debt. There, he gets sucked into a Dantean underworld of corruption, sex and murder that reaches to the highest echelons of the Vatican. [Source: Deadline]
Untitled Alexander Solzhenitsyn Biopic
Primeridian Entertainment has hired Cyrus Nowrasteh to write and direct a feature film based on the life of Soviet dissident and author Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
The company has optioned rights to D.M. Thomas’ biography "Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in His Life." Nowrasteh will write the script with his wife, Betsy Giffen Nowrasteh. [Source: Variety]
Untitled James Gray Project
Rt Features is set to produce an untitled sci-fi thriller from filmmaker James Gray. Gray will direct and co-wrote the original script with "Fringe" scribe Ethan Gross. [Source: Variety]...
Le Grisbi Productions and Dcm Productions are teaming for the feature "The Kings Of Rome" from a script by Don MacPherson ("Fleming").
The drama follows an American investigator sent to Rome to collect a debt. There, he gets sucked into a Dantean underworld of corruption, sex and murder that reaches to the highest echelons of the Vatican. [Source: Deadline]
Untitled Alexander Solzhenitsyn Biopic
Primeridian Entertainment has hired Cyrus Nowrasteh to write and direct a feature film based on the life of Soviet dissident and author Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
The company has optioned rights to D.M. Thomas’ biography "Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in His Life." Nowrasteh will write the script with his wife, Betsy Giffen Nowrasteh. [Source: Variety]
Untitled James Gray Project
Rt Features is set to produce an untitled sci-fi thriller from filmmaker James Gray. Gray will direct and co-wrote the original script with "Fringe" scribe Ethan Gross. [Source: Variety]...
- 5/17/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Primeridian Entertainment has hired Cyrus Nowrasteh to write and direct a film on Soviet dissident and Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Producing will be Primeridian’s Arcadiy Golubovich and Tim O’Hair, who’ll provide equity financing for their first feature under the banner. They’ve optioned D.M. Thomas’ Orwell Prize-winning biography Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century In His Life. Nowrasteh, who last helmed The Stoning Of Soriah M and whose TV work includes The Day Reagan Was Shot and the controversial Path to 9/11, will write the script with wife Betsy Giffen Nowrasteh. They just adapted Anne Rice’s Christ The Lord. “It’s a privilege to tell the courageous story of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,” said the director. “Millions suffered and died in the Soviet labor camps. As a survivor, he resolved to tell the world about it. The power of his pen, despite the suppression of his work and...
- 5/17/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Chicago – Who in the world would want to see this film? It’s as excruciating and appalling as the title promises, complete with simplistic depictions of good and evil. Like the bestselling novel from which it’s based, the film aims to raise global awareness about the Islamic practice of stoning women to death, a fundamentalist tradition that still occurs today. Yet are the filmmakers harboring deeper intentions?
It’s impossible to see “The Stoning of Soraya M.” without thinking of the film that it resembles down to its very title: “The Passion of the Christ.” Both films were produced by Steve McEveety, whose company Mpower Pictures markets films to a decidedly right-wing Christian audience. His rollicking patriotic comedy “An American Carol” reduced suicide bombers to sight gags, while “Stoning” reduces the vast majority of its Islamic characters to a bloodthirsty mob indiscernible from the Jews in “Passion.” Does McEveety...
It’s impossible to see “The Stoning of Soraya M.” without thinking of the film that it resembles down to its very title: “The Passion of the Christ.” Both films were produced by Steve McEveety, whose company Mpower Pictures markets films to a decidedly right-wing Christian audience. His rollicking patriotic comedy “An American Carol” reduced suicide bombers to sight gags, while “Stoning” reduces the vast majority of its Islamic characters to a bloodthirsty mob indiscernible from the Jews in “Passion.” Does McEveety...
- 3/16/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
tMF is introducing a new feature called tMF Indie Spotlight - where we get to focus on some of the most exciting, innovative and thought-provoking independent films soon to be shown on the big screen. In our first post, we're featuring the critically-acclaimed The Stoning of Soraya M.
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Comments SoYun Kim, the PR Interactive director of the Palisades Mediagroup:
This film is so timely especially in light of what is happening in Iran and the need for change. As the title suggests this film is about stoning - the brutal form of punishment usually for women. The intent of the film is to bring awareness that this is still practiced today and hopefully to end it forever.
It already won the Audience Award for best picture at this year's Los Angeles Film Festival and is consistently receiving rave reviews from critics.
I had the...
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Comments SoYun Kim, the PR Interactive director of the Palisades Mediagroup:
This film is so timely especially in light of what is happening in Iran and the need for change. As the title suggests this film is about stoning - the brutal form of punishment usually for women. The intent of the film is to bring awareness that this is still practiced today and hopefully to end it forever.
It already won the Audience Award for best picture at this year's Los Angeles Film Festival and is consistently receiving rave reviews from critics.
I had the...
- 7/8/2009
- The Movie Fanatic
tMF is introducing a new feature called tMF Indie Spotlight - where we get to focus on some of the most exciting, innovative and thought-provoking independent films soon to be shown on the big screen. In our first post, we're featuring the critically-acclaimed The Stoning of Soraya M.
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Comments SoYun Kim, the PR Interactive director of the Palisades Mediagroup:
This film is so timely especially in light of what is happening in Iran and the need for change. As the title suggests this film is about stoning - the brutal form of punishment usually for women. The intent of the film is to bring awareness that this is still practiced today and hopefully to end it forever.
It already won the Audience Award for best picture at this year's Los Angeles Film Festival and is consistently receiving rave reviews from critics.
I had the...
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Comments SoYun Kim, the PR Interactive director of the Palisades Mediagroup:
This film is so timely especially in light of what is happening in Iran and the need for change. As the title suggests this film is about stoning - the brutal form of punishment usually for women. The intent of the film is to bring awareness that this is still practiced today and hopefully to end it forever.
It already won the Audience Award for best picture at this year's Los Angeles Film Festival and is consistently receiving rave reviews from critics.
I had the...
- 7/8/2009
- The Movie Fanatic
tMF is introducing a new feature called tMF Indie Spotlight - where we get to focus on some of the most exciting, innovative and thought-provoking independent films soon to be shown on the big screen. In our first post, we're featuring the critically-acclaimed The Stoning of Soraya M.
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Comments SoYun Kim, the PR Interactive director of the Palisades Mediagroup:
This film is so timely especially in light of what is happening in Iran and the need for change. As the title suggests this film is about stoning - the brutal form of punishment usually for women. The intent of the film is to bring awareness that this is still practiced today and hopefully to end it forever.
It already won the Audience Award for best picture at this year's Los Angeles Film Festival and is consistently receiving rave reviews from critics.
I had the...
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Comments SoYun Kim, the PR Interactive director of the Palisades Mediagroup:
This film is so timely especially in light of what is happening in Iran and the need for change. As the title suggests this film is about stoning - the brutal form of punishment usually for women. The intent of the film is to bring awareness that this is still practiced today and hopefully to end it forever.
It already won the Audience Award for best picture at this year's Los Angeles Film Festival and is consistently receiving rave reviews from critics.
I had the...
- 7/8/2009
- The Movie Fanatic
Actress Shohreh Aghdashloo
Shohreh Aghdashloo Casts No Stones
By
Alex Simon
Iranian actress Shohreh Aghdashloo made history as the first Middle Eastern woman to be nominated for an Academy Award, when she received a Best Supporting Actress nod for her work in House of Sand and Fog (2003), opposite Ben Kingsley. Born in Tehran in 1952 to an upper middle class family of intellectuals, Shohreh spent her youth performing with various avant-garde theater companies during the country’s period of social and artistic freedom under the rule of Iran’s Shah. Most prominent among these groups was the renowned Drama Workshop of Tehran. Based upon her work with the latter group, Shohreh was cast by the two leaders of Iran’s New Wave filmmakers—Abbas Kiarostami and Ali Hatami—to play starring roles in Gozaresh and Sute-Delan, two seminal films of the period, both released in 1977.
The following year, 1978, changed everything with...
Shohreh Aghdashloo Casts No Stones
By
Alex Simon
Iranian actress Shohreh Aghdashloo made history as the first Middle Eastern woman to be nominated for an Academy Award, when she received a Best Supporting Actress nod for her work in House of Sand and Fog (2003), opposite Ben Kingsley. Born in Tehran in 1952 to an upper middle class family of intellectuals, Shohreh spent her youth performing with various avant-garde theater companies during the country’s period of social and artistic freedom under the rule of Iran’s Shah. Most prominent among these groups was the renowned Drama Workshop of Tehran. Based upon her work with the latter group, Shohreh was cast by the two leaders of Iran’s New Wave filmmakers—Abbas Kiarostami and Ali Hatami—to play starring roles in Gozaresh and Sute-Delan, two seminal films of the period, both released in 1977.
The following year, 1978, changed everything with...
- 6/26/2009
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
See new images in from the Roadside Attractions drama "The Stoning of Soraya M.," starring Shohreh Aghdashloo, Jim Caviezel, Mozhan Marnò, Navid Negahban, Ali Pourtash and Parviz Sayyad. The film opens in limited areas on June 26th and is helmed by Cyrus Nowrasteh. Stephen McEveety and John Shepherd produce the film written by Betsy Giffen Nowrasteh and Cyrus Nowrasteh. The talented Aghdashloo was last seen film-wise in "The Nativity Story." The Iranian actress has finished filming "In NorthWood" directed and written by D.W. Brown where she stars with Nick Stahl Olivia Wilde, Dash Mihok and Pruitt Taylor Vince. On TV, she starred in "House of Saddam." In a world of secrecy, corruption and injustice, a single courageous voice can tell a true story that changes everything.
- 6/22/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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Cinematical has just received this new, exclusive poster for Cyrus Nowrasteh's The Stoning of Soraya M . Based on a best-selling book by the late French / Iranian journalist Freidoune Sahebjam, the film dramatizes a real-life incident in Iran in which a woman was stoned to death.
Jim Cavieziel (The Passion of the Christ) plays Sahebjam, whose car breaks down in a remote Iranian village in 1986, during the time that Ayatollah Khomeini was in power. Sahebjam is approached by Zahra (Shohreh Aghdashloo, House of Sand and Fog) who tells him of a horror story that began when her niece Soraya (Mozhan Marnò) entered into an arranged marriage with a man who proved to be an abusive tyrant and ended with an innocent woman killed by a hail of stones. Director Nowrasteh co-wrote the screenplay with his wife, Betsy Giffen Nowrasteh, and the filmmakers'...
Cinematical has just received this new, exclusive poster for Cyrus Nowrasteh's The Stoning of Soraya M . Based on a best-selling book by the late French / Iranian journalist Freidoune Sahebjam, the film dramatizes a real-life incident in Iran in which a woman was stoned to death.
Jim Cavieziel (The Passion of the Christ) plays Sahebjam, whose car breaks down in a remote Iranian village in 1986, during the time that Ayatollah Khomeini was in power. Sahebjam is approached by Zahra (Shohreh Aghdashloo, House of Sand and Fog) who tells him of a horror story that began when her niece Soraya (Mozhan Marnò) entered into an arranged marriage with a man who proved to be an abusive tyrant and ended with an innocent woman killed by a hail of stones. Director Nowrasteh co-wrote the screenplay with his wife, Betsy Giffen Nowrasteh, and the filmmakers'...
- 4/2/2009
- by Peter Martin
- Cinematical
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