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When it comes to Bible stories, Hollywood likes to play favorites. The upcoming Christian Bale-starring epic Exodus: Gods and Kings will be the latest in a long line of high-profile onscreen adaptations of the Old Testament's Moses story, including Charlton Heston’s Ten Commandments and the 1998 animated hit Prince of Egypt. Earlier this year, Darren Aronofsky’s Noah became the third screen adaptation of the Biblical Noah’s Ark story in the last 15 years. The many films about the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus merit their own category page on Wikipedia. But when’s the last time anybody made »

- Ashley Fetters

1 hour ago

Richard Linklater's Boyhood, the film he quietly made with Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette, and a cast of unknowns over a span of 12 years, is having a difficult time saying goodbye. Since it debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January, the ambitious cinematic experiment about Mason (Ellar Coltrane) and his family has become one of the year's most beloved films. It's one of the favorites for year-end awards, and with the film now available on Digital HD, IFC Films has posted an 11-minute featurette, The Making of Boyhood, on Hulu. »

- Jeff Labrecque

2 hours ago

That crosshatch construction is familiar, though we haven't seen it for a long time. And when we do see it, we tend to picture it in smoldering ruins—not gleaming, strong, and new. Then there's the young man standing atop those 110 stories, stepping to the edge, balancing precariously on an I-beam that juts out into the void. This is the first glimpse we've seen of The Walk—a new drama from director Robert Zemeckis, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt—and it might be easy to misconstrue the plot from these few brief moments. The movie tells a true story, but it's not »

- Anthony Breznican

2 hours ago

When the trades announced last February that Albert Nobbs director Rodrigo García was making a small indie starring Ewan McGregor in dual roles, his characters were described as a "holy man and a demon." But unveiled in yesterday's announcement of Premieres for the 2015 Sundance Film Festival were the more specific details for Last Days in the Desert that said holy man and demon are actually Jesus and the Devil, "in an imagined chapter from his 40 days of fasting and praying in the desert." In the film, Yeshua—Hebrew for Jesus—is tempted by evil while alone in the wilderness. "You »

- Jeff Labrecque

15 hours ago

• Edgar Ramirez is in final talks for Joy. David O. Russell is directing the biopic, which also stars Jennifer Lawrence and Robert De Niro. The film is based on the true story of Joy Mangano (Lawrence), the inventor/entrepreneur behind the Miracle Mop. De Niro will play Mangano's father, with Ramirez as her then husband, Tony. Annie Mumolo wrote the script for the film. [THR] • Natalie Portman has left discussions for the female lead in Universal's Steve Jobs biopic, Jobs. Danny Boyle is directing the film. Aaron Sorkin adapted Walter Isaacson's biography for the screen. It stars Michael Fassbender as »

- C. Molly Smith

19 hours ago

If the Sundance Film Festival has an unofficial spirit animal, it's James Franco. In recent years, the crinkly-grinned polymath-movie star/filmmaker/artist/perennial grad student has become a fixture at North America's ranking showcase for independent film. He's come as an actor in such films as Howl and Lovelace and as director of Interior. Leather Bar and the short film Herbert White, but also as a producer of Kink, a 2013 documentary about Bdsm porn. Franco even enacted a meta-art piece called Three's Company: A Drama—transgressively riffing on the '70s sitcom—at the festival's New Frontier program in 2011. With »

- Chris Lee

21 hours ago

Letting go of something you created can't be easy, but it must be especially difficult for someone who conjures an entire galaxy in his imagination, only to one day release his grip and leave it in the hands of another generation. Page Six recently caught up with George Lucas and asked what he thought of that 88-second teaser trailer for J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the first film to be made from the franchise without its creator's involvement. His response has fans gasping like Jabba with a chain around his neck: "I don’t know anything about it. »

- Anthony Breznican

22 hours ago

Guardians of the Galaxy and Mockingjay might be the year's biggest movies, but 2014, in many important ways, has also been the year of Boyhood. Since it debuted in January at the Sundance Film Festival to rhapsodic reviews, Richard Linklater's 12-years-in-the-making story of a boy (Ellar Coltrane) and his family has forged a deep bond with audiences and critics alike. From Sundance, it went to Berlin in February, where it won several awards, and then reveled in a euphoric homecoming at March's SXSW Festival in Austin. It opened in July in the heart of blockbuster season, and is still humming along 22 weeks later, »

- Jeff Labrecque

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