Don’t settle for a mysterious island when there’s a whole secret world to be discovered.
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The recent announcement that
Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky is moving forward with a $130 million
adaptation of the story of Noah’s ark comes on the heels of last week’s news that Steven Spielberg is being sought to direct a new epic on the life of Moses for Warner Bros. These are just two of a remarkably high number of Hollywood biblical projects in the works at the moment.
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The Academy Awards are upon us, and the two top contenders for major awards—
The King’s Speech and
True Grit—are both excellent films with significant moral and/or spiritual overtones. In fact, Lisa Respers France at CNN.com’s Religion Blog suggests that many of this year’s Oscar nominees have “
deeply spiritual overtones.”
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Last weekend saw a lopsided box-office collision of two very different types of action hero: In one corner,
The Expendables, an old-fashioned 1980s-style action-fest drenched in testosterone, adrenaline and blood; in the other corner,
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, starring Michael Cera as a geeky slacker with mad video-game-style combat skills.
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UPDATE: Hat tip to
Ross Douthat for highlighting an intriguing recent
NYMag.com piece on Hollywood’s originality problem.
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The long Memorial Day weekend traditionally marks the beginning of the American summer movie season, so for Hollywood studios this past weekend’s the dismal ticket sales are clear cause for concern. Dollarwise, it was the worst Memorial Day weekend at the box office in nine years; in terms of actual bodies in seats, it was the worst in fifteen years.
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Have movie previews gotten to be too much? Parents have been complaining for years about inappropriate coming attractions playing before movies aimed at younger or more innocent viewers—and it’s getting worse.
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