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Featured Releases
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 Silver Linings Playbook
Rom-com To Believe In Elizabeth Leitch
The end of Silver Linings Playbook might look like any other rom-com. But, in the end, its story and its characters are the kind that make you actually believe in happy endings and hopeful new beginnings-even if the stories that unfold in our lives aren't exactly the ones we originally set out to live.
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Video Review
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 Lincoln
Yes, I Found A Flick to Love Dice
There is so much to like about this movie... and we can start with performances. And we can start with Tommy Lee Jones there! But if you're thinking you might someday become the greatest actor ever... well, forget it. Daniel Day Lewis has got that part nailed.
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Featured Interview: David Magee
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 Scripting as Visual Work
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t's never easy to adapt a book for the movie screen, but Life of Pi had some particularly big challenges. We talked with the screenwriter about what it took to make it happen.
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Featured Preview
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 Les Misèrables
Fantine Speaks Mark Sommer
Fans of Les Misèrables and Anne Hathaway will not want to miss this. Hathaway, who plays Fantine in the upcoming movie, was interviewed for Vogue magazine. (She is featured in the December issue.) She gives some insights about the movie and her preparation for her role.
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News About What's in the Works for Film and Faith Managing Editor Greg Wright
 Sherwood Pictures Since the post-production phase of Facing the Giants, Sherwood Pictures has enjoyed an unbelievably profitable alliance with Provident, a division of Sony's motion picture property. While negotiating music rights for the film with Provident, Sherwood's production team screened a rough cut of Giants... and the rest, as they say, is history.
Provident Music took the film to their corporate ownership and a brilliant alliance was formed. Finishing funds were procured to polish the Kendricks' little faith-and-football film, and the investment returned a handsome dividend for Sony. Fireproof followed... and we all know how that turned out. Then Courageous. Ka-ching! And the films retained their Gospel integrity as well. Win-win, right? Well, the corporate behemoth is now facing its own giant challenges. As just reported at CNN Money, "Fitch Ratings downgraded Sony and Panasonic debt to junk status Thursday and said the ailing Japan-based consumer electronic makers both needed radical restructuring to improve their prospects..."
Also from The Pipeline: Abel's Field
As dark times lure Seth toward desperate measures, the reluctant Abel may be the one person who can point him back toward the light.
Welcome To Paradise
Crystal Bernard (Wings), Brad Stine (CHRISTMAS WITH A CAPITAL C), and Brian Dennehy (THE ULTIMATE GIFT, COCOON), star in this wholesome, light-hearted feature that reminds us how love and acceptance go a long way in showing our faith.
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Fantasy Editor Mark Sommer
Stay Tuned for More Hobbit CoverageDevin Brown
Tolkien's faith had an impact on his fiction, not in a light, superficial way, but in a fundamental, underlying way. Whether you are reading The Hobbit or planning on going to see the first of the three films this December, here are five things to watch for. Be sure to check out the newly-released posters and banners in the Photo Gallery this week, too! Plus, we've got the new TV spots.
In The News
Can't get enough of Howard Shore's themes from The Lord of the Rings? Or just like to listen to some easy listening music once in awhile? This video from The Piano Guys is for you. This is the first in a series of articles planned for each Thursday, to continue as long as needed. This week: Tolkien's grandson and great-grandson speak, lawsuit against Warner Bros., the animal safety controversy, and more. The Thanksgiving episode of Happy Hobbit from TheOneRing.net has arrived. Click through to view. Whenever Boyens speaks about Jackson's Middle-earth franchise, my ears perk up. What she has to say is probably more important that what Fran Walsh, or even Jackson himself, has to say. At least that's how I view it. The Lord of the Rings Project began as "an attempt to place every character in J.R.R Tolkien's fictional universe in a family tree." The website has also evolved to include an interactive timeline of events. A great site for those with a geeky interest in Tolkien's world. Waikato University in New Zealand, in collaboration with Ryerson University of Toronto, Canada, is conducting an extensive online survey concerning audience expectations regarding The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Click through to find out how to participate. Freeman on why the story deserves three films: "I just know that their reasons for it are artistic. God knows, they don't need more money, unless they want to buy the moon, but artistically they want room and space for it to breathe and to tell the story as well as they can."
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Indie Focus
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 Gottfried Helnwein
and the Dreaming Child
Disturbing Art Darrel Manson
Helnwein's vision of how to visually present this opera has created a world that many may find hard to look at. I expect that is exactly his goal. It should be hard to look at the way children are so easily discarded or forgotten..
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New on Home Video
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 Prep and Landing
Plus Scooby Doo, Transformers Prime, The Watch, and Zorro HJ Staff Roundup
Now on Home Video. This week's offerings include some more holiday cheer, and a few movies to consider on a cold Fall afternoon.
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