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Co-Author of "Left Behind" to Pen New End-Times Series
Posted: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 | | Source - Industry Brief Zondervan Publishing Company has signed an agreement with attorney Craig Parshall and Tim LaHaye, creator and co-author of the Left Behind series, on which the Left Behind movies are based. Three years after the success of the Left Behind final installment, LaHaye returns to publish Edge of Apocalypse, an apocalyptic epic infused with political intrigue ripped from today's headlines, the first book in a new series called The End. [...Read More] |  | |
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Husband and Wife Team from "In the Blink of an Eye"
Posted: Monday, November 16, 2009 | | Husband and wife David A.R. and Andrea Logan White have been in some films together, but other than the comedy Holyman Undercover, they haven't played lead roles opposite each other until their new thriller In the Blink of an Eye. The producers took advantage of the pair's natural chemistry with each other and cast them as husband and wife. I talked with David and Andrea the other morning about their new film, working together, and the baby they're expecting next year around the end of February. [...Read More] | | |
The Blind Side Through a Glass
Posted: Monday, November 16, 2009 | | by Greg Wright - Contributing Writer Director John Lee Hancock has established an oeuvre that is distinctly Southern… and yet warrants the use of such a hoity-toity word as "oeuvre." After writing and directing his small, independent film debut, Hard Time Romance, his Hollywood coming-of-age was selling his screenplay for A Perfect World, which landed the talents of director Clint Eastwood and star Kevin Costner. He followed that up with the script for Eastwood's version of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and then returned to the director's chair with The Rookie, The Alamo, and this year's The Blind Side. All are films that have a distinct sense of regular, middle-American people caught in extraordinary circumstances—from Texas, to Georgia, to Tennessee.
In Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago for a Warner Bros. press junket for The Blind Side, I had the fortune to sit down for a one-on-one interview with Hancock. [...Read More] | | |
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Mike Nawrocki, VeggieTales Co-Creator, Introduces New Christmas Episode
Posted: Sunday, November 15, 2009 | | by Angela Walker When VeggieTales premiered its new Christmas film St. Nicholas: A Story of Joyful Giving for this summer's Christian retail convention, attendees were surprised to be treated not just to a great new story, but to a moving story about Samaritan's Purse's Operation Christmas Child. Mike Nawrocki, one of the creators of VeggieTales, talked with me about the partnership with Samaritan's Purse, the effect it had on him personally, and the newest vegetable in the crisper drawer. [...Read More] | | |
Tim McGraw is Ready for Football in "The Blind Side"
Posted: Sunday, November 15, 2009 | | by Angela Walker Tim McGraw is a multiple Grammy award winner who recently turned his substantial talent to the craft of acting. He's been in eight movies in the last five years and will begin filming another movie in January of 2010. Married to fellow country music superstar Faith Hill and the father of three children, his schedule is managed by his wife and is always subject to his children's activities.
I met him recently at a press day in Los Angeles and had the opportunity to talk with him in person about his role in The Blind Side, the challenge of balancing the many facets of his career, and his faith. He really is the nice guy he seems onscreen, and even greeted me with a phrase from the NFL theme song: "Are You Ready for Some Football?" [...Read More] | | |
The Real Story of "The Blind Side"
Posted: Sunday, November 15, 2009 | | by Angela Walker Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy and their adoption of Baltimore Ravens' tackle Michael Oher is the inspiration for Warner Brothers Pictures' film The Blind Side, opening in theaters this Friday. Owners of several fast-food restaurants in Memphis, Tennessee, they are the epitome of a charming well-to-do Southern family. What was for them a natural act of kindness and compassion captured the interest of a writer who knew Sean from childhood. His best-selling book based on their story captured the attention of a film producer and the result is The Blind Side. At a press weekend for the movie, I met the Tuohys and they graciously shared some of their journey with me. [...Read More] | | |
The Creative Minds Behind "Faith-Based Marketing"
Posted: Saturday, November 14, 2009 | | With 30+ years of marketing experience between them, Greg Stielstra and Bob Hutchins know the Christian audience. They know it's not a huge analogous blob just waiting for the next Passion of the Christ film to appear in theaters. Their experience in music, film, and book marketing helped them understand the many facets of the Christian market, and from that understanding they wrote Faith-Based Marketing, which should be a textbook for anyone trying to reach Christian consumers. [...Read More] | | |
