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Pinnacle Peak Pictures will kick off talks at EFM next week on Forty-Seven Days With Jesus which features cast members from faith-based series The Chosen, whose latest episodes currently rank second at the North American box office.

The retelling of the story of Jesus’s final days on Earth will open in the US on March 11 in more than 800 theatres.

Yoshi Barrigas and Catherine Lidstone (The Chosen) star alongside Cameron Arnett as Pontius Pilate, while Joshua Triplett plays the disciple Peter.

Emilio Palame and David M. Gutel co-directed Forty-Seven Days With Jesus from Gutel’s screenplay. Palame, Donald Nguyen, and...

Pinnacle Peak Pictures will kick off talks at EFM next week on Forty-Seven Days With Jesus which features cast members from faith-based series The Chosen, whose latest episodes currently rank second at the North American box office.

The retelling of the story of Jesus’s final days on Earth will open in the US on March 11 in more than 800 theatres.

Yoshi Barrigas and Catherine Lidstone (The Chosen) star alongside Cameron Arnett as Pontius Pilate, while Joshua Triplett plays the disciple Peter.

Emilio Palame and David M. Gutel co-directed Forty-Seven Days With Jesus from Gutel’s screenplay. Palame, Donald Nguyen, and...

Reel Big Studios, Pinnacle Peak Pictures (God’s Not Dead) and Fathom Events will be releasing Forty-Seven Days with Jesus at 800 theaters on March 11, 12 and 14 during the Lenten season.

The pic stars The Chosen’s Yoshi Barrigas as Joseph Burdon and Catherine Lidstone as Juliana Burdon. When the Burdons attend a reunion at Poppa and Nonna’s ranch, they realize just how disconnected their family has become. Facing marital hiccups, teenaged angst and Poppa’s health hurdles, the adults decide to share Poppa’s enchanting ‘Forty-Seven Days’ story with the kids, transporting us back in time to see the miracles of Jesus’ final 47 days on Earth. When an unexpected business opportunity places Joseph at a crossroads, his commitment to his family is tested. Can the Burdons pull together in the face of uncertainty? With Poppa’s tale as their guide, they embark on a journey towards unity and rediscover the true essence of walking in faith.

Syfy, Tongal and Wattpad’s Story To Screen – A Digital Pilot Project contest has picked a winner. Kristen Brancaccio has been selected by fans to adapt Mikaela Bender’s viral sci-fi thriller Expiration Date for the screen. Brancaccio won the contest with her short Resistance, which puts a high-stakes spy thriller spin on the concept.

The contest, announced in July, allowed fans to vote on their favorite take on the story from three different trailers by different filmmakers, with the biggest vote-getter landing a chance to make a full digital pilot.

Created by Bender (Expiration Date Duology), Expiration Date was one of the most popular sci-fi stories on Wattpad in 2016 and 2017, with more than 16 million reads to date. The sci-fi thriller is set in a future where all members of society are given a certain amount of time to live at birth — represented by an imprint in their arms (think...

Matt Damon has apologised for offence caused by controversial statements he made about diversity in his show Project Greenlight.

The star said that they were "part of a much broader conversation about diversity in Hollywood".

The show, which sees Damon and Ben Affleck give a filmmaker the opportunity to direct a $3 million feature film, drew attention because of comments Damon made to Dear White People producer Effie Brown, who was advising on the programme.

In a segment, Brown remarked that she was more in favour of directing team Leo Kei Angelos and Kristen Brancaccio. Producer and writer Peter Farrelly says that he likes the two, though he remarks that he doesn't think that they will work.

Brown then asks other panelists to take into consideration how they treat the lead character in the movie, who is a black prostitute.

"I just would want to urge people, whoever this director is,...

Matt Damon has come under fire on social media for an exchange that aired during Sunday night’s season premiere of HBO docu-series “Project Greenlight.” In choosing a director for a comedy with a black prostitute as a main character, Damon and his fellow producers – including Ben Affleck, the Farrelly brothers and “Dear White People producer Effie Brown – debated the finalists they had to choose from. Brown lobbied for the directing duo of Leo Angelos & Kristen Brancaccio, an Asian man and white woman, arguing they could bring a diverse perspective to the script. Also Read: Fall TV Preview: 126 New...

The Belgian film Cub validates the fear some of us have of spending the night in the woods. Cub on Blu-ray and DVD will hit stores on August 18th. Also: theatrical and digital release details for The Diabolical, HollyShorts Film Festival 2015 lineup, and Manos: The Hands of Fate soundtrack on vinyl.

Cub: Artsploitation Films will release Cub on Blu-ray and DVD on August 18th. Directed by Jonas Govaerts from a screenplay he wrote with Roel Mondelaers, Cub stars Maurice Luijten, Titus De Voogdt, Stef Aerts, Evelien Bosmans, and Jan Hammenecker.

"This dark, bloody, imaginative fairy tale about a camping trip that turns into deadly carnage draws on such influences as Lord of the Rings, Friday the 13th, and The Devil’s Backbone. The story follows 12-year-old outcast Sam who, along with his troop of cub scouts and their teenage supervisors, camp in woods rumored to house a mysterious and deadly werewolf.

Behind the scenes of The Ideal And you thought that the sorority pledges of the The Initiation or Sorority House Massacre had it tough! Or that school was hellish for the students in Cry_Wolf. These days, students now have to deal with a teacher who is suffering from murderous tendencies in "The Ideal" from director Wes Tomasz Ciesla and starring newcomer Dennis Brito along with Kristen Brancaccio and Ivan Perez.

In The Ideal, for Julia and Alexander it was just a high school summer job. It was the chance to earn money and work with eccentric, but popular history teacher, Mr. Zenidro. However, something else awaits them in the empty, yet mysterious school building. Mr. Zenidro leads them to reckon with the hidden past. As the past and present begin to blur together so does sanity and madness. What will Julia and Alexander learn as they struggle in the...